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THE SPAC BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TOM HALAPATZ
KEREM TURKMEN
Vice President Commercial Business Development
Vice President Business Development Middle East/North Africa
Tom cut his teeth in the office equipment industry as the owner of a Konica Minolta dealership, which exited to a public company. Tom has initiated hundreds of thousands of prospecting calls and participated in over fifty thousand sales appointments. His wealth of real-world experience and success has made him a sought-after internationally acclaimed speaker, sales coach, and trainer to many of Canada’s largest investment companies and corporations such as Investors Group Financial Services, Sun Life Financial, Freedom 55 Financial, and MGA Investment channels across Canada. By challenging conventional assumptions about the traditional sales process, he helps investment advisors and entrepreneurs at any level achieve true sales success. His common-sense approach to professional selling is refreshing, unique, and results-focused. Currently, Tom sits as LODE’s Vice President of Commercial Business Development. He works with retail and commercial investors worldwide for the adoption of LODE’s suite of digital assets.
HABIB AKUDI
Over the last twenty years, Habib has focussed his career on stock and currency trading, and Islamic banking in the United Kingdom, Middle East and India. He assists clients in structuring downstream blockchain products to be compliant for the Islamic banking world. Habib creates hybrid strategies by merging innovative banking that provide solutions to the significant and growing population of the unbanked. Currently, Habib is a private banking, fintech banking and payments consultant. From 2007 to the present, he has worked with UHNI/HNI.
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Kerem, is a serial entrepreneur, avid strategist, and blockchain evangelist. A strategic advisor who can think outside the box practically and efficiently to create ‘new age’ solutions to ‘old economy’ problems. Kerem takes pride in pursuing his global network, business acumen and experiences to unlock the true potential of upcoming digital change in every aspect of financial services. To keep on top of the ever-changing blockchain and digital economy, Kerem dedicates a lot of his time to research and networking globally.
MARCUS MEURS Vice President Business Development LODE Americas S.A. de C.V.
Marcus has spent thirty successful years in the global food industry which included starting three agritech food processing companies from scratch through to sale or public listings. Today, Marcus is applying his expertise to grow and build companies seeking to make a difference in the world. With extensive experience in Latin America, he believes this is achieved through disruption, innovation, vertical integration, perseverance and good governance scaled to a global level. Marcus is relentless in his efforts to recognize “out of the box” opportunities – which has led him recently to be involved in fintech, blockchain, and AI projects. He is a market disruptor and dealmaker who finetunes new technologies to emerging markets and strategic partners.
