20|30 Group appoints Tim Pearce as Commercial Director
09 October 2019 - 10:12AM
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20|30 Group appoints Tim Pearce as Commercial Director
Pearce
excels in
accelerating growth
strategies propelling start-ups
and SMEs onto the
global stage
20|30
invests in bold and revolutionary start-ups with industry-changing
solutions built on blockchain
LONDON
–
9
October
2019
– ADVFN NewsWire
- 20|30 Group
has appointed Tim
Pearce as Commercial Director with immediate effect.
He reports
jointly into Tomer Sofinzon, CEO and Founder of 20|30,
and Christopher Skulte, Chief Operating Officer, and joins 20|30's Executive
Committee. In this newly created
role his is primarily responsible for driving sales
growth across 20|30's portfolio of companies.
Pearce has over
two decades' global strategy, sales, business development and
management experience, mainly in the technology space, having
worked at companies including NCR Corporation, Dimension Data and
Blenheim Chalcot. A truly global
citizen, Pearce has lived and worked across Europe, Australia,
South Africa and the United States and speaks six languages
(English, French, German, Afrikaans, Spanish and Greek). In
2012 he founded Bounce International, which works with businesses
either looking to accelerate their multinational
performance.
"20|30 is an
incredibly compelling proposition for me as I have always had a
passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, helping early stage
start-ups bring their visions and brands to life and succeed in
ways they only dreamed possible," observes Pearce.
"20|30 is growing
at a rapid
pace acquiring extraordinary
start-ups; all of which are
using DLT technology to develop
game-changing solutions which tackle a significant market
or society
issue."
Pearce
adds: "Blockchain is industry-agnostic, so the breadth and
variety of businesses joining the 20|30 portfolio is diverse and
limitless. Key is that they are solving a significant market
issue, are scalable, and with the right strategy, can turn a profit
very quickly. I am thrilled to join the remarkable team at 20|30
and cannot to play a part in the company redefining industries and
societies around the world."
"Tim has
an exceptional
track record in
working with new or small to medium-sized businesses looking
to design
scalable market strategies so that they can
become global and profitable
quickly," notes Tomer
Sofinzon, CEO and Founder of 20|30
Group. "He will play a vital role
in providing
strategic advice to our fast-growing portfolio of bold
and revolutionary start-up companies; accelerating their growth
strategies so that they excel on the global
stage in less than five years. We are delighted to welcome
him to our senior leadership team."
Publicly announced 20|30 portfolio
companies, as of September
2019, include:
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TokenFactory
–
is opening
an illiquid market and addressing an urgent market need for higher
yielding investment opportunities. The company
made history in
April 2019 by becoming the first UK company to successfully
tokenise and issue its own equity as part of the Financial Conduct
Authority's (FCA) Sandbox 4 in collaboration with the London Stock
Exchange Group.
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IDWorks
–
is
redefining identity. Identity today is
broken and as the world shifts from paper to digital, compliance
costs are soaring and cybercrime is a
$450 billion problem.
IDWorks
solutions create
absolute trust between organisations and users, and combat this
with the secure compliant streamlined engagement tools that
optimise and future proof relationships.
-
MetaVault
–
is the new
global standard in secure custodial and non-custodial digital asset
solutions for institutions and high-net-worth individuals.
Digital asset
crime is reported to have soared to record highs in 2018 with
losses topping an estimated $1.7 billion. MetaVault tackles these issues head-on
and removes the security risks of concern to investors considering
digital assets as part of their portfolios.
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Notes to
Editors:
20|30 is a
diversified portfolio of market leading products and
services that are
paving the way for a paradigm shift
in a number of industries utilising blockchain
and distributed
ledger technology.
A growing collection of
innovations, every company is tied together by a shared
ethos – a belief that decentralisation is a powerful force
reshaping societies and the organisations within them. Our mission
is to build the decentralised tools and infrastructure that will be
main stream by the year 2030. We start and acquire
promising companies as well as build our own
market-driven solutions in-house. For more information
visit
www.2030.io,
LinkedIn or
Twitter