Team & Advisors
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olbra finance is led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs, technologists, creatives, and investors with proven track records in fintech, blockchain, compliance, and capital markets the leadership combines global execution experience with a deep commitment to poland’s financial sovereignty and european digitalisation founding team wojciech sobczuk — chief technology officer wojciech is a technology innovator with nearly 30 years of experience in building, scaling, and securing global digital platforms in the 1990s, he conducted one of the first major gsm penetration tests, and by feb, 2004 he had launched a social network that grew to over 2 million users with intel capital as an investor he later built an encrypted messenger for the israeli military and served as cto of a tv and modelling industry startup acquired by castingnetworks com, where he rebuilt the company’s core technology he went on to develop music com together with pharrell williams’ team and contributed to the development of servicetitan’s mobile app and backend , now a platform preparing for ipo at an $18 billion valuation more recently, wojciech has focused on web3 adoption, working on projects such as punksclub io , which brings together cryptopunks holders and builds consumer friendly blockchain applications in addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, wojciech is the co founder and cto of venturedevs , a global technology company, and a managing partner at advantage ventures he was responsible for creating the billing system used by egnyte com (a google backed investment) , and has served as a strategic cybersecurity advisor for both government and private clients as a mentor, he has supported the next generation of founders through masschallenge, reaktorx, and mit enterprise forum , and is a member of the forbes technology council patrick gajda — chief executive officer experienced entrepreneur and investor with over 15 years of expertise in restructuring and modernising companies through cutting edge technologies member of eban (european business angel network) founder and visionary behind the canadian company sc space & data inc , created to build a lunar data centre with next generation laser communications since 2014, a serial investor and supervisory board member in startups across the space sector, ai, fintech, it, and blockchain currently co founder and ceo of olbra finance , the issuer of poland’s first regulated digital złoty, driving the mission to anchor poland in the global financial future maciej zientara — investor & board member specialist in advanced financial engineering, m\&a, and capital structuring a dynamic entrepreneur, angel investor, and lead financier with over 25 years of experience in the polish capital markets founder and principal investor of supernova group , overseeing projects in poland, croatia, cyprus, and the u s the group has executed nearly 100 projects worth over €500m , and currently manages 40 active capital and real estate projects valued at €250m+ maciej is also a partner at jrh asi sa and the majority shareholder of soho development sa , listed on the warsaw stock exchange (gpw) he graduated from the warsaw school of economics (sgh) , completed the advanced management programme at iese business school in barcelona , and studied at stanford university in california
