team

Cathmere’s founding team brings decades of experience in early-stage investment, technology-led new venture creation, financial markets, business building in global markets and management.

  • Founding CEO

    In addition to serving as CEO of Cathmere, Frans is Chairman of African Asset Finance Company, Inc., and serves on a number of affiliated company boards.

    Previously Frans founded Tribute Capital, was a managing partner at Logispring, served as (interim) CEO of a number of industrial groups, and was a junior partner at Gilde Investment Funds. He has also co-founded several businesses including several equipment leasing companies.

  • VP Software Engineering

    Matt is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience building high-performing teams and bringing new software technology and products to market in the US and globally in highly regulated industries including finance, medical and military/defense.

    Prior to joining Cathmere, Matt led the design and implementation of Blockchain Regulatory and Compliance Technologies at Paxos. His prior experience also includes senior technology leadership positions at Canonical and Northrop Grumman.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Kjell-Erik is a senior blockchain engineer and researcher specializing in blockchain interoperability and digital assets, with experience from high-profile central bank digital currency and programmable financial market infrastructure projects.

    Previously, he served as Senior R&D Software Engineer at Quant Network, where he was responsible for, inter alia, blockchain interoperability, central bank digital currency, tokenization, and programmable money.

    Prior to Quant, he served as Head Software Engineer at the University of Bergen where he focused on blockchain for healthcare and scientific (climate change) data.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Kirill is an engineering leader specialized in building data-intensive systems at the intersection of traditional software engineering and machine learning.

    Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineer at BANYAN (acquired by Bilt) where he was responsible for building mission-critical data systems on Google Cloud, natural language-to-SQL interfaces, and data visualization portals serving enterprise clients

    Priorr to Banyan, he was a Senior Software Engineer with MediaMath Intelligence Team, where he focused on ML models processing millions of daily data points, and analgorithmic trading tool.

    Before MediaMath he was a Lead Software Engineer at Octane11 where he was responsible for a full-stack development integrating multi-channel advertising data, and an advanced analytics dashboards on GCP with Kubernetes

  • office manager

    Christine has been involved with Cathmere from the moment she joined AAFC as executive assistant in early 2023, and formally joined Cathmere a year later.

    Previously, Christine worked for more than fifteen years in several departments at Goldman Sachs and at Bank of America, with roles ranging from project lead to senior executive assistant.

  • senior technology advisor

    Brad is an experienced growth technology executive, having served in strategic, investment and operating roles. He translated the original ideas for Cathmere’s platform into an architectural framework that the team is now using to build the platform.  

    He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Methode Electronics (NYSE: MEI) and previously led the creation of the Fleet Solutions business unit of Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI). As the founder and principal of Princeton Management Associates, Brad performed strategy, and advisory roles for many growth companies, including Quality Health (sold to RealAge), Confidex (sold to Beontag) and Steerpath (a leading provider of indoor location and wayfinding technologies).

    Brad was Strategy and Technology partner at the industrial innovation investor Logispring, and a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Information Technology group.

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Cathmere is seeking experienced senior developers, business analysts, and specialists in the areas of (social media) marketing, investor relationships, partnership development and origination

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