After completing a commercial education in banking, Raffaele Carmine became involved in Private Banking and progressed to Investment Banking. He was promoted to Head of Bond Trading at Director level with one of the larger Swiss banks. While working in this area, he completed a post graduate program in Finance at the Institute of Financial Services Zug (IFZ) earning the qualification of Certified International Financial Analyst (CIIA). He left banking to successfully launch over a dozen start-ups. Since then, he acts as an active angel investor, consultant and entrepreneur.

Raimund Buhr is a Business Professional with global experience in a wide range of technologies, this allows for maximising the effective use of technology to gain business benefit in areas like Sales, Marketing, General Management, Business Consulting and Project Management. Having qualified in the Construction Industry he developed project management and turn around management skills with various professional consultancies on projects for Banks and Insurance companies. This opened the door to the ERP side of IT consulting where he became an ERP Projects functional consultant in the Supply Chain environment working for the likes of IBM. Comfortable operating at the highest levels across a range of companies and industries such as Flextronics, Afgri, Invensys, UK Government, JTI etc. with a record of building strong, successful relationships with prime influencers, senior executives and business partners. Sound professional judgement allied to a strong entrepreneurial flair has resulted in delivery of results and high commercial awareness. Good interpersonal, multi-linguistic skills and cultural awareness enables effective business interaction internationally.