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Launched in 2017, Young Champions of the Earth is a global initiative aiming to identify, celebrate and support talented individuals between the ages of 18 and 30 with outstanding potential to create positive environmental impact. The winners will be receiving their award during the high-level Champions of the Earth Ceremony in New York City on 26 September, coinciding with the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. For all the urgent environmental challenges we face, these Young Champions are a powerful reminder that the solutions to these challenges are within our grasp,” Head of UN Environment Erik Solheim said. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-tech materials for sustainable development, we are partnering with UN Environment in motivating innovators to tackle the enormous challenges our planet is facing.

Before this role, I was a tech long only PM at RCM, I was one of the founders of Europe’s first tech independent research firm, Arete Research, and I was a tech hedge fund manager at HSBC, Balyasny and Morgan Stanley. I speak to investors focused on tech about ideas, help them identify emerging themes in tech, source industry experts to help them understand these themes and then work with our analysts to provide research that identifies the most attractive companies to invest in. I bring investors to Shenzhen all the time and the pace of innovation there is rapid, not just in hardware, but also in internet due to the cluster developing around Tencent and Ping An Insurance, which has invested $50bn in Ai and already spun out 2 leading fintech companies, Zhong An Insurance and Ping An Healthcare. By 2030, the region’s GDP is expected to reach US$4.6 trillion, surpassing the Tokyo, New York and San Francisco bay areas to become the world’s largest bay area in terms of the size of its economy.

When I decided to go off on my own and start my own venture, I focused on helping startups with equity crowdfunding – a similar line of work to what I was previously doing in the corporate world. The aim is to tell the untold story of the Internet gold rush, showcase the creative methods that people are using to ‘hack the system’ as they make money online from their laptops. When I became interested in it (as many did, during the height of the 2017 boom), I couldn’t find a decent book with the exact steps a newcomer needs to get started. There, they can grab sample chapters of all of my books for free, and read about my journey in startups, alternative finance and borderless living.

The MJAC & CryptoCompare London Blockchain Summit is on Friday, 30th November (9am-6pm) and is being held at Old Billingsgate, London. MJAC, which is the disruptive technologies conference arm of ADVFN – a leading global stocks, shares and crypto information website for private investors – held its first event in Los Angeles in September 2017. The CryptoCompare & MJAC London Blockchain Summit was a well-organised and well-attended event, a great platform for discussing the key industry issues. What’s brilliant about events such as the CryptoCompare & MJAC London Blockchain Summit is that they offer an intersection between the traditional finance community and the fast-paced developments in the Crypto Economy.