Our team
Teuta Oruci (aka Bakalli) FCCA, a finance industry leader with over 20 years of experience the City of London in regulated financial markets including fintech, cleantech, asset management, insurance and investment banking.
Teuta was Chief Financial Officer at the payment processing giant Worldpay, eCommerce, and at Pepper Europe. Her work history includes roles at such luminaries as Schroders, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Barclays Capital, before she joined Willis as FD and acting COO. She was also FD of Vanguard Europe, part of the $5.6 trillion investment group.
Most recently Teuta has taken up residence in the digital economy hotspot of Malta where she founded Cleantech360, offering business strategy and thinktank for the cleantech industry. As part of her involvement in this sector, Teuta has worked with numerous renewables and sustainability projects.
Marc has been involved in Climate Activism for a long time and would love to show you how to run faster than climate change by being an impactful and exponential human being. One of the first to be trained by Al Gore as a Climate Speaker he has made getting through the Climate Crisis towards Resilient Desirable Futures his life’s work.
As an Advocate for the SDG’s, UN Advisor and Resilient Futurist, Social Innovation, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food, and Beverage Expert Network member of the World Economic Forum, Global Food Reformist, and Sustainable Futurist, Marc is on a mission to empower billions of global citizens to live an adaptive lifestyle of health and sustainability within planetary boundaries. Marc is the host of Inside Ideas, a Video and Audio Podcast produced by OnePoint5 Media and Innovators Magazine.
His aim is to reform the agriculture, food and beverage industry with impactful projects and moonshot companies.
Currently Chair of Export Guarantees Advisory Council of UK Export Finance as well a Board member. I also am a non-executive director of Venus Minerals and have a number of other advisory positions in the climate and ESG space. I was Managing Director for Environment and Sustainability at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD) from 2001 to 2021. I was responsible for the delivery of the Bank’s commitments to promote environment and sustainable development in all its activities (all investments, technical cooperation and internal footprint). As part of this role, I instigated and developed 4 separate Environmental and Social Policies of the Bank and has led a task force on convergence of E&S, Integrity, and Procurement issues as part of the Heads of Institution meeting at the Bali WBG/IMF meetings.
In addition, I was the Senior Bank leadership of the NDEP and E5P Environmental Fund Management which triggered over 1,5 billion Euros of green investment in countries of the Eastern partnership, Russia and Belarus. As a result of my stewardship of NDEP, I was recently awarded a Knight of the Order of the White Rose by the President of Finland.
Prior to this role I worked in the private sector and as a Senior Vice-President of a major international environmental consultancy URS/Dames & Moore. Over my 16 years, I worked in over 50 countries.
Sandy is a highly experienced and entrepreneurial CEO with vast international expertise across several continents. Multilingual in English, French, and German, he possesses key strengths across operations, manufacturing, business turnaround, sales growth, and multi-channel networks.
He published SME Globalisation, has an MBA, and graduated from Harvard Business School. He is a strategic transformer who brings vision to an organisation. He builds and federates global teams around a common goal and vision whilst creating space for every member to develop and thrive.
Strongly multi-cultural, he has built and managed teams in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia-Pacific. He has been involved in turnarounds as well as mergers & acquisitions on both the buying and the selling side.
Catherine is CEO of the Quad Business Towers, the first LEED platinum rated office space development in Malta. A masters qualified engineer, prior to her current role Catherine led the “LNG to Power” project in Malta. This project introduced natural gas as fuel for electrical generation for the first time to Malta, along with the latest CCGT technology. As a result, national emissions from power generation were cut by 53% and particulate matter by 90%.
Before moving to Malta in 2014, Catherine was a senior executive in ESB Ireland, managing hydro and gas-fired power stations, increasing the hydro powered contribution to the grid and driving a large number of efficiency projects. She has recently consulted to renewable energy and smart building technologies start-up companies. Her passion is to use her experience and knowledge for the betterment of our planet.
Juergen started to get involved early with cryptocurrencies back in 2014. Today, he is a speaker and strategist who thinks ahead in terms of what will come next and how it affects our society and businesses. He laid the foundation for Austrianstartups.com, which has evolved into a proper foundation fostering the Austrian Startup ecosystem, and founded a number of companies throughout the last 10 years, such as RealLifeConnect (NFC event tech solutions) and Haexagon Concepts (transmedia storytelling strategies).
Today, he is managing director of Tokenization Limited – the world’s premier business development and strategy consultancy for tokenization. We are a global decentralized technology, blockchain and tokenization advisory, marketing and consulting syndicate. In recent years, he invested substantial time into trading cryptocurrencies and invested in a number of early blockchain companies through ICOs.
Consultant Upper GI and Trauma Surgeon. Actively involved in Trauma research and International trauma training. Course Director for multiple trauma courses including the Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills Course, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Also provide Trauma cover for Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix and other international motor sporting events. Trauma advisor for numerous corporations world wide.
Experiences in Trauma Surgery and Prehospital Medicine in Austere Environments.
Managing Director, Incubation & Acceleration, with 10+ years of experience in building and launching companies in the digital economy space. Technologist. Privacy expert. Tedx & Keynote Speaker.
Advisory provided on venture capital fundraising, product design, marketing, and go-to-market strategies. Active in healthtech, cleantech, deeptech, and blockchain industries.
Proud owner of an extensive background in the technology ecosystem and a global business network across over 100 countries (Asia, Middle East, Europe), and actively involved with companies and organisations, adding value via technical, strategic, and operational expertise.
Personal motto: There are multiple chances to make money, but only one to build a reputation.
Senior executive with an unusually diverse track record of setting up new businesses and leading transformation on three different continents. Have recently translated the knowledge and insight gained into offering advice to businesses of radically different shapes – FTSE100 to start ups: conventional finance to the digital world.