Послы

Aaron Koenig

Канкун, Мексика

Аарон Кёниг — предприниматель, консультант, писатель и продюсер, специализирующийся на технологиях Биткойн и Блокчейн. Он также был докладчиком и участником многочисленных конференций и автором нескольких книг на эту тему. Аарон Кениг будет работать над стратегиями по внедрению криптовалют и технологий блокчейна в Free Private Cities.

Alexander Kreindler

Нью-Йорк, Соединенные Штаты Америки

Александр Крейндлер — финансовый специалист и предприниматель с давним интересом к подрывным и экспериментальным моделям управления. Александр является партнером Kreindler Graf, инвестиционно-банковской и консалтинговой компании, специализирующейся на консультировании бизнеса на ранних стадиях и инвестиционных решениях для стартапов. Александр получил степень MBA в Университете Санкт-Галлена и степень бакалавра по математике и философии в Университете Висконсина.

Alexander Duerr

Гейдельберг, Германия

После прохождения практики в качестве банкира Александр получил образование «Мастер-консультант по финансам» в IOFC в Берлине. Он называет себя «предпринимателем от имени умных инвесторов». Более 25 лет он работает непосредственно в финансовой отрасли, из которых последние 20 лет он с гордостью провел в качестве свободного и независимого предпринимателя. Выполняя различные роли соучредителя, консультанта, советника, а также инвестора, он создал отличную международную сеть. В настоящее время он предоставляет доступ к отобранным по всему миру инвестиционным возможностям (недвижимость) с помощью компании LUPUS ASSETS.

Alexander Voss

Чикаго, Соединенные Штаты Америки

Алекс — финансовый специалист, предоставляющий консультации по слияниям и поглощениям компаниям, работающим в сфере здравоохранения. Он либертарианец по натуре и очень заинтересован в поощрении сецессии и децентрализации как единственного практического решения многих политических вопросов. В 2016 году он с отличием окончил Чикагский университет, где изучал экономику и финансы.

Bruno Carlos

Рио-де-Жанейро, Бразилия

Бруно Карлос — журналист и создатель компании Equipar & Inspirar, которая повышает ценность бразильского лидерства через публикации, книги и тренинги для политиков, лидеров и предпринимателей в США и Бразилии, среди прочих стран. Он учился в Universidade Gama Filho и Universidade Federal Fluminense, а также получил диплом в США по специальности «Развитие лидерства» в институте John Maxwell Co. Он также является бестселлером Amazon с опытом работы в общественных и политических проектах и руководителем ZeroVinteUm, проекта, который стремится привести и развить новых лидеров с помощью эксклюзивного метода в семи сферах влияния общества.

Carlos Pérez Jiménez

Мехико, Мексика

Карлос — архитектор, менеджер проектов, градостроитель и девелопер в сфере недвижимости, который страстно любит города. Он видит в каждом месте и в каждой ситуации неограниченное количество возможностей. «Создание города» — это сочетание знаний, творчества, управления и технологий, но прежде всего это продукт разрушительного наблюдения и размышления. Для его достижения нет лучшей среды, чем свобода и самоопределение. На протяжении 25 лет профессионального роста он специализируется на создании и развитии многопрофильных команд для проектирования, управления и выполнения проектов.

Он верит в потенциал и талант Мексики и Латинской Америки и стремится внести свой вклад в их развитие.

Dr. Christian Hugo Hoffmann

Женева, Швейцария

Доктор Кристиан Хьюго Хоффманн — предприниматель и исследователь в области ИИ и FinTech, сооснователь компании Syntherion, занимающейся разработкой программного обеспечения для управления рисками в сфере B2B, а также старший научный сотрудник кафедры предпринимательских рисков в ETH Zurich. Кроме того, он преподает FinTech на программе для руководителей в Университете Лихтенштейна, вносит вклад в экосистему стартапов в качестве директора Startup Grind в Женеве и регулярно пишет статьи об ИИ в ведущих журналах и газетах, таких как NZZ, Schweizer Monat и Towards Data Science.

Christoph Heuermann

Панама-Сити, Панама

Кристоф — цифровой кочевник, предприниматель, моряк и заядлый путешественник 1990 года рождения, который помогает людям по всему миру вести более свободный образ жизни. Как эксперт по эмиграции, оптимизации налогов и взлому путешествий, он посетил более 140 стран и стремится посетить все страны мира к 35 годам. Кристоф также является активным инвестором в сельское хозяйство, недвижимость и другие сферы, такие как свободные частные города. С ним можно связаться на его блоге о путешествиях Christoph, Today.

Daniel Model

Triesen, Liechtenstein

Daniel Model (born 1960 in Switzerland) is Chairman and CEO of the Model Group (modelgroup.com), a European supplier of corrugated and folding carton packaging solutions. The early expansion at the beginning of the nineties into the opening countries like Czech Republic and Poland boosted the company’s size to its 15 plants in five countries and more than 4200 employees of today.
Daniel, with Elisabeth, is a resident in Liechtenstein, together they have three grown up children.
He holds a PH.D. in business and economics from the University of St.Gallen and is the founder of a new state on the green field called Avalon to explore the real social question. New answers are needed as the actual ‘social’ welfare state is weakening its citizens.

Dirk Wagner

Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Having been born in socialist East-Germany, Dirk is uniquely aware of the dangers of postmodern ideologies as well as governmental intervention into the economy and private lives. Due to this, he has been an active participant of the Seasteading and Liberland projects before joining Free Private Cities.

Ekhard Seeßelberg

Berlin, Germany

Ekhard Seeßelberg is an IT Professional with a longtime interest in Liberty, Austrian Economics and Bitcoin. He is currently studying Austrian Economics at the Scholarium in Vienna and is co-founder of B2029.org

Francisco Litvay

Linz, Austria

Francisco Litvay is the Operations Manager at Tipolis Consult. He is a graduated business informatics specialist. After discovering the Startup Societies movement in 2018, he became passionate about innovations in governance and started actively contributing to the field. He also authors the Governance Gauge at the Institute for Competitive Governance.

Frank Karsten

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Frank Karsten is founder of the MoreFreedom Foundation and co-founder of the Mises Institute Netherlands. He is also co-author of Beyond Democracy, Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to unrest, runaway spending and a tyrannical government, which was translated into over 20 languages.

Hartmut Sieper

Phoenix, Mauritius

Hartmut Sieper is a German citizen living in Mauritius as an entrepreneur and business consultant on corporate development in Africa. His vision and mission is to create new businesses in Africa based on technology, to assist global companies in getting access to African markets via Mauritius, and to introduce investors to profitable and sustainable direct investment opportunities. He worked with several private banks as investment advisor, financial analyst, asset manager and investment strategist. Hartmut is the author of several books about investments and capital markets.

Prof. Karl Eckstein

Moscow, Russia

Professor Dr. Karl Eckstein teaches constitutional and administrative law at the Moscow University «MGIMO». Until recently, he was Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he led the project «Economic Reform in Tajikistan» on behalf of the Tajik Government. He is the author of a commentary on the Russian Constitution.

Kurt Hanson

Tokyo, Japan

Kurt Hanson is a free city advocate based in Tokyo. He is an angel investor in fintech startups such as Liquid.com. He sees free cities as humanity’s best hope for a better tomorrow and is devoting his life to their realization. He is a member of the Seasteading Institute and aims to build a floating community off the coast of Singapore as a first step to living free on the open ocean. In particular He is an advocate of Spencer MacCallum’s concept of the proprietary community.

Maciek Ziolkowski

Warsaw, Poland

Maciek Ziolkowski is an investor in Coinfirm, RSK, KBX, Revolut and Kraken. He was the first person to publicly recognize the success of Bitcoin in public TV in Poland starting in 2013. He is also a Seasteading supporter. His favourite countries are Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Tuvalu and São Tomé e Príncipe.

Marco Wutzer

Medellín, Colombia

Marco Wutzer is a speculator and digital assets expert. He believes in free markets and voluntary interactions between sovereign individuals. This philosophy has made him a global citizen in search of lifestyle and profit opportunities around the globe. As a pioneering investor in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, he is a true expert in blockchain technology. He recently joined his long-time friend Doug Casey at Casey Research in order to share his vision of blockchain technology enabling a truly global and truly free market leading to a Second Renaissance in the 2020s.

Mark Edge

Keene, United States

Mark Edge is founder and current Host of Free Talk Live, the #26 talk show in the US, on more than 200 stations.

Marthinus Grobler

Cape Town, South Africa

Marthinus Grobler is a South African architect with a particular interest in economics. Through his career he has worked on and investigated many disciplines of the design scale and is mostly concerned with the networks of the city and its manifestations in urban form and culture. Together with various groups, he is developing mechanisms allowing neighbourhoods and cities to evolve as a result of voluntary human actions. This is based on studies into the processes of emergent order found in nature’s distributed systems and the principles of Austrian Economics He is also campaigning for multi-culturalism through political decentralization.

Martin Klapper

Brisbane, Australia

Martin is a lawyer that works with a national and international client base and advises on significant resources and infrastructure projects. With more than 30 years’ experience, Martin has developed a reputation as one of the most effective and sought after energy and resources lawyers in Australia. He has been named a leading Australian Energy and Natural Resources lawyer in Chambers Asia-Pacific in 2012-2015, 2017 and 2018 and ranked in The International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers for many years. His lengthy career has seen him advise on the development of legislation, negotiate with governments and regulatory bodies, and in many cases, break new ground in his work on many ‘first-of-its-kind’ projects or agreements.

Martin Durchschlag

Basel – Site Development

Martin Durchschlag has broad experience in real estate and site development in the context of growing communities and new cities. Initially trained as an industrial engineer at the Vienna University of Technology he played a key role as CFO in shaping HIAG’s transformation from a timber industry group to a high-profile real estate company. In the role of CEO, he led the way to the IPO in 2014 and developed the company into the largest re-development portfolio in Switzerland by 2019. He is convinced that proactive curation of uses as well as flexibility and adaptability in the design can unleash significant growth potential. He will help develop the locations hosting Free Private Cities.

Michael Strong

Austin, USA

Michael Strong is a serial education entrepreneur, most recently founding The Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI), a network of Montessori-aligned high schools with campuses in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, and St. Louis. Earlier he created Moreno Valley High School, ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S.

He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems. He introduced the expression “Startup Cities” in a 2013 Voice & Exit talk which has led to a vibrant “Startup Societies” movement around the world. He is also a co-founder of FLOW, Peace through Commerce, Conscious Capitalism, and Radical Social Entrepreneurs. He serves on the boards of Radical Social Entrepreneurs and Social Evolution. Michael writes at Medium and is active on Facebook, where he is the only “Michael Strong” married to the powerful and beautiful Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade.

Dr. Michael J. Ulmer

Frankfurt – Business Law

Michael J. Ulmer is an internationally renowned lawyer. He holds a PhD in law and is a senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb. Michael is an expert in business law, who has worked with a broad range of industries and clients, including international financial and strategic investors. This included the new city project of Masdar in the UAE. His practice focuses on domestic and international private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures, general corporate advice, and private equity transactions. He will support Free Private Cities in becoming international business centers by giving top-notch legal expertise and helping secure international best practices.

Dr. Nobila Ouédraogo

Heidelberg, Germany

Nobila Ouédraogo is an expert in public health and epidemiology: Doctoral degree in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Heidelberg, Field Epidemiology Training Programme (Robert Koch-Institute-Germany / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control). He has an extensive work experience in the area of health system building, diseases control and prevention in developed as well as in developing countries through various professional activities with well distinguished health institutions in the world. Nobila Ouédraogo will give Free Private Cities advice for regulating public health in all kinds of environments.

Ofer Rotem

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Ofer Rotem is a Founding Partner at Collider Ventures and an active Israeli angel investor in blockchain-related startups since 2013. Co-founder of the Israeli Bitcoin Association & the Israeli Blockchain Forum, frequently meeting regulators to promote responsible, innovative, and ideally less regulation, sponsoring hackathons and working with his portfolio companies.

Olivier Roland

Dubai, UAE

Olivier Roland dropped school to start his first  IT company at 19. He’s now a popular author and blogger, having created the most popular Youtube channel about entrepreneurship in French and the bestseller «Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance de rater ses études», (with a foreword from the famous French billionaire Xavier Niel). He has been travelling the world for more than 6 months a year since 2011, and now has an extended network of friends all around the globe, and continues to inspire hundred of thousands of people every month.

Raphaël Lima

Curitiba, Brazil

Libertarian activist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Ideias Radicais and an enthusiast of cryptocurrencies.

Richard Banks

Memmingen, Germany

Since the young age of 18, Richard Banks is an online entrepreneur. Over the years he became more successful and became an investor. With a passion for freedom of thought and action, he is a determined supporter of Free Private Cities.

Rodrigo Quercia

São Paulo, Brazil

A profound strategic thinker, Rodrigo Quercia is the CEO of the Brazilian conglomerate Grupo SolPanamby, where he led a strong overhaul of the group’s strategic direction into a more focused path of higher value creation, concentrating in real estate development and large land development projects. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Quercia experienced first-hand the devastating effects poverty can have. Realizing the causal role that bad governance has in generating impoverishment drove him to focus his efforts on sustainable socioeconomic development through governance reform. Prior to membership on the directorship of Tipolis, Quercia was CFO of NeWAY Capital and Honduras Prospera, and previously worked in the investment banking industry in Hong Kong and Brazil

Sebastian Chalupa

Toronto, Canada.

Sebastian Chalupa-Krebzdak is a Food Scientist with a comprehensive understanding of the many scientific and legal aspects of the food industry. He has developed many different food products, and has improved several different food safety systems for large and small businesses alike. He holds a Masters in Food Science and has experience working in industry, government, and academia. Sebastian will support Free Private Cities by creating cost-effective food safety systems while minimizing barriers to food product and process innovation.

Sebastian Grell

Hamburg, Germany.

Sebastian is driven in many of his projects by a vision to make our way of life and co-existence more freedom-friendly. As a friend of freedom, he is a crypto enthusiast and investor who is always looking for ways to make the world a better place. He believes that the world becomes a better place when it becomes freer, that is, when it is characterized by voluntary action. Studies in physics, economics and philosophy provided a good foundation for one of his greatest eureka moments. He had this one when he first came to grips with praxeology based on Ludwig von Mises (after the Hamburg Praxeological School). From that moment on, a heart that beats for freedom was joined by a solid theoretical understanding that he always strives to develop further through new insights.

Scott Forte

Portsmouth, NH, USA

Scott Forte is a Pilot, Real Estate Developer, Entrepreneur, and Freedom Enthusiast. Scott graduated from the «Harvard of the Sky» Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he earned an undergraduate in Aeronautical Science, with minors in both Business and Law. He went on to earn an MBA with a specialization in Finance. After flying Private Jets and selling charter on a fleet of Falcon 900’s & BBJs, Scott transitioned into Real-Estate Sales & Real-Estate Development. He has used his array skills to help start multiple tech companies. Freedom, Competition, and Meritocracy are political ideals Scott stands for and plans to incorporate in the many Free Private Cities he is working diligently to build.

Sonja Prstec

Zug, Switzerland

Sonja Prstec is a lawyer working in various innovative projects with disruptive ideas. She is trying to bridge existing legal frameworks with new emerging technologies and ideas, what she calls “overcoming the legal jetlag”. For the last three years she has been working with Swiss start-ups’ regulatory challenges and legal aspects of Blockchain technology and Blockchain property assets. A strong supporter of Free Private Cities as an alternative governance model, she will use her expertise to deal with regulatory challenges involving cutting-edge technologies.

Bucharest, Romania

Tudor is a tech entrepreneur who built and grew dozens of mobility and social apps, enabling more individual liberty. Having lived on several continents, he sees a great need for alternative development models. Tudor believes intentional communities and Bitcoin will shape the 21st century.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Camilo is a techie lawyer, nerd for Bitcoin, computer sciences, Austrian Economics and post fiat law. He´s been interested in urbanistic, law and Government problems his whole life.
He´s into crypto-anarchism and agorism and believes in the importance of  promoting the parallel polis concept and counter-economics culture. He believes in building alternative systems that allow people to freely and with full consent resolve the problems of living together. He works as a consultant helping Fintech & Blockchain oriented businesses.

Joe Quirk

Panama City, Panama

Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute and co-founder of Blue Frontiers. Joe Quirk is also a science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter, with a national bestseller in each category. He is co-author with Patri Friedman of Seasteading, an Amazon bestseller in the category of marine engineering. Joe leads a team of lawyers, engineers, business leaders, artists, and investors to establish the first floating community with unprecedented political autonomy in the waters of a host nation.

Matthias Gertz

Döbeln, Germany

Matthias Gertz is a business graduate and passed his tax advisor exam in 1998. Since then, together with his brother Hendrik, he has been managing the tax consultancy company founded in 1949 in Wilster, a small town near the mouth of the Elbe in Schleswig-Holstein, now in the third generation. From 2001 to 2017 he worked in various positions and areas outside the family company. In 2018 he took over the management of the Döbeln location as the successor to his father Horst Gertz. His extensive experience in the financial industry, including With the financial crisis of 2008, its precursors and aftermath, he processed into an overarching advisory approach for medium-sized entrepreneurs, which encompasses the entire assets of the client and integrates financial, legal and tax aspects into a financial architecture that is stable over the generations.

Patrik Schumacher

London, United Kingdom

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture and design brand.

Patrik studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London. He received his Diploma in architecture in 1990.  He has been a partner since 2003 and a co-author on all projects. In 2010 Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21^st century in Rome. He is an academician of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21^st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”. Patrik Schumacher is widely recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design.

Benno Büeler

Windhoek, Namibia

Benno Büeler is engaged in CITRA, a construction and development company in Cape Town. Prior to that, he has been CFO of a small international life insurance company in Europe. From education an agricultural engineer and mathematician, he is interested in fostering the development of African countries. As a Swiss, he is convinced that a liberal framework, strengthening freedom and self-responsibility, is a key prerequisite for long-term economic flourishing, life quality and personal dignity. Prosperity Zones and Free Private Cities could become an ideal approach to leap-frog development and offer a better living perspective for millions.

Frederik Roeder

Tallin, Estonia

Fred is Managing Director of the Consumer Choice Center and an Angel Investor in the Baltics. He is a Health Economist and has worked in healthcare reform in North America, Europe, and several former Soviet Republics. One of his passions is to analyze how disruptive industries and technologies allow consumers more choice at a lower cost. He also loves researching how innovation makes our lives better. Fred is very interested in consumer choice and regulatory trends in the following industries: Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Sharing Economy, Airlines.

Among many op-eds and media appearances, he has been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Die Welt, the BBC, BILD, ABC Portland News, Montreal Gazette, Daily Mail, Handelsblatt, Huffington Post Germany, CityAM. L’Agefi, and The Guardian.

Eric Yepao

San Pedro, Ivory Coast

Eric-Theodore Yepao is an innovative investor and an entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Nordland Holding Europe GmbH, a company specialized in land development in Ivory Coast. As an innovative investor, he invests in disruptive technologies worldwide. He is also a libertarian who believes in true free market economy, free trade, self-reliance,  individual liberties and the protection of private property rights. Eric worked for 15 years at Goldman Sachs in New-York and London, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

He speaks fluent Westlandic, German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and Mandarin. Among many op-eds and media appearances, he has been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Die Welt, the BBC, BILD, ABC Portland News, Montreal Gazette, Daily Mail, Handelsblatt, Huffington Post Germany, CityAM. L’Agefi, and The Guardian.

He speaks fluent Westlandic, German, French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and Mandarin. Among many op-eds and media appearances, he has been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Die Welt, the BBC, BILD, ABC Portland News, Montreal Gazette, Daily Mail, Handelsblatt, Huffington Post Germany, CityAM. L’Agefi, and The Guardian.