Christoph Mussenbrock

Christoph has a long record of accomplishment in the cooperative banking sector in Germany. After several years on the board of a cooperative bank, he switched to the IT segment and became Chief Program Manager Credit Solutions and Chief of Strategy Development at Fiducia & GAD IT AG – one of Germany’s biggest IT Service Providers. Since 2015, he has been CEO of parcIT GmbH, one of Germany’s best-known companies specialized in risk management solutions. Due to his many years of working in the field of banking and insurance, Christoph is highly experienced in all matters concerning regulatory frameworks. He also co-founded Progeno Wohnungsgenossenschaft eG, a housing cooperative in Munich, which has successfully crowdfunded a large residential project in Munich. Christoph has a master’s degree in mathematics and wrote his thesis on formal soft- and hardware verification.

Felizitas Mussenbrock-Strauß

Felizitas Mussenbrock-Strauß was born 1968 in Aachen. After completing her apprenticeship as a tax consultant, she gained 13 years of experience in a tax law firm. Soon she took over a responsible position in senior management. In addition, she completed a training as a HR specialist. Afterwards, she joined an IT and media start-up as CFO. Together with Christoph and some friends, Felizitas founded Progeno Housing Cooperative in Munich, which has successfully crowdfunded a larger appartment complex. As a community manager, she is responsible for the members of the cooperative and for communication and organization. Since the beginning of 2017, Felizitas has taken care of the financial and human resource management of Etherisc.

Matthias Zimmerman

My curiosity about innovative technologies and open source keeps me in a constant state of learning. After a PhD and a postdoc in applied machine learning I switched to a more settled lifestyle and worked in technical lead roles for enterprise software product companies over the last 15 years. In the last three years with the architectural responsibility to move a comprehensive insurance software product to a container based platform. While reading "Mastering Bitcoin" in 2016 I got hooked on blockchain technologies and then concentrated on Ethereum. One year later I met Christoph at his talk "Reinventing Insurance" in Zurich. The potential to completely automatize and decentralize many forms of insurances felt very compelling and I started to loosely follow Etherisc on Twitter. Begin able today to work with the creative minds of Etherisc and its community and to contribute to a more open and transparent world makes me feel both happy and excited!

Jan Stockhausen

Jan Stockhausen is a qualified lawyer under German law (Rechtsanwalt). After studying law at the University of Giessen (Germany) and at the London School of Economics, he obtained his bar qualification while working for a magic circle firm. Jan gained in-depth experience in the international financial services industry working for global financial institutions, banks and law firms in various jurisdictions in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Jan is fluent in German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and registered with the Düsseldorf Bar Association as well as the Malta Chamber of Advocates.

Michiel Berende

Michiel Berende started his career as an underwriter and process manager for a Dutch insurer. In this role he got involved in microinsurance when he visited India in 2004. In India he supported DHAN Foundation in their search for insurance technology. Working at the grassroots inspired Michiel to resign his corporate job and go live and work in India. There he worked at the Tata - Dhan Academy where he established a knowledge centre for microinsurance. In 2006 Michiel became a member of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor’s Working Group on Microinsurance, nowadays called the Microinsurance Network. Focussing on inclusive insurance and technology. He conducted projects in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Since 2014 Michiel aims to enhance access to financial services through blockchain technology.

Hui Lin Chiew

Hui Lin drives Etherisc’s decentralised insurance projects in Asia and Africa. She has over 10 years’ experience in financial sector regulations and policy, specialising in developing inclusive insurance markets. Prior to Etherisc, Hui Lin spent 4 years at the Access to Insurance Initiative developing learning toolkits, training programmes and research for emerging market insurance regulators. She started out at the Malaysian central bank and insurance regulator, where a career highlight was designing and rolling out the inclusive insurance regulatory framework (“Perlindungan Tenang”) which brought insurance to over 1 million policyholders.

Peter Koch

After training as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant, Peter worked in the furniture trade in a sales cooperative. After some years he joined Fiducia IT AG (today Atruvia AG), the IT provider for cooperative banks in Germany. From 2000 onwards he completed studies in business administration and bank management and changed to product management, where he was responsible for developing and supporting electronic banking platforms and afterwards for savings deposits. In addition, analysis of market potentials, marketing strategy applications, process optimization were among his main tasks. Peter has moved to Bali in 2013, where he has opened a dive center and works as dive instructor. Peter is excited to be able to make a contribution to a more just and social world together with all the creative minds at Etherisc.

Koenraad de Jonghe

Koenraad is managing our telegram community. In this role, he will make sure that our community is engaged, spam free and up to date with all things related to Etherisc. Koenraad brings expertise in marketing, sales and public relations.

Damian Groß

Damian has recently joined the Etherisc team and takes over product management tasks. He has hands-on experience in marketing, product development, and design. Damian brings along experience in designing web interfaces, creating logos, icons and other GUI elements. He has expertise in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, and Vyond Studios. Damian will support the Etherisc team from conceptualization to implementation.

Sergio Figueredo

Sergio Figueredo spearheads Etherisc Impact's effort to equip smallholder farmers in Latin America with technology solutions to fight and mitigate climate change. Previously, Sergio led development of social startup Choco4Peace, an organisation that supports peacebuilding in Colombia by empowering victims of war and providing the opportunity to cultivate cacao and gain access to fair markets via disruptive technology such as blockchain.