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what-i-do

I build, launch and scale
new business — pre-seed to Series C.

Founders and operators bring me in when the commercial engine has to be built, not just advised on. I take a company from a sharp idea to a working go-to-market machine — across product, capital and the institutional relationships that move money — and stay until it runs without me.

01

Build from zero

Product strategy, business model and P&L — from first idea through design, build and launch. The 0→1 motion, run by someone who has done it across four ventures.

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02

Build the go-to-market engine

Origination, institutional sales, counterparty coverage and capital markets — the commercial function that turns a product into revenue and the relationships that move real capital.

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03

Build the infrastructure

AI, onchain and payments infrastructure — built and shipped, not slideware. Across lending, DeFi, RWAs, stablecoins and digital assets.

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ventures

Companies I've founded.

Four companies built from zero — one in private beta, an exit, a live product, and one I closed. Real domains, real outcomes, including the one that didn't work.

Founder
Templewood
templewood.io
agentic due diligence for onchain capital

Institutional-grade due diligence on any onchain vault, in machine time. Defensible at IC, agent-readable, every claim sourced. Built for human and autonomous allocators.

Private Beta 2026 →
Founder & CEO · Exit
Funda
funda.co.uk
UK SME lending marketplace

Pre-PSD2 open-banking lending marketplace routing SME credit across 33 lender partners. 3,000 borrowers, £20M monthly flows at exit. CMA / Nesta Open Banking Prize winner. Acquired 2017.

Acquired 2015 – 2017
Founder
Enta
enta.ai
the operating system for warm intros

Turn your network into meetings with decision-makers. Post who you want to meet, your network offers intros, you pick the strongest path in. Live, with paying users.

Live 2025 →
Founder
Endplan
endplan.com
digital estate & asset platform

A platform to track diverse assets across every custodian — crypto, equities, IP, insurance — and ensure beneficiaries can access them. Ahead of its market. Closed.

Closed 2020
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Go-to-market & capital
markets, for clients.

Engagements through Templewood — building go-to-market, institutional sales and capital-markets functions for fintech, payments and digital-asset companies.

SyntropyX
2025 →
Digital Assets · Structured Finance
BTC structured finance platform offering cash-and-carry financing against Bitcoin collateral. Engagement: institutional capital markets and origination.
Head of Capital Markets
syntropyx.com ↗
Crymbo
2025
Payments · Digital-Asset Infrastructure
Single-API infrastructure for regulated institutions to run compliant payments, wallets, stablecoin settlement and identity. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
crymbo.com ↗
IG Group
2025
Regulated Trading
FTSE-250 broker launching a regulated crypto trading desk across the UK, EU, Japan and Dubai. Engagement: trading desk and product build-out.
Head of Crypto Trading Build-Out
ig.com ↗
Byzantine
2025
DeFi · Treasury
Institutional DeFi vault layer for corporate treasuries, family offices and wealth managers. Engagement: institutional capital markets and vault architecture.
Enterprise Sales & Capital
byzantine.fi ↗
Manifest Finance
2025
Tokenised Credit
Tokenised private-credit vault backed by real-estate collateral. Engagement: credit origination, liquidity architecture and counterparty framework.
Head of Credit Origination
manifest.finance ↗
Rho Trading
2023
Crypto Derivatives
Crypto-native interest-rate-derivatives exchange (DEX). Engagement: institutional liquidity, capital markets and counterparty-risk framework.
Head of Capital Markets & Liquidity
rho.trading ↗
Copper
2021 – 2022
Custody · Settlement
Digital-asset custody and off-exchange settlement infrastructure. Engagement: ownership of the ClearLoop settlement product and institutional coverage.
Head of Trading Services & ClearLoop
copper.co ↗
IMMO Capital
2020 – 2021
Real-Estate Credit
Institutional real-estate credit platform. Engagement: capital markets, fund structuring and credit origination.
Head of Capital Markets
immo.capital ↗
Ericsson Wallet
2019 – 2020
Payments · Mobile Money
Mobile money and digital-wallet platform for telecom operators and financial-service providers. Engagement: mobile financial services.
Mobile Financial Services
ericsson.com ↗
Bluechain
2017 – 2019
Payments Infrastructure
API-first cross-border payments infrastructure for remittance, merchant and institutional disbursement. Engagement: EMEA build-out and commercial function.
Managing Director, EMEA
bluechain.com ↗
Yaspa
2026
A2A Payments · Open Banking
Instant account-to-account (Pay by Bank) payments and identity services built on open banking, for regulated sectors including iGaming and eCommerce. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
yaspa.com ↗
Systm
2026
Agentic Treasury · Stablecoins
Agentic stablecoin treasury OS for SMBs — keeps operating cash earning yield in the background while staying available for payroll, suppliers and day-to-day spend. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
systm.xyz ↗
Coinchange
2026
DeFi Yield · Infrastructure
Yield-as-a-Service infrastructure — an API that lets fintechs and funds embed automated, risk-managed DeFi yield for their customers. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
coinchange.io ↗
Netopia
2026
Payments · Mobile Wallet
Romania's largest payment processor — card, SMS and mobile payments for 25,000+ merchants, plus the mobilPay digital wallet. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
netopia.ro ↗
Nominis
2026
Onchain Security · Compliance
Blockchain compliance and investigations platform — wallet screening, transaction monitoring (KYT) and crypto intelligence across 70+ chains, for VASPs, banks and law enforcement. Engagement: capital markets and go-to-market.
Capital Markets / GTM
nominis.io ↗

Plus 15 years on institutional credit desks at HSBC, Crédit Agricole, ING & Kingsley.

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