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The Orthocorp Ltd.

The Other Guy

BlockChain Magic

Co-Founder / Wizard

Vertikal

Co-Founder / Blockchain Illuminator

NFiniTi

Co-Founder / CTO

Sharkaroo

A Digital Securities Product Management firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok & San Diego.

Co-Founder / CEO

Focusing on investment opportunities for blockchain related technology companies and tokenized assets.

Director, Sharkaroo Alpha Ventures

ICO Expert - Coin Governance System

Speaker at several conferences & keynotes on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Soi Blockchain, AWS Big Data & Blockchain conference, Sasin University, Chulalongkorn University, ...

Consulting, Advisory Roles & Public speaking

Jetsetcrypto.com - A streamlined travel ecosystem built on blockchain technology.

Advisor To The Board - JetSetCrypto

Advisor (Tech lead, ICO) - Conscious OS

DevOps Factory

DevOps application architecture, engineering support, infrastructure, troubleshooting across SME, and FinTech applications on AWS, Google, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

Co-Founder / Solutions Architect

Paychant

Advisor To The Board

NUXOS

NUXOS PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGIES

DISCLAIMER: Crispin Courtenay's latest AI gerbil has written my profile bio. Let's see how it goes.

Richard Piacentini (1) is a highly respected industry thought leader (2) and international (3) Software Development and Blockchain speaker. 

(1) Yep, that's me! That's a good start!
(2) The AI mistakenly identified my friend Keir Finlow-Bates as me, even though I didn't say anything.
(3) If you're interested, I live in Thailand as a French national, hence the "international" part.

With over 25 years of experience (4) as an extreme (5) software engineer and architect, Richard has a proven track record of delivering innovative and highly scalable solutions for his clients. 

(4) & (5) Let's not focus on that too much.

He has also coordinated multiple international conferences (6) focused on the Ruby programming language, cementing his status as a leading voice in the industry. 

(6) It started from 2006 to 2012, at first with 20 people meeting in a pizzeria restaurant; the significance of this now is questionable.

Richard is the CEO and co-founder of Sharkaroo (7), a Software Development firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok, and San Diego. 

(7) Sharkaroo? Brilliant! Crispin found the name, and I wish it was me; he was (moderately) drunk, however.

He is both a Blockchain Solutions Architect and a Senior Software Development Architect, which has helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of leading development teams in five different countries. (8) 

(8) This sentence has 36 words and only one comma! 

An expert on blockchain technology, smart contracts, distributed ledger frameworks, digital assets, securities tokenization, software architecture, and software development, Richard brings high-level experience working with government, banking, media, and start-up partners. (9)

(9) Who gave you that list?

 In addition, Richard has worked closely with Crispin Courtenay (10) on numerous projects over the past five years, including developing cutting-edge blockchain solutions.

(10) Did you ask the AI to add your name to my profile?

In January 2022, Richard teamed up with Keir Finlow-Bates to engineer the largest NFT airdrop ever on the Ethereum mainnet. They distributed 1.5 quindecillion, which is 1.5 followed by 48 zeros, unique virtual land tokens, one for each Ethereum address that has existed, exists, or will exist in the future. (11)

(11) Still one of my best moments ever!

That began their experimental metaverse project, "The Orthoverse is Doomed!". (12)

(12) In the end, we all are, memento mori! 

Richard Piacentini

Banco de España

Back to the IT Risk Group with the General Directorate of Supervision, my current tasks include oversight of compliance with EBA's Outsourcing Guidelines by Spanish financial institutions.

IT Risk Expert

Spanish Standards Organization

Chair of the Spanish mirror committee of ISO TC 307 on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

Chair of Committee CNT 71 / SC 307

Member of the Spanish mirror committee of ISO TC 307 on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, representing Banco de España, the Spanish central bank.

Committee Member of CTN 71 / SC 307

Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos

Digital Transformation Adviser

OECD - OCDE

Bringing Spanish Public Sector views to the future OECD's regulatory recommendation on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

 Member of the Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB)

Ministry of Economcs and Business

Contributing to Digital Transformation initiatives from Spanish Treasury on FinTech, with special focus on those related with blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies.

Member of the pool of IT Auditors of the European Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM)
Department IV - Group 3 (former Technology Innovation Group)
Current auditing focus: Technological and Business Continuity Risks in systemic banks

IT Examiner

Reviewer of ITIL Processes for Target 2 Securities System

Information Systems Department

European Central Bank

Secretary of the Task Force advising to ESCB/Eurosystem committees on adoption of BCM common policy

Senior Expert on Business Continuity

Estuve a cargo de esta Unidad desde su creación, por lo que tuve a mi cargo la elaboración del Manual de Procesos de la misma, con la asistencia de un consultor externo, y la puesta en marcha de los seis procesos establecidos para la implementación, prueba y mejora continua del Plan de Continuidad de Negocio del Banco de España, en colaboración con 19 Interlocutores de Continuidad de Negocio (habitualmente Jefes de División o Responsables de Departamento).
Otras responsabilidades incluyeron la participación, en representación del Banco de España, en reuniones del SEBC y en cursos y presentaciones a otros Bancos Cen-trales sobre Continuidad de Negocio.

Business Continuity Manager

Senior Software Engineer

XBRL International

Cooperating with other six board members in defining the guidelines and controlling the working plan of the technical working groups that do development and maintainance of the global “de facto” standard for financial information interchange, to keep them aligned with the strategical goals defined by the XBRL International Steering Committee.
In this voluntary position, I had the chance to make a non trivial deal among rival technical proposals with full acceptance by both sides.

Member of the XBRL Standards Board

Centro Andaluz de Formación en Ingeniería de Sistemas, AIE

Tras fundar en febrero de 2001, junto con la mayor empresa de servicios informáticos de la CCAA andaluza, un centro de formación en Java y Solaris, reconocido oficialmente por Sun Microsystems con el aval de mi CV en ingeniería de software, en abril se me solicitó que asumiese su dirección académica. Mis funciones incluían la elaboración de los programas formativos y, en algunas áreas de vanguardia, la elaboración de contenidos e impartición de cursos. Además, y como responsable de desarrollo de negocio, establecí acuerdos de colaboración con la Universidad de Sevilla y con empresas de la Tecnópolis de Cartuja

Director of Academic Affairs

Back to the IT Risk Group with the General Directorate of Supervision, my current tasks include oversight of compliance with EBA's Outsourcing Guidelines by Spanish financial institutions.
I continue chairing the Spanish Standards Group on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

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