Investment and Commercial Banking, Private
Equity and Venture Capital, and Dragon’s Den Veteran joins Innovative Cryptocurrency
DasCoin, the blockchain-based currency at the centre of an innovative
digital asset system, has recruited a former investment and commercial banker
to lead a powerhouse board of non-executive directors.
Anna Hejka brings
her experience as a founder of more than 20 companies, a Managing Partner of
six Private Equity and Venture Capital funds, an investment and commercial
banker, and a business angel to DasCoin, becoming its first female director and
chair of the board.
An
entrepreneurial heavyweight, Hejka has launched five private equity and venture
capital funds. She worked as a commercial banking officer at JP Morgan Chase
and an investment banker at Solomon Brothers. She has garnered countless
awards, including being named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World
Economic Forum, a Business Angel of the Year by the European Business Angel
Network, and she also starred in Dragon’s
Den in her native Poland.
Anna Hejka joins
former White House adviser professor Augustine Ha Ton Vinh, former Volvo CE
global executive vice president Eberhard Wedekind and Soon Hock Lim, former
Vice President and Managing Director of Compaq Computer Asia Pacific, in supporting DasCoin as it prepares to list on
public exchanges on April 27, 2018.
Commenting on her
appointment, Anna Hejka said: “I have decided to join the DasCoin board,
because the company has attributes of becoming very successful. Its digitized,
open and participative business model creates connected ecosystem of scalable
communities of producers and consumers. It is a tribute to the amazing people
at DasCoin who created this ecosystem which continues to grow with such
momentum, and I’m thrilled to join at such an exciting time.
“DasCoin has the
potential to be globally disruptive to the benefit of all consumers, so my aim
is to make sure that these incredibly hard-working people get all the support
they need to create something very special.”
DasCoin founder
Michael Mathias said: “Appointing someone of Anna’s caliber to lead our Board
of Directors is testament to the growing strength of DasCoin. She brings a huge
amount of experience to our top-class board and will provide strong leadership
as we work to establish DasCoin as the international currency of trust.
“Anna Hejka’s
appointment comes days after DasCoin unlocked its digital ecosystem for the
first time, publishing the source code for its blockchain on GitHub.”
About DasCoin
DasCoin is the
blockchain-based currency at the center of an innovative digital asset system
that seeks to optimize the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses of existing
currency systems. It is fast, efficient, balanced, secure and scalable.
DasCoin is
focused on creating a digital currency that delivers superior performance
through greater operational efficiency, increased transaction capacity, wider
distribution, better governance and greater regulatory compliance. Protected by
industry leading security protocols and a permissioned blockchain, DasCoin is a
pioneer in the sector with the goal of becoming the world’s first mainstream
digital currency.
DasCoin
encompasses a fully-authenticated global community of users, world-class
consortium blockchain technology, an integrated ecosystem, decentralized wallet
access, a powerful incentivized growth engine, best-in-class payment system
architecture and an interoperable blockchain protocol.
