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ABOUT
US

MAKING DUMB MONEY SMART

ARYZE is a Copenhagen-based fintech with a mission to solve the biggest problems within the financial system by promoting global financial inclusion and enabling the two billion unbanked people worldwide to access basic financial services.

OUR
MISSION

Solving the biggest problems within the financial system by turning analog (dumb) money into programmable (smart) money.

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OUR
VISION

Bridging traditional financial infrastructure with distributed ledger technology, and creating a trusted and transparent financial ecosystem based on full-reserve banking.

OUR
LOCATIONS

Our office headquarters is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Our subsidiary ARYZE BVI is located in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

OVERVIEW OF OUR

PROUD MOMENTS

Best New Fintech Startup

Copenhagen Fintech (2018)

Top 50 Impact Country

The One Initiative (2019)

Peoples Choice Awards

SDG Tech Awards (2019)

Top 10 Promising Fintech

Fintech50

(2019)

Innovative Developer

Corporate Vision Magazine (2020)

Forbes 30 Under 30

Forbes

(2020)

Best in Class ESG/SDG token

TADS Awards

(2021)

MEET THE ARYZE

CORE TEAM

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Jack

Nikogosian

CEO & Co-founder

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Klaus

Jacobsen

Board Member

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Zrinka

Stankovic

Marketing & Communications Manager
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Morten

Christorp Nielsen

CFO & Co-founder

Richard Garnier

Richard

Garnier

Senior Advisor

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Nitin

Arora

Finance & Investments Manager

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Jodi

Usama Husain

CTO

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Christina

Nielsen

Head of Legal & Compliance

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David

Weber

Full Stack Developer

MEET THE ARYZE

BVI LTD. BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Peter

Kristensen

Chairman of the Board

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Richard

Garnier

Board Member

ARYZE IN THE MEDIA

NEWS FEATURES

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BOARD OF ADVISORS

Peter Kristensen

FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Peter is a financial markets expert with over 30 years of experience. He has a deep understanding of the issues investment managers face and is skilled at finding solutions.

Jimmie Steinbeck

BLOCKCHAIN ADVISOR

Jimmie has been working in the blockchain industry since 2010 and has been involved in numerous projects related to bitcoin, mining, exchanges, and more recently, master nodes and staking.

Fritz Henglein

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Fritz is a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen with research interests in semantic, logical, and algorithmic aspects of programming languages.

Michel Avital

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Steen Møller Jensen

FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Steen has extensive experience from leading financial positions and is also involved with various companies as a board member, consultant, ambassador, or advisor.

Richard Garnier

FINTECH ADVISOR

Richard is a business leader with experience in digital transformation, sales, customer relationships & asset management. Richard has co-founded 9 startups and held senior positions in 3 multinationals.

Boris Düdder

SECURITY ADVISOR

Boris is an Associate Professor in Software Engineering, with research interests that include formal methods in software engineering, software development process improvement, and software QA.

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Dr. Jeppe R. Stokholm

LEGAL ADVISOR

Jeppe is a lawyer, investor, and commentator with a Ph.D. in international taxation. He is based in Zurich, and he has been a political advisor and secretary for several MPs in the Danish Parliament.

Tony Craddock

BUSINESS ADVISOR

Tony is the Director-General of Payments Association UK. He is passionate about innovation in payments and its ability to transform lives worldwide.

Peter Gelardi

BLOCKCHAIN ADVISOR

Peter is a founding member of The Nordic Blockchain Association and also a partner of the Blockchain Technologies Corporation, one of the world’s oldest and most experienced blockchain development firms.

Michel is a professor at Copenhagen Business School whose research focuses on how information technologies are developed, applied, managed, and consumed in human organizations.

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