Co founder and CEO
Jonathan worked as a software developer at Scottish Equitable International before returning to academia to complete a PhD in Computer Science. Afterwards he set up and ran the Manual Intelligence Lab at CITEC in Bielefeld University for over 8 years. It took bitcoin to entice him back to finance.
Co founder and CTO
Before moving to the cryptocurrency space, Christof worked for 11 years in the Neuroinformatics Group at Bielefeld University. With a focus on robotics, computer vision and machine learning he made contributions to the domain of robotic manipulation of paper during his PhD, led the Computer Vision Group and created the open source computer vision library ICL.
Co founder and CBDO
René ran the Ambient Intelligence Lab at CITEC for over four years, was part of the CITEC scientific board and has supervised many research projects. The implications of Programmable Money, namely Bitcoin and Blockchains in general, caught his attention and convinced him to play a part in building the future internet of value.
CFO
Irène started her career in banking and then joined the Henkel Group where she held several positions in Finance including Treasury and Controlling in East Europe to become the European Controller for the Institutional Business. She was CFO and member of the board of Semaia Pharmaceuticals, a Biotech Start-Up. Irène is a graduate from University of Geneva in Economics and European Studies.
Software developer
Christian did a Masters degree in computer science and a PhD on novel communication channels and adaptive user interfaces. He then spent a while in academia, helping to build a new home automation and personal robotics lab before heeding the call of the blockchain.
Software developer
After studying mathematics in his Bachelor degree, Thoren finished his Masters degree in Intelligent Systems in 2017 and joined the margin team directly. Although relatively new to the crypto-space he is very excited about it and enthusiastic about the team and the product.