Carmina Lidia Dumitrascu, CEO and Co-founder of VentureBoost Ltd was born in Romania and upon receiving a scholarship from Cornell University moved to the US as a teenager. A summer internship on the floor of the American Stock Exchange was the catalyst for a lifelong interest in the markets and a 10+ years career in financial services as a portfolio manager, trader, published strategist and fundraiser at Credit Suisse, Nomura and a $6 billion multi-strategy hedge fund, across fixed income and equity structured products.
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An MBA at London Business School opened new horizons and was the launchpad for Carmina’s entrepreneurial journey.After learning her lessons as an entrepreneur and
eventually growing one of her ventures into a multi-million GBP company, Carmina has partnered with Dr Jay Best, an MIT computer scientist and innovation strategist to found VentureBoost and to explore how blockchain technology can serve as a foundation for the sharing economy. Together with our team, we build technology that makes distributed ledgers easy to use, secure, and future-proof: A personal wealth vault, completely unbreakable and accessible on the go that can hold all of your financial, property, health data and digital identity. Our company was among the semi-finalists at Consensus 2016 in New York and have been selected as a BNP Paribas partner for ViVa Technologies in Paris. Carmina tweets at @CarminaDu