Stefan Hickmott CEO & Founder
Stefan is the owner of Evarei/Globalstate Limited and has senior professional expertise and experience spanning 23-years in private equity, investment, advisory and management consulting sectors, specializing in hospitality, leisure and real estate, and is the former vice president of investment for real estate and hospitality projects at The Abraaj Group in Dubai, U.A.E, the region's pre-eminent private equity firm.
Stefan has considerable expertise as a principal in the direct investment space and has developed a successful track record in deployment of capital into well-structured, risk-adjusted investment opportunities with clear growth and exit potential. He has been instrumental in the investment and planning of over USD 25 billion of real estate, hospitality and leisure development projects spanning the past 3 decades. He has completed more than 500 investment advisory, planning, feasibility assessment, business valuation, asset management and investment projects covering almost every type of real estate, hospitality or leisure Business.
Mark WilsonPrincipal - Investments
During Mark’s 16+ years of experience he has worked as the Senior Equities Associate with a Dubai-based family office responsible for an internal equity portfolio, fund manager due diligence and selection, and asset allocation within the private and public equities fund manager space. Previously, he was an Associate Director with Swiss bank Julius Bar's Client Advisory Group (CAG) in Dubai as a Buy-Side Equities Analyst for the ONYX MENA Fund, an absolute return fund advised by Julius Bar CAG and managed by Blackpearl Capital.
Within corporate finance/development, he was the Senior Investment Analyst within acquisitions and investments-based business development at a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority targeting the consumer food and agribusiness sector, and prior to moving the GCC, Mark spent four and a half years with HSBC's Investment Banking division primarily in London.
Avik K. RakhitAssociate Director - Investments
Avik has garnered over 20-years of senior professional real estate advisory and development expertise, working extensively for major firms in Dubai, elsewhere in the Arabian Gulf, Asian and European markets. He has been a consummate professional in the real estate industry, most significantly in his capacity as Director with Jones Lang LaSalle MENA in Dubai, UAE.
As associate director with Evareium, Avik brings decades of world-class expertise in sourcing, procuring and managing compelling real estate opportunities and is able to leverage these skill sets to bring unparalleled value to Evareium’s executive team.
Andrew RowlstoneHead of Investor Relations
Andrew has 14-years professional experience gained across multiple senior executive positions held in London, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, held with leading international companies, whilst also being a successful investor and trader in Blockchain technology since early 2017.
Andrew is responsible for managing the pre-DSO and full DSO stages of the EVRM offering. Andrew will maintain his investor relations role as Evareium Investor Relations Director post EVRM launch.
Katy AllafrancoHead of Marketing
Katy is a highly efficient and creative Marketing Communications professional with extensive hands-on experience in reviewing, developing and implementing a company’s marcom strategy.
Over the last 15 years Katy has demonstrated her ability in ensuring brand messages, standards and communications are understood and implemented effectively for both B2C and B2B clients. Her previous experience as Head of Marketing & Communications for one of the region’s largest Wealth Management companies means she is ideally placed to lead Evareium's marketing efforts.
In 2016 Katy established her own marketing company, Mint Marketing, which offers full service integrated marketing solutions including marketing planning, branding, web development, digital marketing and event organisation.
David O'RileyCommercial Advisor
David is founder of Tellus Environmental Specialists, which provides a range of specialist technical support services and solutions pertaining to the acquisition, operation, management and maintenance of buildings.
A UK national, David graduated from Coventry University in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and has spent a period spanning five decades working in a multitude of industries focussed around technology, including senior design roles with GEC/Marconi and Hawker Siddeley (BAe Systems) and technical sales roles with Intel and Philips. He is a specialist in the implementation of energy saving technologies and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) and has a strong repertoire of skills pertaining to physical enhancement of real estate assets to save costs and energy, as well as ensuring compliance with world-class fire and health and safety standards.
David PryceCommercial Advisor
David is director of Tellus Environmental Specialists and has over 40-years’ experience in the Middle East in manufacturing, project management, sales and marketing in a wide variety of industries and at the senior management level.
Since 2007, David has focused predominantly on energy and water efficiency and indoor air quality monitoring aspects of real estate cost and standards’ management, initially with London based eSolve Energy Solutions as their Middle East Director and then with Watts Down Trading Establishment. David is an expert in orchestrating energy audits and sourcing new and innovative products relevant to the real estate industry which can help enhance substantially a property’s profitability across a multitude of levels.
Matthew T. RansonCorporate Strategist
Matthew has senior, professional expertise and experience spanning 21-years in corporate strategy, branding and communications across multiple sectors including real estate, hospitality and travel, consumer brands and retail, building services, financial services, utilities, education, healthcare, government services, technology, transportation, NGOs and non-profit organizations.
Matthew's brand and corporate advisory portfolio includes: brand portfolio strategy and brand architecture creation for Italian Hospitality Collection, Italy; brand strategy, portfolio strategy and brand architecture for Shurooq (Sharjah Investment & Development Authority), UAE; brand development (including market positioning, customer journey mapping and naming) for a large mixed use development, Zubair Corporation, Oman; brand strategy and employee engagement for Mubadala Petroleum, UAE; brand strategy, portfolio strategy and brand architecture for Meydan Hotels & Resorts, UAE.
Peerchemist Lead Technical Advisor
Peerchemist is a respected member of crypto currency community.
Since 2016 he has led the Peercoin project and invented the PeerAssets token protocol.
Peerchemist strives to improve the crypto-currency scene by increasing real-life use cases like tokenization of tangible assets and blockchain-based governance and organization.
A Peerchemist advises executive management on all technical matters regarding Evareium as well as token offering and structuring strategies to adopt to reflect the expectations of the discerning token investor in this dynamic investment space.
Christian Papathanasiou Advisor to Board of Directors
Chris is a Director at Dark Matter, overseeing the management of teams responsible for technical IT security within Dark Matter's CISO organisation. Prior to Dark Matter, Chris gained extensive application security experience defining and managing some of the largest application security and secure development programmes (SSDLC) for financial services institutions such as Citigroup Global Markets and Royal Bank of Scotland based out of London, UK. Chris has managed teams, P&L and vendors. He has sat on various board risk committees, set enterprise-wide and global application security standards and worked with regulators.
Chris is closely affiliated with the Open Web Application Security Project (“OWASP”) where he was a co-author of the OWASP Mobile Security Guidelines for App Developers, has been an elected member of the OWASP board level Global Industry Committee which seeks to work closely with industry to exchange knowledge regarding application security.
Paul Moynan DSO Ambassador
Mr. Moynan is a global entrepreneur and operations expert, with two decades of success in high-level projects including governments, High Net Worth families and her Majesty’s Royal Marines Commandos. Mr Moynan’s keen acumen for business and project execution has led him to develop a significant portfolio of industry-leading companies. The companies range from Blockchain technology development, cutting-edge healthcare innovation, to security and gaming. Paul has served as an advisor to many Offices of The President of African States as well as personal advisor to a number of families across the Middle East. Co-Founder to Dragon Coin ($2 billion market cap), Paul brings a wealth of top level and DSO expertise to Evareium and its development into a world-leading Blockchain ecosystem.
Phillip Nunn DSO Ambassador
Entrepreneur, CEO and international speaker on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and fintech. Phillip Nunn founded The Blackmore Group in 2013. Today it’s grown into a business with substantial assets under management and a suite of investment products across multiple classes for individuals and institutions in the UK and overseas.
With more than 15 years’ experience in financial services, Phillip specialises in wealth management, angel investment, commercial property investment and financial technology. He founded The Blackmore Group on the core belief of giving clients real and tangible alternatives to poor investment performance and providing “future proof” investment strategies. Phillip has become a well-known, online influencer in the Blockchain and crypto space and has travelled the world evangelising and talking on these subjects. Phillip has sat on the advisory boards of many DSO 's over the past 12 months and has helped structure and fund some of the biggest companies of the future.
Desmond Marshall DSO Advisor
Desmond Marshall is the founder and MD of Rouge Ventures, an investment and strategic consulting firm in Asia, that serves numerous Fortune 500, governments, and new age global companies. They conduct capital raising and advisory on IPO/DSO processes, and other multi-industry businesses, for strategic repackaging and operational enhancements. Desmond has served on more than 15 DSO Advisory boards prior to joining Evareium.
Mr Marshall is one of the very first individuals in Asia to be a member of the global Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, joining fellow ranks like Accenture, BP British Petroleum, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Microsoft, UBS, and many other Fortune 500 companies, in defining new development roadmaps to Blockchain technology and its application in the real world. Mr Marshall has numerous experiences in reviewing and vetting Blockchain related investment projects since 2012 long before it became popular.
Yogesh Gaikwad DSO Advisor
Yogesh Gaikwad is a Fintech entrepreneur from India with vast experience in growth hacking and fundraising for start-ups internationally.
Yogesh has successfully executed 5 International DSO s whilst notably being the founder of the Pillar Project and Yuvidigital; a consultancy that specialises in DSO Advisory and Growth Hacking solutions.
Elias Ahonen DSO Advisor
Founder & CEO of Token Valley, a global group offering professional consultancy for Blockchain projects in the areas of strategy, whitepapers, website building, PR, and partnerships. In addition to this, Token Valley is building a comprehensive Blockchain education platform. Having written the ‘Encyclopaedia of Physical Bitcoins and Crypto-Currencies (April 15, 2016, ISBN-10: 0995089906)’, Elias has been involved in the Blockchain industry for five years now. He has previously worked in sustainability consulting in Africa, as a data analyst at BlackBerry, and as a geopolitical research assistant at Nanjing University (China).