Spiros Margaris

Venture Capitalist, Advisor & Board Member

Margaris Ventures

Venture capitalist, futurist, keynote speaker, board member and senior advisor, is the founder of Margaris Ventures, and is the first international influencer to achieve ‘The Triple Crown’ ranking (the No. 1 Fintech, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain influencer by Onalytica). He was also ranked the global No. 1 Finance Influencer by Refintiv (Thomson Reuters). Ranked the global No. 1 Fintech Influencer by Onalytica. He was named The Key Opinion Leader (KOL) in Fintech (Who’s Who in Fintech?) by Onaytica. He is a top AI influencer, ranked as one of the leading thought leader by several industry publications since 2017. He regularly appears in the top three positions of established global industry influencer rankings. • Two fintech startup he advised have become unicorns (valuations of over $1 billion wefox and STC Pay). • He is a keynote speaker at international FinTech and InsurTech conferences. He also gave a TEDxAcademy Talk. He published an AI white paper, “Machine learning in financial services: Changing the rules of the game,” for the enterprise software vendor SAP. First non-IBM Keynote Speaker at the biggest IBM event in Europe (10/2019) “2019 IBM Systems Technical University”. • MBA Toronto University & EMBA Universität St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. • Sotheby’s ‘Styles In Art’ Course, London. • Investment committee member of one of the leading multi-family office fund advisory firms in Switzerland and Europe. Its 10-year return placed the firm within the top 5 percent among its peers. • Been chosen as an Author for @TheFINTECHBook (Wiley will be the global publisher of The FINTECH Book available from January 2016) to write about the Future of FinTech. • Placed 2nd in the equities division of Financial Trader magazine’s trading competition. • Co-founder of a financial technology (fintech) company based in New York that developed software to bring measurable accountability to investment advice at financial institutions through an objective, proprietary tracking and rating system. • Founder of one of the first innovative expert websites based in New York. Unlike traditional search engines and search sites, it provided an efficient mechanism, with a valuable human element, for users to find answers to their questions.