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Jeffrey Broer

Narrowing the DeFi <> TradFi compliance gap - Mulana - 5.5B under 55

Hong Kong

Skills

Trust Services
Trusts
Trust Management
Trust
Board of Directors
Board Governance
Board Relations
Board Development
Politics
Higher Education
University Lecturing
Early Stage Investment
Start-up Leadership
Start-up Ventures
Program Monitoring
Program Development
English
Investments
Venture Capital
Leadership

Education

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2023

    Mulana IM has become the First and Only regulated entity in Hong Kong with license type 1,4,5 and 9, all with a dedicated focus on providing virtual assets products and services. Gateway for vetted VA Funds, platform to incubate Licensed Reps & ROs

  • Advisor and Venture Partner

    2022

    Mulana Capital, a VC fund, started by founders for founders. We invest in early stage Blockchain ventures. From Decentralized Finance, dApps, Infrastructure & Middleware to other tokenomics ventures. In our portfolio: bitsCrunch, Zecrey, Mara, LimeWire, Gamic Guild, Peaq Network, EYWA, ZKCross, Joyride Games, Bowled, MetaPrints, Ready Games Network, and others. Reach out if you are looking to deploy capital to deals you normally will not able to get, or if you're looking for funding support on your venture.

  • Program Director

    2023

    An intensive 16-week web3 accelerator program to nurture and empower early-stage Indian startups. Built in collaboration with some of the world's leading VCs, blockchain products, platforms, and ecosystems. www.gravitonaccelerator.com Gain foundational learning in business strategy, web3-first principles, growth marketing, and fundraising from India's top web3 evangelists as mentors. Applications open! #JoinGraviton

  • Program Advisor

    2022 - 2023

    An intensive 16-week web3 accelerator program to nurture and empower early-stage Indian startups. Built in collaboration with some of the world's leading VCs, blockchain products, platforms, and ecosystems. www.gravitonaccelerator.com Gain foundational learning in business strategy, web3-first principles, growth marketing, and fundraising from India's top web3 evangelists as mentors. Applications open! #JoinGraviton

  • Co-running Biomedical Innovation Team Project

    2019

    Working with graduate student on the capstone course Biomedical Innovation Team Project (BBMS4012 - FYP) at The University of Hong Kong Biomedical Science Department (Part-time position) Co-founding and co-running the program, teaching tricks and tools for entrepreneurship, coaching the students teams, curriculum setup and arranging guest speakers.

  • Board of Directors, Director / Non-Executive Director

    2015

    Member of the Board of Directors. Jefferson Trust is a public independent financial service provider with offices in London, Monaco, Hong Kong and the Bahamas. Their activities cover the entire area of investment advice and asset protection. Jefferson Trust offers its clients hand-tailored, broad and future-protected range of products and services, all under one roof. Assume membership within the Board of Directors, in charge of reviewing and evaluating present and future opportunities, along with possible threats and risks in the external environment to determine strategic options to improve overall operations. Recognize and advice on business strategies and plans that strengthen the corporate strategy. Ensure suitability of the company's organizational structure to sustain capability to provide financial service, to include investment advice and asset protection. Play a lead role in making sure that the company can render exemplary service in the provision of high-value advisory and support services to clients’ businesses, as well as in establishing business operations, understanding their market opportunities, and developing practical strategies for future markets. Career Highlights: Monitored and set the pace for the existing operations and future development that kept offices at the top of their performance and nurtured willingness to keep improving. Streamlined operations to achieve better results for the clients that go beyond financial and were uniquely tailored, pragmatic, holistic, and enduring.

2016 - 2023

  • Venture Advisor

    2016 - 2023

    Helps getting entrepreneur's story straight for early growth companies to support their M&A and funding projects. Derisking technology ventures. Corporate innovation projects. - Recent projects: preparing a post-revenue IoT company for their first outside money raise. Renewable energy - insuretech company raising growth funding round. Medical supply chain platform funding round. Strategy Service Design review for a LegalTech company. Digital assets O2O, professionalization of the business. - Training, speaker and panel moderation for technology events Advising HNWI, Family Offices, Startup Programs, how to identify early stage investments and M&A and advise early stage technology companies (IoT, Bloçkchain, AI, Analytics) on funding and M&A.

  • Accelerator Program Manager

    2022 - 2022

    Running the 2022 accelerator batch for OWC (Open Web Collective) the protocol agnostic early-stage blockchain venture fund and accelerator spun out from the NEAR protocol ecosystem. With an initial investment of $150,000 in all accepted projects, OWC aims to reimagine how the next generation of applications will be built using open technologies, no matter which protocol. At the end of the program, the project are eligible for an additional $500,000 in investments. Are you working on the next great service that leverage blockchain technology, you can already apply for the next batch here: https://nearprotocol1001.typeform.com/to/JigoMZq0

2020 - 2022

  • FinTech Innovation Lab Program Director

    2020 - 2022

    Responsible for the 2021 revamp of the program to better meet the needs and requirements of all the stakeholders and expand the program to other Asia-Pacific regions and add additional stakeholders as investors and education. Also responsible for running the 2020 and 2021 program. The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific is a highly competitive 12-week program that helps early to growth stage start-ups refine and test their value proposition with the support of the world’s leading financial service firms.

  • FinTech Innovation Lab Program Director

    2020 - 2022

    The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific is a highly competitive 12-week program that helps early to growth stage start-ups refine and test their value proposition with the support of the world’s leading financial service firms.