Spiros Margaris
 

• Venture capitalist and founder of margaris ventures
• Fintech I Insurtech I Artificial Intelligence I Advisor I Board Member I Futurist I Thought Leader
• Global No 1 Finance and Fintech Influencer and Top AI Thought Leader
• Two fintech companies he advised have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion).
• Two fintechs  - STC Pay (06/2021) and Snappi (06/2024) - were granted a Banking License
• Spiros Margaris has been appointed as the Advisor to Company Management and Member of the Technology Advisory Board of a leading automotive retail technology solutions company OneDealer 10/2024
• Spiros Margaris joined as a venture partner of SparkLabs Group, NTAP, KAUST, and SDAIA in leading Saudi Arabia's AI.M Accelerator in Riyadh 06/2024
• Spiros Margaris has been appointed to the Technology Advisory Board of a leading fintech credit solutions company QUALCO 04/2024
• Winner 2024 Swiss Derivative Award: Best Active Managed AMC 'Margaris No. 1 Artificial Intelligence Basket' 04/2024
• My privilege to engage with Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji of India — a nation set to be world's third-largest economy by 2027 02/2024
• Nasdaq listing for SparkLabs'SPAC. Featured on the Nasdaq billboard in Time Square, New York 10/2023
• Spiros Margaris Ranked Global No. 1 Fintech Influencer by Onalytica 09/2022
• Meet the ‘finfluencers’: fintech influencers to follow now by Evening Standard, UK (08/2022)
• 50 outstanding AI in Business Influencers by engatica (03/2022) 
• 20 AI Influencers You NEED To Be Following by The AI Journal (09/2021)
• Named the Key Opinion Leader in Fintech (Who’s Who in Fintech?) by Onaytica (08/2021)
• Ranked the Top Global Neobanking Influencer in 2021 by Commetric (06/2021) 
• Ranked Global No. 1 Finance Influencer by Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters) (08/2020)
• Ranked the Global No. 1 Fintech Influencer by Onalytica (02/2020)
• Top Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Follow in 2020 (02/2020) 
• "The Triple Crown" in Fintech - Ranked No. 1 Fintech, AI & Blockchain Global Influencer by Onalytica (04/2018)
• Ranked the No. 1 Fintech influencer in the Digital Innovation Report within the US Banking Influencer Community (02/2019) 
• Ranked the global No. 1 Artificial Intelligence Influencer by Verdict and Global Data (12/2018)
• Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Influencers to Follow in 2019 (MarkTechPost April 2019)
​• TEDx Talks (2017)

Board member | Senior advisor

• Two fintech startups he advised have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion)
• Technology Advisory Board of leading credit solution fintech QUALCO
• Board Member of Super Wallet fintech barq
• Advisory Board of BaaS fintech (live 24/7, without the need of End of Day Consolidation) company Natech
• Advisory Board of US fintech/wealthtech company Invest with CARL - 'democratizes investments in hedge funds with smaller investment tickets' 
​• Venture Partner with SparkLabs Group, the network of global Accelerators & Venture Capital Funds in Palo Alto, California
• Advisory Board of healthcare company - 'Changing the game in radiation protection dosimetry' Herado
• Board Member of powerful media content cybersecurity solution company mediastalker.AI
• Advisory Board of fintech card issuing platform DPG - Digital Payments Group
• Advisory Board of fintech company 'All-In-One business banking solution' Fyorin

• Advisory Board of international strategy, branding and design agency zelebrand 
• Senior Advisor at IPR Strategies ​

Short bio

• Venture capitalist, futurist, keynote speaker, board member and senior advisor, is the founder of Margaris Ventures, and is the first international influencer to achieve ‘The Triple Crown’ ranking (the No. 1 Fintech, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain influencer by Onalytica).  He was also ranked the global No. 1 Finance Influencer by Refintiv (Thomson Reuters). Ranked the global No. 1 Fintech Influencer by Onalytica. He was named The Key Opinion Leader (KOL) in Fintech (Who’s Who in Fintech?) by Onaytica. He is a top AI influencer, ranked as one of the leading thought leader by several industry publications since 2017. He regularly appears in the top three positions of established global industry influencer rankings.
• Two fintech startup he advised have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion wefox and STC Pay).
• He is a keynote speaker at international FinTech and InsurTech conferences. He also gave a TEDxAcademy Talk. He published an AI white paper, “Machine learning in financial services: Changing the rules of the game,” for the enterprise software vendor SAP. First non-IBM Keynote Speaker at the biggest IBM event in Europe (10/2019) “2019 IBM Systems Technical University”.
• MBA Toronto University & EMBA Universität St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.
• Sotheby’s ‘Styles In Art’ Course, London.
• Investment committee member of one of the leading multi-family office fund advisory firms in Switzerland and Europe. Its 10-year return placed the firm within the top 5 percent among its peers.
• Been chosen as an Author for @TheFINTECHBook (Wiley will be the global publisher of The FINTECH Book available from January 2016) to write about the Future of FinTech. 
• Placed 2nd in the equities division of Financial Trader magazine’s trading competition. 
• Co-founder of a financial technology (fintech) company based in New York that developed software to bring measurable accountability to investment advice at financial institutions through an objective, proprietary tracking and rating system.
• Founder of one of the first innovative expert websites based in New York. Unlike traditional search engines and search sites, it provided an efficient mechanism, with a valuable human element, for users to find answers to their questions.