Lars Seier Christensen is Chairman of the Swiss non-profit Concordium Foundation. With over 30 years of experience across the banking and financial sector, Seier Christensen is a global pioneer in FX and derivatives trading, having co-founded the online trading and investment platform Saxo Bank in 1992. He served as co-CEO of Saxo Bank for more than 20 years, in which time the bank grew to 1,500 employees across 150 locations serving customers in 170 countries. SaxoTrader, the bank’s flagship online trading offering, was launched in 1998 and was one of the first online FX trading platforms in the world. SaxoTrader has since grown to become one of the world’s most complete multi-asset trading platforms. Seier Christensen is also the founder and sole owner of Seier Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm which specializes in investments in angel, seed, and A-round stage companies. The firm invests in art & fashion, financial services, food and beverages, sports & entertainment, social media, and technology industries.

Professor Ueli Maurer is a Science Advisor and a Concordium Board Member. He serves as Professor of Computer Science and Head of the
Information Security and Cryptography Research Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), where his research interests include cryptography in both theory and applications, information security, theoretical computer science, information theory, and discrete mathematics. Maurer obtained his PhD in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich in 1990 and was subsequently a DIMACS Fellow at Princeton University. He is best known for his work on information-theoretic cryptography, the security analyses of the Diffie-Hellman protocol and the RSA system, inventing the indifferentiability concept, extended work on secure multi-party computation, developing a universal statistic test for random bit generators, and his work on constructive cryptography — a unified theory for cryptographic security proofs. He has been named a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2013, he received the Vodafone Innovation Award for Mobile Communications and in 2016 received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics. Maurer also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Cryptology from 2002-2010.

Simone Monnerat is a board member of the Concordium Foundation. She is an attorney-at-law and civil law notary and she works as partner at memo.law in Zug, Switzerland. She specializes in foundation, corporate and notarial law. Due to her profound expertise in Swiss foundation law and governance matters in particular together with her long standing interest in digitalization and technology she found herself immersed in different blockchain projects in the international melting pot of the Crypto Valley in Zug.

Bjørn Krog Andersen is a board member of the Concordium Foundation. He is the Head Compliance for Banking Circle, a fully licensed bank and financial infrastructure built for Payments businesses and Banks. He was a partner of the law firm Moalem, Weitemeyer and Bendtsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has extensive regulatory and compliance expertise and advises fintech, regtech and blockchain companies in his practice in addition to VC- and PE-related M&A work. Bjørn was General Counsel of Saxo Bank Group for six years, heading its legal, regulatory, and compliance departments globally. This expertise provided him with a deep understanding and insights into regulatory concerns and worldwide obligations within ID/KYC and investor protection related topics.

Ian joined Polestar in 2019 as a Global CFO from Geely where he served as Deputy Group CFO and Director of Auditing. Ian has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and the automotive industry.