We are a team of professionals using our commercial expertise to support refugee entrepreneurs in new and innovative ways.
This is our way of making the world a more inclusive place.
This is our way of making the world a more inclusive place.
Our credentials
Born at the UNICEF FinTech Jam for Good 2016, London
Winners of the Infosys Challenge for Financial Inclusion
Members of F10 - FinTech Accelerator, Zurich, 2016/17
Members of Entrepreneurial Spark, London, 2017/18
Members of the Decentralised Incubator 2018
Pitch@Palace 11.0 2019
Winners of the Infosys Challenge for Financial Inclusion
Members of F10 - FinTech Accelerator, Zurich, 2016/17
Members of Entrepreneurial Spark, London, 2017/18
Members of the Decentralised Incubator 2018
Pitch@Palace 11.0 2019
Our Team
Michael Moon Adviser, Coach & Mentor Michael has worked with some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our age - including Steve Jobs. He is the CEO of GISTICS, a Silicon Valley based think tank. He is helping us to scale and grow this FinTech for Good project. He has also worked with companies such as SAP and HP during their early days.
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Zufi Deo Co Founder - Strategy Zufi was a UK Top 50 Business Adviser for 2014 & 2018. He has over 20 years experience in the SME sector. He has an action learning based MBA. He was a Guest speaker at Wharton Social Entrepreneurs, 2018 and a Panel member at Fintech Week London 2019 - FinTech, Social Impact & Emerging Markets.
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Our Volunteer Co-workers
Jackie is the founder of Global Cadence, a PR and social media marketing company focused on tech companies and social enterprises. She is supporting BizGees with its media and social out reach.
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Coleman is a Business Admin Student at Washington and Lee University in the US. She is the Secretary of Kappa Kappa Gamma and co-chair of the Promise Committee (a committee dedicated to making students aware of the dangers of drunk driving)).
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Josephine is an experienced Economist and researcher based in Nigeria. She is a Business / Finance analyst at Business Day Media in Nigeria.
She is supporting BizGees understand the refugee expereince locally in NIgeria. |
Jasmine has a passion for leveraging the blockchain supporting businesses. She has previous experience as a co- founder of a blockchain-based startup. She has also worked for Vodafone and Applied Blockchain. She is supporting BizGees with developing our crypto and holochain capacity, while growing the business overall.
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Learn more about our volunteering program here.
Advisers
Kilian Kleinschmidt,
Refugee Affairs Adviser Kilian has spent over 25 years in international development. He has held senior posts with the UN including UN Camp Manager in Zaatari, Jordan and Camp Manager in Kenya. He was a UN Special Envoy to Pakistan. He is helping BizGees to understand how best to serve the needs of refugee populations. |
Gerry Creedon,
Finance Adviser Gerry is an experienced CIMA professional. He has 20 years' experience in entrepreneurial organisations. He worked at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for 18 years as an accountant. During this time, he worked on several multi-million pound projects. He is supporting BizGees with organising its internal financial capacity. |
Jana Essebier,
Legal Adviser Jana is a Senior Partner at Vischer AG, a Swiss law firm based in Zurich. She has worked on several ICOs in the Crypto Valley. She is supporting BizGees with its Crypto capacity. . |
George Neris,
Arts Adviser George is the founder of ArtFix where he is working on making the arts accessible and part of daily life. He is supporting BizGees with its art4refugees fund raising campaigns. |
Past Advisers
Stephanie Rupp, Investment Adviser
Stephanie brings more than 17 years of experience in global impact investing, impact fund design and implementation, and micro-finance, as well as crowdfunding. Currently, she is the MD of Tiedeman Wealth Management. She helped us in becoming investment-ready. 
Ondrej Dusilek, Ex Co- Founder and Adviser
Ondrej has 12 years of experience in financial markets with specific experience in trading, clearing, risk management, regulation and crowdfunding. His work has focused on the CEE, UK & Azerbaijan regions. |
Francis Chen, Tech Adviser
Francis led the tech development for the Micro Chain project during his master's at MIT. Micro Chain is a customised version of blockchain designed for the peer-to-peer, not-for-profit finance market. 
Lars Diener-Kimmich, Mentor
Lars has two decades of experience working in large enterprises and in a startup. He now leads LUDENSFABER, which enables organisations to run one-of-a-kind innovation projects like a startup, but in a corporate context. He supported us during the F10 program. He joined us on our UX trip to Zaatari UN Camp. |
Programs helping us along our journey...
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Our innovation ecosystem...
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