Another step in the growth path of Young Platformplatform for the trading of cryptocurrencies that has already reached 520 thousand registered users four years after birth. The Turin fintech startup led by Mariano Carozzi (president) and Andrea Ferrero (CEO) has indicated the first two names that will make up the Advisory Board which is made up of professionals at the forefront of market and technology innovation, together for support the growth of the company. It is about Nicolas Bertrandsenior executive with twenty years of experience in the Italian Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange and of Matteo Melani, Meta engineering manager in Menlo Park (California). The experts who will form the advisory committee will be involved from time to time based on their different areas of expertise, to provide specific advisory to the various company verticals, especially as supporters of the crypto world.
First nucleus of the Advisory Board
Bertrand and Melani will form the first nucleus of the Advisory Board together with Alberto Ornaghi, serial entrepreneur among the leading cybersecurity experts in Italy, who has been supporting the Young Platform team for some time helping to maintain the pre-established security standards, as well as co-founder of the blockchain intelligence platform Neutrino, sold in 2019 to the giant Coinbase. “The Young Platform team is not just a work group but a community of innovators united by the same vision, passion and shared idea of progress”, concludes Ornaghi, expert in cryptocurrencies, big data analysis, data security and security procedures.
“Young Platform is a ‘young platform’, as the name implies, which wants to grow not only in size, but also in the type of services offered, the quality of the user experience and the level of institutional relations – explains Andrea Ferrero -. The creation of an advisory board is the faithful mirror of this path of maturation, although in the past we have already met professional experts who have shared our enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies, supporting us. We are therefore pleased to now welcome Nicolas Bertrand, who will help Young Platform to bring institutions closer to the crypto world and Matteo Melani, who will allow us to develop greater affinities with blockchain talents. They will soon be joined by other new members, equally authoritative “.
Nicolas Bertrand is a finance professional, with a broad and in-depth knowledge of markets and business gained in over twenty years in the London Stock Exchange and Euronext groups, where he led equity and derivatives markets, launched new products and services that have contributed among the other at the beginning of online trading in Italy. A career at the top of innovation: as a Treasury manager at Citigroup he was the first trader in the world to carry out a transaction in euros on the financial markets, at the opening of the “Target” system, at 7 am on 4 January 1999. On the stock exchange Italiana was in charge of the derivatives and commodities market (“IDEM”) and member of the board of directors, for London Stock Exchange he was Head of equities and derivatives. Bertrand is now an ambassador for Italy of the Global Blockchain Business Council, a leading association in the blockchain world, dedicated to meeting regulatory bodies, business leaders and innovators to promote the adoption of this technology globally.
“The world of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance, the so-called ‘DeFi’, has developed very rapidly to form an asset class that capitalizes on approximately 2 trillion dollars globally: it is the frontier of finance and can no longer be ignored. – explains Bertrand -. After 20 years at the Italian Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, I felt it was time to think about a future in the name of innovation. Being able to personally contribute to the development of Italian excellence in digital finance is a step that goes in this direction: as Business Advisor in Young Platform I will be able to combine my knowledge on financial markets and blockchain with my international network, in order to accelerate the growth of this platform and, ultimately, to support the progress of the sector in Italy and in Europe “.
Matteo Melani it will instead be the Technological Advisor for Young Platform, which thus confirms its appeal on the so-called “brain drain” from Italy. After graduating from the University of Ferrara in ’98, Melani moved to California becoming a serial startup founder and in the meantime working for the Big Tech of IT from Microsoft (as developer manager) to Twitter (software engineer), until arriving in Meta in May 2020, where he developed the new functionality for Instagram’s Nft (Non-ungible token), recently announced by Mark Zuckerberg himself, president and administrator of the group.
“Thinking about my current specialization and professional position, I recognize the importance and need to train new figures dedicated to the development of platforms and services based on blockchain technology – comments Melani -. That of Dapps and of Nft, applications of the crypto world, is a new market in very strong growth and requires professionals who are difficult to find, especially in the Italian job market. I am therefore enthusiastic about my role as Advisor to Young Platform, because it will give me the opportunity to support a young and specialized technical team, thus contributing to the growth of the company and of a new job market in Italy “.
The growth of Young Platform
Young Platform arriva da un 2021 on the rise compared to 2020 for both user-base (+ 1.089%) that by number of transactions on your exchange (+ 989%) and is also preparing to expand its workforce from 41 units in 2021 (average age 27 years) to 110 planned for the end of 2022.
The crypto platform was born in 2018 from the initiative of six former IT students of the University of Turin (Andrea Ferrero, Alexandru Stefan Gheban, Samuele Raimondo, Andrea Carollo, Marco Ciarmoli and Daniele Rinaldi). The € 3.5 million funding round led by United Ventures in June 2021 (Serie A) also contributed to the growth.