Ruben Merre

Ruben Merre is a serial entrepreneur who launched his first small business when he was eight years old. Prior to NGRAVE, Ruben worked for a startup in strategy and management consulting, playing an integral role in scaling the company internationally. Fluent in six languages, Ruben could really make the difference by leading projects in the local tongue. Apart from collecting multiple postgraduate degrees in parallel with his professional life, Ruben played a crucial part in launching the first automated portfolio investment platform in Belgium. Ruben not only led the project, he also unraveled the algorithm black box by rebuilding the full mathematical logic from scratch, ultimately proposing important quantitative readjustments of the implemented models. After scaling the platform to other countries, this combination of a strategic, visionary helicopter view and an experienced project management eye for detail made Ruben the obvious choice to lead a large international financial institution's entrepreneurial endeavor to set up a group-wide algorithmic trading / investment platform from scratch. Ruben led all twenty sub-projects for about two years, then decided to shift his focus completely to blockchain and, ultimately, NGRAVE. Ruben has a M.Sc. in Business Engineering (MBE), several postgraduate degrees, and is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional) and LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt. Ruben also successfully completed Oxford University's Blockchain Strategy Program.