The Team
Scientific Officer
& Founder
Bio
Chief Executive
Officer
Non-Executive
Officer
Legal &
Commercial Officer
Operations
Officer
Finance
Officer
Marketing &
Communications Officer
Technical
Officer
Asset Management
Officer
Dr A Hendawi
A leading expert and pioneer in the field of electro chemical separation and has more than 30 years’ experience with Senior Research Fellow appointments for leading environmental technology companies and holds two highly prestigious “R&D 100 Awards”, several patents, a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry, MSc in Nuclear Chemistry, BSc in Chemistry and in Physics.
Mark Stacey
An inspirational, values-driven leader with strategic, operational, commercial and marketing experience gained with Mars INC, Barcardi Martini Ltd and Syan Ltd at Director and Divisional Director level. With over 20 years of senior experience gained in large corporates and SME, building successful teams delivering profitable growth from Production and Demand Planning of £400m portfolio to a £10m P&L, sales and operational responsibility achieving record sales and profits.
Jamie Khurshid
An experienced financial professional and leader of European regulatory transparency in financial markets, Jamie is known for setting up two consortium ventures, (IHS) Markit Boat and LSEG`s Turquoise MTF. Most recently recognised for defining and successfully delivering the first voluntary transparency regime for the global bullion market on behalf of the London Bullion Market Association, authorised by the Bank of England with oversight from the UK FCA. Voted by Financial News as one of the top 40 under 40 in trading and technology in 2015 and ranked in the top 700 of the ‘Exchange invest’ Top 1000 most influential people in global financial markets in 2017.
Samantha Hurley
Samantha is a Director with over 20 years’ experience, working across the defence, renewable energy, clean tech, aerospace industries and central government. A certified Innovation Specialist with the Business West Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Europe Network, a Fellow at the Institute of Leadership and Management, a Fellow at the Strategic Management Forum and a qualified member of IACCM .
Doug Graham
Doug is a chartered chemical engineer with over 22 years’ experience in engineering, safety, project and operational management roles within COMAH hazardous process plant gained within the specialty chemicals (rubber chemicals, heat transfer fluids, plasticizers, sequestrants) and fine chemicals (fumed metal oxides) sectors. The latter was manufacturing nanoscale silicon metal oxides under GMP and HACCP manufacturing methods for both continuous and batch operations.
Ed Everson
Ed is an engineer and C-level strategist with over 25 years’ experience in global markets and finance, from policy and market creation through to enduring operations; he was a lead commercial architect of multi-party renewable energy certification across Europe and developed this model into a globally-recognised standard
Dr Chris Bakopoulos
Chris has over 20 years of experience in Project Management with a proven track record in IT, Telecoms and Engineering. Chris’s niche is dynamic project management planning and documentation of large scale projects, network roll-outs and migrations, out-sourcing management of the transition and associated problems of large scale networks from in-sourced to an out-sourced managed service environment, data and communications infrastructure.
John Argyriou
John's background is in private banking, institutional investment management and commodities, forex, fixed income and equity trading and has held Stock Exchange & Derivatives Licenses in the United States and Europe. He has worked for Premier Investment Houses and Hedge Funds including the financing of assets of the major insurance companies.
Emily Pavlou
Emily is an experienced Sales and Marketing Communications Expert, with over 20 years knowledge garnered across industry, with specialist knowledge in Financial Services. A proven track record in developing market changing strategies with demonstrable results, including gaining market share for clients, and winning numerous website/marketing campaign awards while at Citibank, Natwest and TBWA. A member of the CIM with full diploma status.
Meet Our Partners
Our Partners
Match Financial
Co-Founder & CTO
Naoris
Co-Founder & CEO
DLA Piper
Partner
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Digital RFQ
Co-Founder & Director
Match Financial Technologies (MT) have played a vital role in Onecycle's Security Issuance & fund raising strategy and implementation. MT intends implementing a Digital Match Technology Platform to match & introduce buyers and sellers of Onecycle's Securities.
Mike Greenacre
Mike’s initial career was in the geophysical exploration industry, working in Africa, US, Middle East and Asia. He began his trading and brokerage career in Switzerland, with an initial focus on steel and iron ore, before moving into precious metals trading and broking at GFI Group & ICAP Plc. He subsequently spent more than ten years managing the global OTC metals business at ICAP, before establishing Autilla Limited in 2013. Mike ranked in the Exchange Invest top 1000 most influential people in market structure, and in the top 20 for FinTech in 2017.
Craig Vallis
An entrepreneurial and driven technologist with a demonstrable track record of successfully delivering complex technical, development and transformation programmes throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa for over 25 years. Craig has worked with multinational corporations, enterprises, government agencies and early stage startups. Over the years clients have included BP, the GSM Association, Vodafone, De Beers, Kenya Commercial Bank, South African Revenue Services, South African Reserve Bank, Investec Asset Management and many more across Financial Services, Telecommunications, Mining, Energy and Utilities as well as Industrial sectors.
Naoris will secure Onecycle's entire ecosystem from cyber-security threats by implementing its revolutionary blockchain based security system. Naoris recently won Acquisition International's Cyber Security 2020 Award for @Most Disruptive Cyber Vendor 2020'.
David Carvalho
An experienced Global Chief Information Security Officer. David is heavily involved in global Blockchain projects and a well known Cybersecurity thought leader and speaker. David has held a variety of roles in different companies at the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) level and other very senior roles transversally in Cyber-Security for over 16 years, most recently at OCS Group, London City Airport, AT&T, Electronic-Arts, CryptoHeroes, SatoshiCat, among others. Currently he leads a large global cyber-security transformation for a business with more the 100K employees worldwide. He has led various Cyber-transformations, including one enabling the sale of a UK business for £3billion.
Our legal advisers are DLA Piper, one of the largest law firms in the world and a leader in FinTech and digital securities and technology. The team at DLA Piper is led by Partner Martin Bartlam.
Digital RFQ is an FCA registered EMD Agent enabling them to transact/exchange both FIAT and Digital Currencies and are fully compliant with KYC and AML processes. Onecycle has partnered with Digital RFQ to utilise their secure and seamless service platform to onboard and transact with potential investors.
Martin Bartlam
Martin Bartlam, who is acknowledged as one of the leading individuals in FinTech by Legal 500 and a leading authority on the development of digital securities. Martin is working with bodies such as Global Digital Finance to bring together regulators from around the world with leading technology development business to develop standards and conduct rules for the industry. Martin acts for some of the world's largest financial institutions and asset managers in the development of market infrastructure for digital securities including custody arrangements and digital exchange development as well as advising the full range of corporates from start-ups to large industry groups on the offering of financial instruments in digital form.