Evan has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience and was previously an investment banker with Citibank and HSBC covering the Asia Pacific Region for 10 years. He has advised listed companies and MNCs on over USD 20 billion of corporate finance initiatives including strategic mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, initial public offerings, secondary listings, reverse takeovers, convertibles, debt issuance, limited partnership funds, investment trusts and other capital raising methods. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, having established, operated and sold multiple businesses in computing, manufacturing, professional services, payments, and F&B industries. Evan holds an MBA in finance from the Australian National University (he was distinguished as the youngest MBA graduate in the world at 21) and holds a BSc in mathematics, physics, computer science and chemistry from the University of Guelph, Canada. Evan is the co-founder of NBD Ventures and is a board member of Bancstac, Numo Labs and a non-executive board member of Blue Space Legal Group.

John is one of Australia’s early pioneers in digital payments. When the internet was commercially available to the world in the early 90’s John identified the technology gap between electronic commerce and traditional merchant payment methods. He was involved in developing electronic payment systems for Australian banks to handle and manage large numbers of digital merchants and their transactions for internet payments when the term “e-commerce” was initially coined in our lexicon. His experiences and investment culminated in a company group known as Paycorp. In 2017, John sold the Australia and New Zealand Paycorp operations to ASX listed MYOB for AUD 48 million, which was subsequently acquired by US private equity firm KKR for AUD 2.2 billion in 2019. John holds a B.Ed Degree from the University of Canberra. He represented Australia between 1985 - 1992, as an international athlete in the 110m Hurdles, notably qualifying for the Seoul and Barcelona Olympic games as well as running at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Japan, and 1989 IAAF World Cup in Barcelona. Between training and competitions, John was a High School teacher and an entrepreneur. In 2019 John invited NBD Ventures to invest into the Paycorp international operations to support existing bank partners and lead the next chapter of international growth. Bancstac was born and John has been appointed its Chair.

Kelvin has over 20 years of experience in investments, fund management, corporate finance, business transformation and restructuring. Previously, Kelvin was a Chief Investment Principal of one of Asia’s largest single-family offices and managed over USD 6 billion of investments across Asia Pacific, Middle East, America and Europe. Kelvin has led numerous corporate financing initiatives including issuance of corporate debt securities exceeding USD 1 billion. He was also responsible for invoice financing, factoring and reverse factoring with global technology companies including T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and others while at TCL / Alcatel, a global consumer electronics company. Kelvin led the implementation of the new Société Générale factoring system at TCL / Alcatel. Kelvin graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Commerce and earned an EMBA from The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales. He is also an Australian Certified Practicing Accountant. Kelvin is the managing partner of NBD Ventures T&T Opportunity Fund.

Leon has over 20 years of legal experience practicing in London with law firms Latham & Watkins, Skadden Arps, Cadwalader and Paul Hastings in addition to acting as in-house legal counsel at GE Capital. He has advised on over USD 30 billion of debt capital market issuances and cross-border financings across Europe and the United States and has represented institutional clients, focusing on banking, debt and equity capital markets, real estate finance, structured finance and cross-border M&A transactions. He was part of the team that established a multi-billion Euro regulated fund in Luxembourg with exposures across multiple asset classes, sectors and industries. Leon holds a Master’s of Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and a Juris Doctor, cum laude from the University of Turin. Leon is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales (solicitor), New York State, U.S.A. (attorney-at-law) and Italy (avvocato). Leon is an advisor to the Board of one of Europe’s largest single-family offices and a board member of NBD Ventures Management SARL.

Nina is an international executive in digital and broadcast media with over 25 years experience in corporate strategy, business development, and product management. Nina was Director of Business Development for Turner International (now Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.) covering Asia Pacific. She was the sales and marketing manager for British Sky Broadcasting in the UK. Prior to broadcast media, Nina was an advisor to Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy on business development projects across Asia Pacific. She also held roles as financial controller at Royal Mail managing a marketing and advertising budget of £40m and was a consultant at data analytics company Acxiom and Westpac Banking Corporation. Nina holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Western Sydney University and post graduate Diploma of Management from the University of Technology, Sydney. Nina is the co-founder and Chair of NBD Ventures and a board member of Bancstac, Jamax, Numo Labs and Paycorp.