Miguel Neumann.
Investor, Entrepreneur.
Miguel is an entrepreneur specialised in Innovation. Over his career, he acted in a variety of C-Level roles. His experience spans over 20+ years leading projects and teams internationally.
Miguel founded and funded companies in the fields of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. Many of these projects raised 8-figure rounds, through venture capital fundraising, M&A and ICOs.
Miguel is currently the interim CEO, former CFO of Eternal. The company has been valued multiple millions.
Miguel worked for J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Banking, was one of the inaugural speakers at the Blockchain APPG in Parliament and counts with an MBA from Durham University, with specialised finance studies at Harvard.
Highlights
Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies
Miguel Co-Founded Maecenas, the first Blockchain Fine Art Tokenisation platform to go live. He Advised Akropolis, one of the first DeFi platforms.
Both companies raise multiple million in funding through ICOs.
Investment
Banking
Varied financial background including years managing global teams at J.P. Morgan Investor Services & Corporate Investment Banking.
First-hand experience in Stock and FX Trading, and several projects delivered for wealth managers and family offices.
Durham (UK) +
Harvard (US) Alumno
Strong academic background. Multiple awards for academic performance. MBA Thesis: quantitative analysis of brand valuations as decision-making tools for investors.
Keen interest in behavioural economics and decision-making.
Bilingual &
Multicultural
Triple citizenship: British, German & Argentinean. Lived and worked in multiple cities, adapting to different languages and cultures.
Experience managing distributed and culturally diverse teams. Travel enthusiast.
Professional Experience
Eternal
London, UK
2020 – Present
Interim CEO, CFO
Eternal is a multi-awarded biotechnology platform for innovation that combines synthetic biology and artificial intelligence to improve industrial processes. Current areas of interest: food ingredients, space applications and material.
Completed a substantial financial round in less than 18 months from joining the firm, securing terms sheets for 3 different types of investors.
Winner of Phase 1 and finalist of Phase 2 NASA deep space food challenge
Alpha AI
Spain / UK
2022 onwards
Co-Founder
Proprietary Alpha-generating Artificial Intelligence tools that can either provide market signals or be connected via API to trading platforms.
The Initial model returned 56.12% of cumulative performance over 10 months, closing 63.23% of its 427 trades profitably.
Ship Shape
Wales, UK
2020 – 2021
Co-Founder
Venture Capital search engine powered by Artificial Intelligence, which allows to find the best match for a given venture or mandate.
Co-founded the business with the CEO, responsible for ideation and creating the initial MVPs of the product – secured initial funding through UK innovation grants in less than 6 months.
Billon Group
London, UK
2018 – 2020
UK Office Director
Proprietary blockchain platform focused on regulated digital cash.
Led the company expansion in the UK, from young start-up to Series-B business, personally overseeing the initial deployments with customers including NBC Universal. Acted as hiring manager for the expanding business and helped securing $5m+ in European Grants.
Akropolis
London, UK
2018
Interim Director of Business Operations
DeFi platform with an initial focus in autonomous non-territorial pension funds.
Advised the founding team on post-ICO emerging regulatory environment, analysing the tax impact and legal nuances of a multi-jurisdictional business, coordinating tax advisory, auditing, and legal firms.
NASDAQ: Addressing the retirmenet crisis with Blockchain
Investopedia: Can Blockchain Solve the Global Retirement Crisis?
Maecenas
London, UK
2016 – 2018
Co-Founder
Fine Art fractional ownership, tokenisation & provenance platform.
Co-created the concept with the CEO; accountable for the platform success, launch and growth after spinning-off from DXMarkets.
First ever multi-million dollar artwork tokenised and sold on blockchain
Art is becoming a financial product and blockchain is making it happen
YSI Partners
London, UK
2014 onwards
Founder
Consulting practice specialised in communication for start-ups and financial institutions.
Responsible for developing key relationships with established brands in the financial sector, keeping a healthy pipeline of projects for clients including Tungsten Network, Grant Thornton and more.
J.P. Morgan
London, UK
Prior to 2014
Vice President, CIB
Initially part of the Investor Services Group of the business, later on covering Corporate and Investment Banking – with a mandate over lines of business ranging from capital markets to private banking and asset management.
Blog
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Can you do low-level thinking?
The launch of Apple visionpro has triggered all sort of reactions ranging from memes to admiration, but there is one thing that has become clear: the next decade will be very exciting for the design community. Now why the design community? For most GenX like me, we have lived partially with and without internet, with […]
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Venture Capital and pet peeves: how to be the adult.
Are you a VC giving advice to founders? Are you an LP giving money to VCs? Are you a founder looking to raise? Grab a cup of tea/coffee and read on. Over the weekend, I skimmed through LinkedIn while waiting on a queue and found a VC posting a meme denoting exasperation for people including TAM/SAM/SOM in […]
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Good leaders inspire; great leaders listen.
I generally have nothing but praise for Harvard Business Review but occasionally they get things wrong. Very wrong. In a recent article, the author points out that 80% of the working population reports stress at work in the US, a figure consistent with the UK. The most cited causes are: – Low pay– Unreasonable workloads – Hectic commuting […]
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