Vj Angelo
CEO

Vj has over 35 years of financial markets experience across Fixed Income, listed derivatives, exchange market infrastructure, regulation and capital raising. As CEO of a Crypto index business, Vj furthered his base knowledge of digitisation and blockchain. He holds an extensive network throughout the globe.

Duncan Bendall
CMO

Duncan is a commercially orientated executive with a successful track record in digital, advertising, media, marketing and sales. He has over 25 years of strong experience in the broader media landscape, digital, technology and mobile sector with excellent interpersonal skills and valuable contacts.

Chris Berney
CFO

A finance professional with over 20 years experience in capital markets as a banker and trader in London & Frankfurt with Dresdner Kleinwort, HK. Involved in real estate, private equity and tech for the last 9 years.

Ana Maria Aver
Head of Operations

Ana Maria, has an MBA in Finance and Banking and background in PR, marketing and event management. She has joined Inspira Wealth (former LDXAM) in 2020 where she's presently working as the Head of Operations.

Jemima Darling
Marketing Executive

Jemima joined Inspira as the Social Media Executive and quickly slid into her current role as Marketing Executive. She is gaining experience in all aspects of a fast-paced marketing role.

Sabrina Innocente
Legal Analyst

Sabrina has experience in areas such as data regulation, new product launches and wider financial services regulation and compliance issues. Sabrina is currently seconded to Inspira Wealth as a Legal Analyst, is trilingual and has a vast amount of international experience.

Praveen De Silva
CTO

Over 20 years of international experience in the IT industry. Draws on wide-ranging technical expertise to overcome challenges. Thrives when working as a part of a cohesive team to deliver projects that yield multiple business benefits.

Deljfina Andoni
Head of Research

Educated in China & Japan. Research background in Cognitive Science. Machine Learning & Data Science enthusiast. Interested in monetary and distributed systems innovation, particularly cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology

Antonia Darling
Executive Assistant to Vj Angelo

Sam Hourigan
CEO - Advisory

Sam has worked with and consulted for companies and businesses in all Australian states and Internationally, with extensive business networks in South East Asia, United States and Europe.

Claire Macdonald
Client Relations Associate

Claire recently joined the Inspira Wealth team in a Client Relations position. She has a firm grip on strategy, operations and compelling communication skills. Her background is predominantly in sales and customer service.

Charles O’Neil
Inspira Yacht PM

Charles has recently been working with startups to gain pre-seed and seed funding. Before this he spent eight years delivering innovation projects for the HCL/ Deutsche Bank Fintech Lab. He has an MBA from Imperial College, London focused on Innovation Management, High Tech Strategy and Corporate Finance.

Mike Mahoney
Treasury Manager

Mike has over 25 years of experience in trading, developing strategies and managing risk in global financial markets, covering government bonds, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange, fixed income repo and cryptocurrency. Developed systematic trading programs, for bond futures and more recently Bitcoin.

Dan Pal
CEO Moonboots Venture Capital

Daniel is a construction and tech entrepreneur with over 10+ Years of industrial, commercial and residential development as an acting CEO and Operations Officer. He Co-founded Moonboots Venture Capital where they successfully funded over 150+ Web3 start-ups and achieved an AUM of $100M in 2021.

John Sears
CEO Inspira Venture Capital

An experienced finance professional with a background in (U)HNW private wealth management in Geneva, followed by building blockchain Venture Capital firm MoonBoots Capital up to an AUM of circa $100m in 2020/21.

Yasuaki Shirato
Advisor

Yasuaki has over 12 years of banking background at Mizuho Bank in Japan. His main roles were business and project finance. His current focus includes financial advisory, including M&A and support of business successions. At Inspira, his main role is the development of strategic partnerships in Japan.

Etsuko Kanetaka
Advisor

Etsuko has over 20 years of professional experience in finance and global tech startups as well as an early adopter of introducing blockchain technology in Japan. For 7+ years, she has taken various leading roles at several companies for Japan market entry. At Inspira, her main role is to build Inspira Japan.

Nick Harrington
Non-Executive Director

Nick is an experienced founder with a focus on scaling and advising businesses across the financial services and the technology. He has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015

James Davies
Non-Executive Director

With a long history in Fin Tech with several successful exits, James formerly ran Product Management for Cantor Fitzgerald and ran Sales and Marketing for Trayport. Most recently he has been CFO for one of the world’s largest ICOs and CEO for a crypto poker business.

Stuart Heath
Non-Executive Director

Stuart's focus is on product development, designing and implementing new financial derivative approaches with a global exchange group. Stuart has also sat on the boards of start-up ventures in innovative financial derivatives. Previously, he has had investment bank trading roles in credit bonds and credit derivatives. Stuart has an MSc in Banking and Finance from Herriot Watt University.

Mike Bradshaw
Advisory board

Mike has an Aviation background in Engineering and management and has transitioned his career in to project funding for Aviation, Green technologies for power and waste to energy as well as capital raise for the Medical and Boutique Hotels sector.

Stephanie Graham
Head of Community Management Americas

Stephanie is a US based expert in the B2B and B2C retail sector advising a variety of firms in increasing sales and Revenue. She has worked with firms in the retail, medical, real estate and luxury boutique hotel sectors in raising capital via introductions and networks.