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 (wefox and STC Pay) have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion).
• 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 (wefox and STC Pay) he advised have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion)
• Board Member of SuperWallett fintech barraq
• 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 influencers 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.
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MARGARIS VENTURES
Lochstrasse 25 B
9404 Rorschacherberg (SG)
Switzerland
contact@margarisventures.com
MARGARIS VENTURES · Lochstrasse 25 B
9404 Rorschacherberg (SG) · Switzerland
contact@margarisventures.com
Copyright © 2023 Margaris Ventures
All rights reserved
MARGARIS VENTURES · Lochstrasse 25 B
9404 Rorschacherberg (SG) · Switzerland
contact@margarisventures.com
Copyright © 2023 Margaris Ventures
All rights reserved
MARGARIS VENTURES · Lochstrasse 25 B
9404 Rorschacherberg (SG) · Switzerland
contact@margarisventures.com
Copyright © 2023 Margaris Ventures
All rights reserved