Miguel Vaz

Miguel Vaz is Digital Asset Custody at Hauck & Aufhäuser Bank. He is a technical leader with experience in innovative technologies in the financial sector, focusing on evaluating blockchain projects and cryptocurrencies

Before that, he worked in the wealth management space with Kintaro Capital.

As a management consultant at d-fine, a top quant-risk boutique, he advised and worked with the European Central Bank, exchanges, commercial banks and startups on both Blockchain and AI topics, building issuance platforms, payment infrastructures, etc.

He has a PhD in Robotics and a degree in Mathematical Finance from Oxford University.

He is also co-organizer of the Frankfurt Smart Contract Meetup.

Education

• PhD Universidade do Minho (2004 — 2009)
• Diploma Universidade do Minho (1996 — 2003)
• Erasmus Student Università di Pisa (2001 — 2001)

Companies

• Managing Director Hauck Aufhäuser Digital Custody GmbH (2022)
• External Lecturer - Digital Assets Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (2020)
• Lecturer Blockchain Zigurat Innovation & Technology Business School (2019)
• DLT Advisory vrfai - Verifiable Intelligence (2019)
• CTO mySaveID / Senior Manager targens (2021 — 2022)
• Product Manager Digital Asset Custody blocknox GmbH (Börse Stuttgart) (2020 — 2021)
• Director and Investment Committee Kintaro Capital (2018 — 2020)
• Advisor EOS Germany (2018 — 2019)
• Blockchain and Machine Learning Expert d-fine GmbH (2016 — 2018)

Skills

• Robotics
• C
• Simulations

Other

Perl, Programming, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Matlab, Blockchain, Algorithms, Risk Management, Data Analysis, Java, Machine Learning, Software Development, Python