Quantum Blockchain Technologies Plc
QBT:LN
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Quantum Blockchain Technologies has commenced an aggressive R&D and investments programme in the dynamic world of Blockchain Technology, which includes cryptocurrencies mining and other advanced blockchain applications.
Quantum’s R&D will focus on Cryptography; bringing together the most advanced implementation techniques and functions, along with quantum computing technologies and AI deep learning, to develop a new and disruptive approach to blockchain technology.
Our investment programme is focused on selecting the most innovative and out-of-the-box start-ups in the Blockchain and cryptocurrencies sector, with whom we will work alongside to develop exciting synergies.
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Francesco Gardin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Francesco graduated in Theoretical Physics at Padova University in 1979, before undertaking a UK Government research project at Exeter University (UK) from 1980 to 1982. In 1983 he was employed by the Italian National Research Council and from 1984 to 1985 he worked at the European Union Research Centre in Ispra, Italy as Co-ordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1983, Francesco Gardin founded AISoftw@re SpA to develop and distribute Artificial Intelligence systems within Italy, which he took public which on NASDAQ Europe in 1999 and Milan Stock Exchange in 2000. He sold the company in 2005 through a merger and agreed to remain as non executive Chairman until March 2008. The company is now called Exprivia and when he left it employed more than 1,400 people with revenues in excess of £70m. In February 2002 Professor Gardin became Chairman of The Company and although he resigned from the Board in February 2011 he has continued to provide advice to the Board without payment for his services. Since 2006 he has also worked extensively in China, and in March 2007 became CEO of China IPO Group plc, wholly owned by Brainspark plc, focusing on investments in China. In March 2008 he became a Board Member of IPO Beijing Investment Consulting Company Ltd., the China IPO Group plc Chinese subsidiary, with offices in Beijing and Xi'an. The company was subsequently demerged from Brainspark in December 2009. On 18 December 2008 he was appointed executive Director of London Asia Capital plc, a UK company investing in Asia, to review and maximize the returns of the investment portfolio. He resigned in July 2013. On 2nd October 2013 he was appointed to the board of Pan European Terminals PLC, listed on AIM of the London Stock Exchange. He resigned in July 2014 following a successful June bid for the company, which was then taken private. In December 2014 he founded, together with a business partner, First IPO Capital Ltd, a UK company aiming at financing IPO costs to companies listing on the London AIM market. During the last twenty years, he has been Director of almost fifty companies in Italy, UK, USA, Israel, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Mauritius and Jersey. Since 1984 to 2014, he has been Research Associate Professor at Udine, Milano and Siena University lecturing Artificial Intelligence, Theory and Application of Computation, and Virtual Reality. His academic papers include more than 50 individual and joint publications and three books on the subject of Artificial Intelligence as editor.
Peter Fuhrman
Non-Executive Director
Peter (age 63), a US citizen, currently based in Shenzhen, China, has extensive experience in High-Technology, Semiconductors, Finance and Investment industries. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1980 in Chinese History, and also holds an M.Phil degree in International Relations from Cambridge University. He did additional postgraduate studies at Nanjing University, and as a Yale-in-China Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Peter is currently: Chairman and CEO at China First Capital, among China’s older specialist international investment banks. It is a principal investment company in the technology sector, with deep experience and expertise in China's semiconductor industry, advanced manufacturing, robotics, precision automation, nano-positioning, photonics and breakthrough energy technologies, and Strategic Advisor on advanced technologies and market expansion for CEOs of one of China's largest listed high-technology manufacturing companies as well as one of Germany's and Europe's largest market-leading semiconductor technology companies He previously was the CEO of Awareness Technologies, a Los Angeles based Cloud-based enterprise security software company (which he successfully sold in 2008) and, in London, Peter was Head of Europe at Forbes Inc., publisher of Forbes Magazine, one of the world’s largest and most successful business publications. Peter is an “Industry Thought Leader” who has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, China Daily, The South China Morning Post. He speaks English, Mandarin Chinese and Italian. Finally, Peter has given guest lectures and has been a speaker on China-related topics and innovation at the University of Chicago’s Business School, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and Harvard Business School’s global alumni.