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With over three decades of experience in managing innovative projects and high-profile human resources, Christoph Surgowt offers a unique blend of leadership, vision, and knowledge as well as strategic thinking about innovative business worldwide. As the Co-founder, CEO and Director of VAIOT Limited, Christoph is responsible for running all facets of the business, supported by a proven executive management track record in driving sales growth in the IT and media industry. Before joining VAIOT, Christoph acted as the Chief Executive Officer for USECRYPT S.A. From mid-2015 until 2018, he was responsible for the entire operational management structure and all sales and marketing activities, with a particular focus on the development of a new generation IT encryption platforms called UseCrypt Safe and UseCrypt Messenger, aimed at both the B2B and government sectors. Previously, he served for fifteen years as the Managing Director of ASTRA Poland and subsequently ASTRA CEE, belonging to Luxembourgish SES – the world leader in satellite operations, operating the biggest satellite fleet worldwide. Christoph has also held executive leadership roles in many other international companies. After more than a decade at Polish Public Television, he decided to enter the private sector, joining the German company Kathrein KG – one of the first world leaders in satellite hardware manufacturing. Subsequently, he became Deputy Managing Director of the South African/Dutch Multichoice EE enterprise. Christoph was chiefly responsible for the marketing and distribution of FilmNet, the first Pay-TV channel in Europe.

IT Project Manager & Operations Manager with Information Security, Audit & Compliance and Transition & Transformation (T&T) background. At VAIOT, responsible for the overall, operational project management, coordination across all functional areas and implementation of the project management framework and good practices. Previously, acted as a Project Management Director at Veriori S.A., where he was responsible for leading and managing IT & development projects (including international clients from France, Luxemburg, etc.). As a PM led international T&T, R&D, and audit/compliance projects for companies such as e.g. Atos or BNP Paribas and worked with e.g. Royal Mail Group, Aviva, Nomad Foods. Managed projects in the area of network infrastructure, information security, and systems development (over five million EUR) for institutional clients in the UK and Poland. Managed project teams 5-30 professionals. He previously managed Information Security & Audit structure delivering internal and external services, including the role of Internal/External Auditor and management of Infosec projects.

Researcher and R&D projects coordinator with a cybersecurity background. At VAIOT, leading and executing research and development activity as well as acting as a Product Owner. Previously an R&D Director and Co-Founder at Veriori (www.veriori.com), a next-generation product authentication company utilizing Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. Responsible for concept design and implementation of Veriori’s products and technology. Before, he acted as an R&D Director and Co-Founder at UseCrypt (https://usecrypt.com/), where he was responsible for technology development and implementation of UseCrypt products. In 2009, he developed an innovative encryption method with the use of encryption key sharing. This technology is the foundation of the solutions offered by UseCrypt. Since 2004, he has been involved in the development of eighteen IT (Poland, UK) projects, mainly in the private sector. Speaker at several IT conferences and organizer of two TEDx conferences. Awarded, among others, with a gold medal at the Concours Lépine 2019 International Innovation Fair 2019 in Paris and a gold medal of the Minister of Defense of the French Republic for cryptographically secured 2D codes.

IT Product Owner and Product Development Manager with over four years of professional experience developing chat and voice bots. At VAIOT responsible for managing the product development processes using the Scrum framework and strongly focusing on developing various use-cases for Intelligent Contracts and enhancing other VAIOT solutions. Previously, worked for several companies being part of the development teams creating Intelligent Virtual Assistants, voice bots, and chatbots for different business use cases and clients. He managed a product team of 5 professionals working on utilizing AI Assistants for marketing purposes, HR processes, and creating voice bots for customers from the medical, financial, or automotive sectors. As a Product Owner, he has successfully contributed to many exciting and, until now, prospecting projects.

She began her career in the Talent Acquisition team at Nordea. Agnieszka holds a Bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Warsaw and is currently doing her Master’s in Germany. At VAIOT, she is supporting the project and operational management with a focus on product development process as well as regulatory and sale-related activities.

With over 10 years of experience not only in cryptocurrency, but sales, marketing, and technology Jacob brings a variety experience to VAIOT. His time as a team lead on Verizon Media's Yahoo project is where he sharpened his skills not only as a data analyst, but as a resource coordinator and thought leader. Since then, he has had management and advisory roles in a variety of projects across the space. As Community Manager Jacob strives to put all the pieces in place necessary for VAIOT to grow into the future.

An early adopter of blockchain technology and digital assets investor since 2015. Specialist in blockchain technology and ICO industry. From the beginning of his professional career, he has been working on systems utilizing distributed registers for various business applications such as e.g. product and document authentication. He specializes in token economics modeling, product design, and management, trading strategies as well as the development of ICO marketing strategies. In the supported projects, he focused on the effective use of technology along with ensuring a high level of usability. Holding several years of experience in conducting IT training, including the creation of curricula and organization of training programs. Skilled in software development for industrial automation solutions. Before starting his professional career, he was awarded in few technical competitions, among others, by the J.P. Morgan foundation for inventiveness and innovation.

An experienced professional responsible for operational activity management and a lawyer specializing in the field of corporate law, personal data protection law (GDPR), and new technology law. For the last two years she acted as a proxy and legal advisor to the management board in the joint-stock company Veriori (www.veriori.com). Previously at UseCrypt S.A. (www.usecrypt.com), she was responsible for supporting product development in regards to GDPR, GDPR training for clients, as well as legal services and partnerships. Since 2009, she runs her own business, providing legal services, training, management, and consulting services with a special focus on startups.

Daniel Lenikus is an entrepreneur from Vienna, Austria, who is involved in the blockchain & crypto space since early 2017. Over the last few years, he has acquired comprehensive knowledge in the fields of digital currencies, tokenization, and go-to-market strategy. For two years he is the CEO of BlockExpo GmbH which specializes in conferences, community building and strategic consulting. This has resulted in projects such as the ANON Summit (the largest blockchain conference in the DACH region), Vienna Blockchain Week and Block&Wine (Austria's fastest-growing tech community).

During his studies in economic law in Vienna, Michael was deeply involved in developing various start-ups. Michael is a co-founder of BlockExpo GmbH. A Viennese company that supports the Blockchain ecosystem in Austria with conferences and strategic consulting. The flagship project of the company is the ANON Summit. An annual, two-day conference with over 1000 visitors from over 50 nations and a clear focus on blockchain use cases from different industries. Michael continues to be intensely involved in strategic consulting for companies and managers. As an interface between our marketing and sales department, he helps to optimize processes and drive growth through digitization tools.

William is an accomplished and future-minded professional with extensive experience in business development across varied sectors and global markets. A passion for tech & scientific innovation is his driving force. A native "Londoner" he now bases himself in Switzerland and most recently, he has led sales-marketing-business-product development projects with cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (aidock.net | quantship.ai), Blockchain (singular-point.com | cryptosociety.club ) and novel DNA test start-ups (swissdecode.com). William brings 25 years of negotiation experience from senior positions developing enterprise partners such as SGS, Cargill, ExxonMobil, Trafigura, BASF, Dow and Ineos. He also led pioneering entrepreneurial moves as Founder of London based companies Auriga; Waterline and establishing a new European department for SSY New York.

Head of Advisory Board and former (2014-2018) CEO of NEUROHM, a global technology provider in the field of applied consumer neuroscience. NEUROHM develops and licenses throughout the world innovative methods, metrics and tools that are being applied in market research, sales, HR and CX. Prior to joining NEUROHM in 2013, Jacek spent 7 years in retail banking working for several institutions in Poland, first as financial markets and macroeconomic analyst, then as project leader and product manager. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Retail Products Department in Postal Bank and since then he has held managerial positions in retail banking as head of product and business process development units. He was also responsible for running sales department and managing the whole retail banking division of a medium-size bank. Jacek holds a MSc degree in Finance and Banking and a MSc degree in International Economic Relations, both from the Warsaw School of Economics.