Nina, Co-FOUNDER

Nina is an international executive in digital and broadcast media with over 25 years experience in corporate strategy, business development, and product management.  Nina was Director of Business Development for Turner International (now Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.) covering Asia Pacific. She was the sales and marketing manager for British Sky Broadcasting in the UK. Prior to broadcast media, Nina was an advisor to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy on business development projects across Asia Pacific. She also held roles as financial controller at Royal Mail managing a marketing and advertising budget of £40m and was a consultant at data analytics company Acxiom and Westpac Banking Corporation. Nina holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Western Sydney University and post graduate Diploma of Management from the University of Technology, Sydney.  Nina is the co-founder and Chair of NBD Ventures and a board member of Bancstac, Jamax, Numo Labs and Paycorp.

KELVIN

Kelvin has over 20 years of experience in investments, fund management, corporate finance, business transformation and restructuring. Previously, Kelvin was a Chief Investment Principal of one of Asia’s largest single-family offices and managed over USD 6 billion of investments across Asia Pacific, Middle East, America and Europe. He has achieved returns exceeding 2.5x on principal capital invested over a 5 year investment horizon. Kelvin has led numerous corporate financing initiatives including issuance of corporate debt securities exceeding USD 1 billion. He was also responsible for invoice financing, factoring and reverse factoring with global technology companies including T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and others while at TCL / Alcatel, a global consumer electronics company. Kelvin led the implementation of the new Société Générale factoring system at TCL / Alcatel. Kelvin graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Commerce and earned an EMBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales. He is also an Australian Certified Practicing Accountant. Kelvin is the managing partner of NBD Ventures T&T Opportunity Fund.

Leon

Leon has over 20 years of legal experience practicing in London with law firms Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps, Cadwalader and Paul Hastings in addition to acting as in-house legal counsel at GE Capital. He has advised on over USD 30 billion of debt capital market issuances and cross-border financings across Europe and the United States and has represented institutional clients, focusing on banking, debt and equity capital markets, real estate finance, structured finance and cross-border M&A transactions. He was part of the team that established a multi-billion Euro regulated fund in Luxembourg with exposures across multiple asset classes, sectors and industries. Leon holds a Master’s of Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and a Juris Doctor, cum laude from the University of Turin. Leon is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales (solicitor), New York State, U.S.A. (attorney-at-law) and Italy (avvocato). Leon is an advisor to the Board of one of Europe’s largest single-family offices and a board member of NBD Ventures Management SARL.

John

John is one of Australia’s early pioneers in digital payments. When the internet was commercially available to the world in the early 90’s John identified the technology gap between electronic commerce and traditional merchant payment methods.  He was involved in developing electronic payment systems for Australian banks to handle and manage large numbers of digital merchants and their transactions for internet payments when the term “e-commerce” was initially coined in our lexicon. His experiences and investment culminated in a company group known as Paycorp. In 2017, John sold the Australia and New Zealand Paycorp operations to ASX listed MYOB for AUD 48 million, which was subsequently acquired by US private equity firm KKR for AUD 2.2 billion in 2019.

John holds a B.Ed Degree from the University of Canberra. He represented Australia between 1985 - 1992, as an international athlete in the 110m Hurdles, notably qualifying for the Seoul and Barcelona Olympic games as well as running at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Japan, and 1989 IAAF World Cup in Barcelona. Between training and competitions, John was a High School teacher and an entrepreneur. In 2019 John invited NBD Ventures to invest into  the Paycorp international operations to support existing bank partners and lead the next chapter of international growth. Bancstac was born and John has been appointed its Chair.

AMIR

Amir has over 20 years of deep technical experience in telecommunications systems, microprocessor engineering, as well as intelligent algorithms and design. He was a systems engineer at BH Telecom for 10 years. He designed single-chip microprocessors using a dynamically reconfigurable logic array at Tohoku University in Japan. Amir also lectured at the International University of Sarajevo on various IT subjects. He is a published author in both the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the International Journal of the Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy. Amir founded Jamax in 2013, a leading software solution development agency based in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was instrumental in successfully developing software solutions for numerous Fortune 500 companies in the technology, banking and airline sectors. Amir has been appointed the Chief Technology Officer at Bancstac to lead our innovation and superior technical talent for the group. Amir is a native Bosnian and speaks English, Turkish and Japanese fluently.

STANLEY

Stanley has over 20 years of strategy and architecture experience in the areas of enterprise architecture, digital transformation, integration and security. He has extensive and proven expertise in establishing and implementing large programs of technology enablement for Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies. Stanley currently holds a level one Australian federal security clearance (NV1). Stanley began his technology career in banking with Westpac where he delivered strategic technology projects for the bank. He then entered IT consulting through leading Australian firms such as UXC and Oakton Consulting where he is recognised for helping lead many large corporates and government departments in their enterprise architecture, digital transformation and IT architecture roadmaps as well as leading their technology strategy with the nbn, Endeavour Energy, the Australian Trade Commission and Department of Communities and Justice where he was pivotal in implementing PCI-DSS compliant solutions in which Westpac was the banking and payments provider. Stanley has been appointed the Chief Information and Security Officer with focus on ensuring Bancstac delivers well architected, secure and compliant products to our bank and strategic partners.