Laurent Féral-Pierssens

Founder & CEO

2020

BlockZero is a co-creation studio dedicated to building Modern Technology Infrastructure: blockchain, digital assets, bitcoin, artificial intelligence. BlockZero teams up with founders and executives to build emerging technology compagnies, create ground-break products and introduce innovative services to market. #fintech #digitalassets #bitcoin #web3 #defi #metaverse #digitalidentity #blockchain #DeFi #AI

Founding Partner

2021

True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV) has invested in 3 unicorns, namely Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, Forge. TGV GPs are investing their own money between 20%-40% of the Total Fund AUM. The fund is investing in equity across 3 verticals in Web3: Entertainment, Financial Services, Infrastructure & Data Analytics/AI. TGV is licensed under Monetary Authorities of Singapore. Animoca Brands: Unicom global market leader leveraging gamification & blockchain to develop and publish a portfolio of games The Sandbox: Global market leader in gaming metaverse empowering artists, creators, players to play, build, own, monetise virtual experiences on blockchain Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE): Global market leader in secondary private market shares transactions, with over 12 B USD transaction volume, in > 500 companies Chromaway: Creator of relational blockchain protocol Chromia ($CHR), powering Metaverse game My Neighbor Alice (SALICE), incubator behind Mines of Dalarnia ($DAR) Coinhouse: Leading French regulated digital assets platform for individuals, companies & institutions Chronicled: Industry-led, blockchain-powered network in life sciences & pharmaceuticals, providing administration & building solutions on MediLedger Network to facilitate trust & enable automation GCEX: Regulated digital brokerage & end-to-end trading platform bringing Tier 1 liquidity for Institutional clients bridging gap between traditional finance & digital assets SATO Technologies Corp (TSXV: SATO): Bitcoin mining company based in Quebec utilising 100% renewable energy Enjinstarter: Leading Launchpad for GameFi & Metaverse Blockchain Ecosystems Iomob: Decentralized protocol for creation of Internet of Mobility, world's first interoperable Mobility Marketplace Network Dedoco: Next-generation digital Document Management as-a-Service built on blockchain technology, providing increased data privacy & document security

Chief Operating Officer

2021 - 2022

Bitt is a global financial technology company that provides digital currency solutions to central banks, financial institutions and ecosystem participants worldwide. Bitt has partnered with the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) to issue and operate the world’s first Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) monetary union instrument called DCash which is now legal tender across the eight nations of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). Bitt offers a complete financial technology solution for financial and private institutions, monetary authorities, and governments to integrate with digital monetary instruments: CBDCs, stablecoins and digital currencies.

Strategic Advisor

2020 - 2020

Leader, Blockchain & Digital Assets

2019 - 2020

Canada Blockchain & Digital Assets Lead Global Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Lead

Co-founder and Partner

2018 - 2019

Inception Block Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm dedicated to the Blockchain industry.

Executive Director, Blockchain Advisory

2018 - 2019

Executive Director, Management Consulting

2016 - 2018

Founder & CEO, Silentale Cloud

2015 - 2016

Silentale is the provider of Silentale Cloud, a Customer Data Science Middleware for the retail and media industries. Silentale Cloud extends marketing tools by encapsulating the most common data science use cases into an easy to use cloud-based service. Silentale streamlines customer data processing and the marketing tools already in place for enterprise to activate more customers more efficiently using the power of big data.

Founder & CEO, Silentale Consulting

2008 - 2014

Silentale’s business strategy expertise, data mining capabilities and proprietary software enable its Retail and Media clients to identify, integrate, measure and optimize data analytics initiatives.

Founder and President

2002 - 2008

Multichannel marketing company providing an email marketing platform. Acquired by Likuid Communications in 2008.

Founder and Chief Operating Officer

2005 - 2007

Banking and Healthcare information systems.

Lecturer

2003 - 2006

Lecturing master level Information Systems class at McGill Center for Continuing Education, Diploma in Information Technology program. Introducing Information Systems as they are integrated in our everyday business environment and focusing on the challenges to understand the very principles behind the use and implementation of such systems.