Kendo is a digital venture focused on bringing real-world yield to blockchain capital markets and DeFi protocols. The solutions are secured by tokenising commodity trade finance assets - energy, metals, agri.

The T3i Partner Network is a global collective of industry-leading specialists in trade, treasury and technology with a focus on digital innovation

Strategic advisory services including venture building, international business development (B2B), executive leadership, innovation, digital platforms, capital raising.Currently advising several startup ventures in digital assets and supply chain platforms.

MineHub is a B2B platform that is driving the digital transformation of global mining and metals supply chains, making them more efficient, secure, and transparent. MineHub is forever changing the way high-value commodities like copper, steel, and aluminium are bought, sold, moved, and financed.- Developed MineHub from an initial concept into a publicly listed company with a world class team, operations and customers in key commodity hubs like Singapore, London, Shanghai, and Tokyo.- Engaged and forged strategic partnerships with the largest corporations in the mining & metals industry to develop and launch a digital platform for the industry- Established a global blockchain-based infrastructure compliant with data regulations in complex jurisdictions like China.- Raised capital to finance the mission from leading institutions, VC and HNWI, and completed an IPO on the TSXV exchange in Canada.- Completed a strategic acquisition that accelerated MineHub’s ecosystem coverage in the mining and metals industry, added experienced talent to the team, and more than doubled the revenue base.- Taken the company from zero to one, and then from one to ten, and put it on the path to become the leading digital platform for mining and metals supply chains.MineHub is one of the most mature Web3 platforms that is being adopted by large corporations in day-to-day operations.

Led the innovation activities for ING's trade and commodity business, including the Easy Trading Connect initiative, which was focused on building blockchain-based platform ventures to digitalise the commodity trading and financing markets.Initiated and drove industry defining blockchain experiments in energy markets (crude oil, with Mercuria) and soft commodities (soybeans, with Louis Dreyfus). Project director for the consortium that created VAKT, responsible for defining the strategy, coordinating execution and directing the consortium towards a funded and incorporated "blue chip startup". VAKT is backed by leading oil & gas companies like Shell, BP, Equinor, Mercuria, Gunvor, and Koch Industries.Initiator of the komgo project - a Geneva-based platform for commodity trade finance solutions, backed by 10 large commodity banks and 5 corporates.

Responsible for setting up a new product business line for ING - Structured Inventory Products aka "commodity repo's". New in the ING Wholesale Bank and the Commodity Finance business. This product provides liquidity to commodity traders through ownership based structures. The new business unit was already generating revenue with key clients during trial stages.Responsible for initiating and executing a program to drive standardisation across the global trade & commodity finance franchise, including the alignment of processes and migrating the branches to a common systems platform.Piloted and rolled out a common platform (Triquesta) to the main Trade & Commodity Finance branches in the Netherlands and Asia.Responsible for end-to-end realisation of business and IT changes in wholesale lending. Delivered key solution components for the Lending Transformation Program, including core LoanIQ interfaces to the finance and trade systems.Delivered results across the wholesale bank - Lending, Financial Markets, Operations, Treasury, Finance & IT. In Prince2 and Agile contexts.

Multiple technology ventures in Indonesia, supplying both local and global markets. Key activities included a professional services firm implementing Geographical Informations Systems for local utilities, as well as a mobile phone app development company, working for clients in Europe and Australia / NZ.

Strategy, definition and initiation of a Groupwide change programSet up of the enterprise change portfolio management organisationStrategy and setup support for the Group PMOQuality Assurance framework definition and setup.

Program manager responsible for delivering a successful post-merger integration of the wholesale banking divisions of ANZ and National Bank of New Zealand. No revenue attrition, no unexpected client attrition, delivered to plan and budget.Design, strategy and management of setup of the ANZ National Bank enterprise change portfolio management organisation for the bank's CEO and COO ($500m change budget)

Architecture design and directing / managing the set up of a new direct consumer lending business. 7 vendors - software and services - integrated into one solution (CRM, call centre, back-end integration, analytics, new infrastructure). High speed, 4-month project, Investment payback in 6 months, $1bn portfolio after 3 years, sold to GE Money.Director in executive team in charge of all project activity, including setup and roll-out of new channels (direct / merchants), quality, core systems replacement, etc.

Enterprise architecture for transformation of Royal & Alliance to a customer-centric enterprise. Development lead for the web-channel - www.morethan.comProject recovery strategy for Transport for LondonTest strategy for Siebel CRM implementation at Cooperative Insurance SocietyBusiness development for PwC - CRM solutions in wealth managementPart of Financial Services, Oracle and Data Warehouse practices

Team member for Global Oracle Financials rollout for GE Capital Global Consumer Finance (now GE Money)Pilot development of business intelligence solution for Financial Planning & Analysis in GE UK.Rollout of business intelligence solution to GE HQ in Stamford, USA and Scandinavia.Part of Global Data Warehouse practice

Software developer for BI solutions for market analysis with FMCG clients (e.g. Heineken, Unilever, Rothmans, ...)

Compulsory national military service with Intelligence Service.

Post graduate research into applying high performance computing solutions to computational fluid dynamics problems, incl numerical weather prediction