Who We Are
Our Reach Is Global
QPQ is uniquely positioned to be the key enabler of digitalisation. As such, the development of our technology and platforms will have enormous financial, social, and commercial impact.
Backing up our unique technological and business proposition, we have assembled a core team of highly experienced professionals who straddle the digital and traditional divide. This underpins our ability to translate fluently between the new digital frontier and traditional enterprise.
The architecture of our technology and business planning are fully developed, customers are ready to utilise our platform and services. We are now seeking the necessary investment and partnerships to rapidly develop and deploy our platforms and services.
Our Team Is World Class
The QPQ team includes computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, economists, researchers and veterans from the fintech and banking industries.
Jeremy Wilson
Chairman
Jeremy Wilson
Chairman
Former Vice-Chair at Barclays Bank PLC. Jeremy also chairs The Whitechapel Think Tank, The Global Futures Council on Blockchain for the World Economic Forum, The UK Government Engagement and Advisory Group, The Banking Industry Environment Initiative Working Group and is a trustee of various charitable trusts covering the banking and education sectors.
Stephen Rice
Non-Executive Director
Stephen Rice
Non-Executive Director
A Banking & Asset Management specialist with over 30 years experience. Previously, Stephen held COO positions with two leading funds of funds and a major bank.
Maria Lam
Non-Executive Director
Maria Lam
Non-Executive Director
An international capital markets specialist with over 30 years experience. Maria formed part of the management team that led the buyout to create Maple Financial, for whom she was instrumental in their expansion across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Declan Finn
Non-Executive Director
Declan Finn
Non-Executive Director
A senior banker with a 30-year career specialising in trade finance. Previously the MD and co-founder of Cambridge Confirming — a publicly listed challenger bank based in Ireland. Prior to that, Declan led the development of Bank of Ireland's trade finance operation as General Manager, Bank of Ireland Commercial Finance
Pete Townsend
Non-Executive Director
Pete Townsend
Non-Executive Director
With 25 years of experience in capital markets, FinTech and advisory, Pete has partnered with many startup founders and enterprise firms to get new products to market, accelerate growth and amplify brands. Previously, Pete was the COO and global head of product development for a division of BNP Paribas and director on the board of its Irish franchise for ten years.
David O'Reilly
Non-Executive Director
David O'Reilly
Non-Executive Director
Former and Head of FX sales and Bankers Trust and CSFB, David was a principal at the world's most successful quantative investment fund, Renaissance Technologies in New York under Jim Simmons. David has a track record of working with successful scale-ups and start-ups; as chairman of GAN, (Games Account Networks), he led the board through a successful IPO on the Alternative Investments Market in London during 2012 and a subsequent listing on the NASDAQ.
Greg Chew
Founder
Greg Chew
Founder
Financial & legal professional, technologist, futurist, conceptual architect and veteran entrepreneur with 20 years commercial experience in capital markets, physical commodities and emerging markets. Greg focuses on the emergence of new, globally scalable solutions leveraging distributed ledger technology and robust digital ecosystems that solve systemic problems.
Matthew Low
Marketing
Matthew Low
Marketing
An experienced entrepreneur and distributed economy evangelist. Previously, Matthew worked as a senior Global Business Services consultant at IBM and was Head of Autonomous NEXT at Alliance Bernstein.
David Gilmore
Legal
David Gilmore
Legal
David Gilmore is the Founder and CEO of AKASHA Innovation Hub and a Commercial Lawyer with over 10 years' experience specialising in Corporate and Technology matters. He previously advised The Ethereum Foundation upon its inception in Switzerland and also holds the role of Head of Legal for the AKASHA Project based in Zug, Switzerland
Caoimhín O'Meallain
Financial
Caoimhín O'Meallain
Financial
COO of the AKASHA Innovation Hub & 08 Group. Experienced Finance Director, Caoimhín has worked in various industries including media, healthcare and fintech. He has gained senior finance and operations experience in both multinational and start-ups, focusing on operational performance, growth management and strategy implementation. He has worked and advised in Blockchain since 2016 and is an advisor for the AKASHA Foundation in Zug, Switzerland.
Ryan Leckey
Development
Ryan Leckey
Development
A leading distributed ledger technology developer and software engineer, and reputable GitHub contributor (@mehcode). Ryan has won numerous awards and hackathons held by Intel, IBM and the TM Forum
Alberto Trombetta
Science
Alberto Trombetta
Science
Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences - Computer Science Division - of Insubria University in Italy. Alberto is a specialist in applied cryptography, distributed data intensive systems and data analysis.
Killian O'Sullivan
IoT & Networks
Killian O'Sullivan
IoT & Networks
Killian’s 30+ years of experience covers many technical aspects of developing award-winning IoT and Network solutions for various global organisations. His most recent start-up was successfully bought out by Harris Corporation.
Emanuele Ragnoli
Technology
Emanuele Ragnoli
Technology
Serving as one of the foremost minds and leaders on next generation consensus protocols and cryptology from IBM Research. Prior to joining IBM, Emanuele had been working on the R&D of analytics and control systems in several settings with Intel Ireland, Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), Maynooth University and University College Dublin.
Eliza Paprocka
Finance
Eliza Paprocka
Finance
Master of Economics and ACCA Fellow. Eliza started her career as stagiaire in the Council of Europe Development Bank in Strasbourg. Then Eliza moved towards the Irish hedge fund administration industry along with seven years at PwC Asset and Wealth Management group, where she spent time working on statutory audits provided to asset managers such as Goldman Sachs and many others.
Anwitaman Datta
Research
Anwitaman Datta
Research
Anwitaman is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science& Engineering at NTU Singapore. He has co-authored over 200 academic papers (cited over 6600 times) on large-scale resilient distributed systems, information security and applications of data analytics.
Gökhan Sağırlar
Engineering
Gökhan Sağırlar
Engineering
Gökhan is a systems engineer who received his PhD degree from the University of Insubria in 2018, where he focused on privacy and security issues of blockchains and IoT. Before joining QPQ, he worked at IBM Research Ireland, as a research engineer and was part of the prestigious distributed systems team.
Massimo Perillo
Research
Massimo Perillo
Research
Massimo is a PhD student whose work is focused on cryptographic protocols for real world applications, enhancing security and privacy of data while allowing queries and computation on them. During his doctorate studies at the University of Salerno in Italy, he has been working as a researcher between the University College London in UK and the Stevens Institute of Technology in the US.
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