About Credify

Entrepreneur & investor with a passion for disruptive technologies, Makoto started his career pushing the envelope of wireless handset operating system design at Symbian and Nokia, then joined AuthenTec to lead applications engineering and integration of their embedded biometrics devices with global Tier-1 notebook PC and handset brands. After AuthenTec, Makoto made the transition from engineering to marketing & business development at Validity Sensors, where he spearheaded their embedded product as Technical Marketing Manager and eventually Director of Business Development, APAC. Both companies enjoyed successful exits; following which Makoto began a consultancy and early-stage investment firm whose portfolio now includes some of the leading technology companies in the blockchain space. Makoto is a polyglot with mastery of several East Asian languages, has managed ~60K followers on StockTwits and enjoys diverse subjects, including Finance, Economics, Philosophy and History.

With us from Credify's inception, Shuichi's an entrepreneurial minded full-stack developer with a wide range of skills. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Shuichi started his career as a software developer at Candle, Inc., where he built one of the biggest web media platforms in Japan as a core developer. 10 months after joining Candle it was acquired by CROOZ, Inc. After the acquisition, Shuichi moved to AnyPay, Inc. where he built and delivered a P2P money transfer application, called paymo, over the course of one year. Shuichi was the first iOS developer at AnyPay where he led the team. Gross merchandise volume of paymo exceeded 2 million yen a few months after launching. At AnyPay he was also involved in crypto products including an Ethereum wallet. Shuichi is passionate to learn new stuff and enjoys building things in a fast-paced and diverse environment.

Maurizio has over 20 years of international finance experience, with expertise in credit derivatives, structured finance and fund management. Prior to Credify, Maurizio’s most recent roles were as Managing Director at UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, and as Partner at TriSpan LLP, an asset management firm based in London, where he was deputy Chief Investment Officer of TriSpan’s global macro fund. Maurizio holds an MPhil in Financial Economics from the University of Cambridge and a first class honours degree in Economics and Management from Royal Holloway College of the University of London.

Alfonso is a PhD student at Imperial College London, where he conducts research at the intersection of law, economics and computer science. His most recent work focuses on split contracts, which are contracts that are governed by both natural language and smart contract code. Alfonso has also given talks on smart contracts and the regulation of initial coin offerings at various conferences and institutions. He is an advisor to several regulatory bodies, investment funds and start-ups working in the emerging technologies space. Prior to this, Alfonso obtained an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and graduated with a distinction.

Keisuke has been working as a software engineer for more than thirty years, and has a lot of diverse knowledge and experiences, specifically: (1) device drivers, middleware, applications development for Windows and Linux platforms, (2) architectural design (client-server, layered, etc.) of software components, (3) web server/client applications development, desktop applications development, (4) Windows technology (MFC, COM, DirectX/DirectShow, .NET, Driver Frameworks), (5) audio/video compression technology (MPEG/DVD/HDV/MPEG-4/H.264, MP3/AC-3/MPEG-4 AAC), (6) communication (TCP/IP network, USB, IEEE1394). Keisuke has been learning and challenging new software technologies constantly, and, as a result, he accomplished successful first in-house products such as debuggers for Windows at Justsystems Corporation, and such as the MPEG encoder board MVR-D2000, the USB device MTU-2400, and MEDIAEDGE video streaming solution product at Grass Valley K.K.. And as one of his latest challenges, Keisuke has been trying writing smart contracts with EOS from its inception. Keisuke has strong C/C++ coding skill, and to maintain it, he's been challenging the past problems from world-wide programming contests at UVa Online Judge, where, as of writing this (2/8/2020), his ranking is 62 (out of 356,618 users).