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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Decisions, decisions
Do we have too many choices? Do these translate in better decision-making? Science thinks the answer is no. While philosophers debate between free will or determinism, for us business people the focus tends to be a bit more pragmatic. We all need to make choices, and we all have been told knowledge is power. Now […]
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We learnt nothing?
Da Vinci’s Masterpiece is yet again given a “tomato soup makeover’ thanks to Riposte Alimentaire. Even the most evil of ultra-processed soups will not damage a painting protected with bulletproof glass, making this news yet another example of a fictitious gesture for effect. Asking “What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and […]
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In the near future, quantity will have a quality of its own
Do you think being a high-performer will save you from the AI doomsday? You are up to a hell of a disappointment there. I was chatting a few days ago with Andreas Mitschke who pointed me towards a very interesting paper published by Harvard Business School, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]
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