Dirk AVAU

Dirk is founder and CEO of IntellectEU, a Belgian-American-Ukrainian “Fintegration” and BlockChain company. IntellectEU has built a strong reputation in Financial Integration Services based on SWIFT, Founding Member of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger, Ethereum, DLT solutions, Banking APIs, Cash Management… IntellectEU has offices in New York, Brussels, Kiev, Lisbon and Chicago.

Dirk has a Masters degree in Science and Engineering, a postgraduate degree in Business Management and an MBA. He was researcher at IMEC, held different positions in IBM and commercial director B2B for Belgacom. He is the founder of IntellectEU BVBA, IntellectEU Inc and IntellectTechnologies LLC, together with co-founder Hanna Zubko, who was nominated Global FemTech Leader. He has been speaker at international conferences such as AFP, Sibos, and many others.