Bundesblock Experts
The Experts Board is one of the organs of Bundesblock, as well as the Political Advisory Board, which supports us especially in technical issues.
The experts are people with special expertise in blockchain, DLT and/or Web3. They are characterised by many years of professional involvement in the blockchain community and a connection to the Bundesblock.
This includes, for example, founding members or former board members, people who chair one of our working groups or who are active in a regional initiative.
Applications to become an expert are possible and will be reviewed by the Executive Board accordingly.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Ittner
Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
- Professor of Computer Science (Distributed Information Systems) at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
- Director of the Blockchain Competence Center Mittweida (BCCM) at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
- Member of the Digital Council of the Bundesbank and the State government of the Free State of Saxony
Anne-Sophie Gógl
Digital Euro Association
- Board member of the Digital Euro Association, think tank focused on CBDC, stablecoins, crypto assets and other forms of digital money
- Areas of focus: Digital Euro
Christoph Jentzsch
Founder, Corpus.ventures
- Founding member of Bundesblock
- Co-founder and CEO at corpus.ventures/ Tokenize.it, formerly Ethereum Foundation, TheDAO and Slock.it.
- Areas of focus: DAOs, legal (enterprise tokenization), Web3 development.
Dr. Christoph Wronka
Partner, advant breiten
White Collar Crime & Compliance
- Professur für Wirtschaftsrecht an der SRH University of Applied Science (Hamburg)
- Member of the Technical Expert Group on AML/CASPs of the European Banking Authority
- Areas of focus: Money laundering prevention, compliance, financial management, digital assets, DeFi
Eugen Nussbaum
Gründer, Studio Nussbaum & AvaTellings
- Experte für Blockchain-, Web3 und Tokenisierungsstrategien
- Speaker zum digitalen Geschäftsmodellen, KI und technologischer Transformation
- Schwerpunkte: Medien, Education, Content-Produktion und digitale Kommunikation
Prof. Dr. Fidelio Tata
International School of Management (Berlin)
- Professor of Corporate Finance at the International School of Management (Berlin)
- Executive experience in derivatives marketing, institutional sales, risk management, and global fixed-income research
- Areas of focus: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Digital Euro, Digital Assets Evaluation
Frank Hartmann
Consulting
- Kassenprüfer des Bundesblocks
- Co-founder and advisor of several digital start-ups
- Areas of focus: Science Supply Chain, NFT&Metaverse, Finance
Friederike Kleinfercher
Max Planck Digital Library
- Deputy General Manager at Max Planck Digital Library
- Initiator of bloxberg Blockchain
- Co –Founder & CEO blxb labs GmbH
- Area of focus: Science
Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe
Professor Strategy and Organization, TUM
- Chair of Strategy and Organization at the Technical University of Munich, research on the digital transformation of companies.
- Scientific Director of the Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (IHF)
- Areas of focus: Dao, Healthcare, Legal, Science
Dr. Joachim Schwerin
Dr. Joachim Schwerin
- Economist
- 25 years of experience in the public sector in Europe
- Blockchain policy development and projects; financial market regulation; coordination of industrial and competition policy
- Academic focus: Economic theory and history (innovation and growth, token economics, DAOs) in research and teaching
Mahsa Doorfard
coinIX
- Sales & Marketing Manager at coinIX
- DLT-, Bitcoin- und ReFi-Talent at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
- Member of „Global Women in VC“
- Expert at ECOTA (European Carbon Offset Tokenization Association)
- Web3 Mentor at SystAIn3r (100 Women in AI & Web3 for Sustainability)
- Areas of focus: Web3 Infrastructure, DePIN, ReFi
Marcel Kaiser
Defiria
- CEO and Co-Founder of Defiria
- Mentor in the DeFi Talents program
- Research contributions on the topic of DeFi
- Areas of focus: DeFi, institutional adoption, Web3 risks crypto, DeFi risks
Mariana de la Roche Wills
BlackVogel
- CEO und Co-Founder von BlackVogel
- Co-Founder von DAAvern
- Schwerpunkte: Regulierung digitaler Vermögenswerte, DAOs, digitale Identität, Tokenisierung von Vermögenswerten
Matthias Steger
Tax advisor
- Managing Director Matthias Steger Consulting
- Tax consulting company - Author and lecturer for the German Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors and tax advisor associations on crypto and taxes
- Collaboration in the Working group taxes
- Area of focus: Taxes
Dr. Maximilian Austerjost
Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), Dortmund
- Team Leader for DLT Engineering & Management, "Purchasing and Finance in SCM" Department
- Main focus: Application potentials of cooperative IT systems for supply chain management, logistics and production.
Prof. Dr. Michael Henke
Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML), Dortmund
- Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
- Holder of the chair for
Corporate Logistics (LFO) of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University - Focus: Industry 4.0 and platform economy, supply chain management
Dr. Moritz Böhmecke-Schwafert
Technical University of Berlin
- Postdoc and lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin
- Manager at EY
- Advisory services for the EU Commission and ministries on digital innovation in the public sector
- Focus: Blockchain and sustainability, regulation
digital innovations, decentralised finance (DeFi), digital identities, digital innovations in emerging markets, blockchain and global value chains
Oliver Christian Schroen
Tax advisor
- Tax consultant in national and international tax law
- Technical papers in DStR, NWB, BB
- Guest lecturer and adjunct lecturer at Berlin universities
- Since 2019 Co-Head of the Tax Working Group at Bundesblock
- Focus: taxation of distributed ledger technology phenomena
Philipp Hornung
Specialist lawyer for tax law
- Expert on taxation of cryptocurrencies and NFTs
- (Tax) advisor for projects in the Metaverse
- Focus: Taxes, NFTs, Metaverse
Prof. Dr. Philipp Maume
Professor of Law, TUM
- Professor of Corporate and Capital Markets Law (Corporate Governance & Capital Markets) TUM School of Management, focus on the regulation of new technologies in the financial markets
- Publications on crypto law, one of the managing editors of the Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht (BKR) (Journal for Banking and Capital Markets Law)
- Areas of focus: Finance, law, secondary DAOs and NFTs.
Philipp H. Seeck, CAIA
Genesis 256 GmbH
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Founder & Managing Director von Genesis 256
- Über 10 Jahre Corporate Finance-Erfahrung, zuletzt als Vice President im Investment Banking bei Barclays in Frankfurt und London
- Areas of focus: AI x Digital Assets (incl. Agentic & Machine Economy, Decentralized AI, among others), Onchain Markets, Tokenization & Stablecoin Infrastructure, Institutional Digital Assets & TradFi Convergence, Bitcoin-native Assets & Infrastructure
Ricky Lamberty
Robert Bosch GmbH
- Expert for digital assets & Web3 at Robert Bosch GmbH
- Member of the Digital Finance Forum of the Federal Ministry of Finance
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Fetch.ai Foundation
- Areas of focus: Web3 & Token Economy, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Digital Euro, Metaverse
Sarah Gottwald
Blockchain Founders Group
- Managing Director of Blockchain Founders Group, promoting blockchain and web3 startups.
- Podcast host and board member at ITSA (International Token Standardization Association)
- Areas of focus: Venture Capital, Startups, Startup Building, Investing
Sarah Rentschler-Gerloff
Convista Consulting AG
- Head of Digital Euro as well as Treasury Working Group
- Beratung und Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle und Services in der Finanzindustrie auf Basis der DLT und Blockchain Technologie
- Areas of focus: Digital euro, business scaling, digital assets
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Omlor
Institute for the Law of Digitization, University of Marburg
- Professorship for Civil Law, Commercial and Business Law, Banking Law and Comparative Law
- Founding director of the Institute for the Law of Digitization (IRDi) at Philipps University Marburg
- Management of the BMJ research project "Blockchain and Law".
- Areas of focus: Corporate, banking and capital markets law
Simon Engel
SAP
- Senior Product Manager at SAP with a focus on payment solutions, strategic co-innovation and Web3 solutions
- Cross-product management and design of product strategies for payment transactions
- Focus on Web3 industry adoption
- Areas of focus: DeFi, DAOs, stablecoins and start-up investments
Stefan Grasmann
- Unabhängige Stimme zu Digital Assets und dem neuen Finanzsystem.
- Fokus auf Adoption der Blockchain-Technologie im Finanzsektor
- Schwerpunkte: tokenisierte Kapitalmärkte, Stablecoins und digitales Geld, Custody und Wallets, Konvergenz von Digital Assets und KI mit agentischen Zahlungen.
Dr. Steffen Härting
- Senior Manager at Deloitte GmbH
- Algorithmic Trading
- Areas of focus: Risk management and international capital markets, with a focus on international connections between Latin America and Europe in the field of crypto-assets and digital assets
Steffen Jordan
NOAA PARTNERS
- Graduate economist with over 20 years of experience in the financial market
- Co-founder of the consulting firm NOAA PARTNERS (advises companies on go-to-market and growth strategies)
- Angel investor / early-stage investor with focus on DLT & DeFi
Steffen Schwalm
msg
- Senior Manager Digital Identity and Trust at msg
- Participation in international standardization regarding DLT, SSI and security, e.g. in ISO, ETSI, CEN
- Co-design of the European digital identity and trust framework (Large Scale Pilots and European Blockchain Infrastructure EBSI).
- Areas of focus: Digital Identities, SSI, eIDAS (including QTSP Electronic Ledger), NFT, Metaverse, Legal Compliance & Security
Werner Hoffmann
Pekuna
- Founder of Pekuna, expert on crypto taxation
- Experience as a tax official, speaker and lecturer, focus on communicating and disseminating knowledge around blockchain and tax/regulatory issues.
- Collaboration in the Working group taxes
- Focus: taxation of crypto assets
Yannik Heinze
softstack GmbH
- Co-Founder & CEO of softstack GmbH
- Mentor of various Web3 Accelerator programs
- Areas of focus: Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Web3 Software Development, Compliance & Security
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner †
Honorary member of the Experts Board
Philipp Sandner was the founder of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
As such, he has had a significant influence on both Bundesblock and the German-speaking blockchain industry.
