Do I Qualify?
Matthew Van Niekerk's avatarPerson

Matthew Van Niekerk

CEO & co-founderSettleMint

Leuven, Belgium

Member Since October 2023

About

In 2016 after several years of analysis and experimentation with blockchain technologies in financial services and capital markets, I cofounded SettleMint with one objective: to simplify the blockchain transformation journey for enterprises. When you believe in the benefits that the technology will bring to organisations and to society as a whole, there is an accompanying moral obligation to accelerate the adoption of the technology and that is what we do at SettleMint. Our chain and infrastructure agnostic blockchain transformation platform provides the absolute shortest path between a use case concept and the realisation of the business case underpinning it. Prior to SettleMint, I moved to Belgium in 2006 where I completed my MBA then went to work at KBC. First as an internal management and operations consultant, later as the COO of the Belgian Consumer Finance business and finally as the Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities where I was responsible for the technical side of the online retail brokerage platform ‘Bolero’ and the equity crowdfunding platform ‘Bolero Crowdfunding’. A Canadian by origin and an Economist (Western) and MBA (Vlerick) by education, I spent the first 7 years of my international career in Tokyo, working in FX brokerage and where I launched two online retailing companies.

Published content

Six reasons why blockchain projects fail—and how to find success instead

article

As competitors work to implement new blockchain initiatives, now is the time to focus on blockchain solutions so that you’re not left behind.

Company details

SettleMint

Company bio

SettleMint is the Blockchain Transformation Company that connects the dots between people, processes and technology to accelerate value creation with blockchain. It enables enterprises to easily and rapidly build and integrate blockchain applications, while empowering teams with the skills, knowledge, methodologies, guidance and ongoing support they need.

Industry

Technology

Area of focus

Blockchain

Company size

51 - 200