Areiel (武啸天) Wolanow
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Chief Technology Officer at Blok Solutions
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Blok Solutions

Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
About
Areiel Wolanow is a senior business leader with over 30 years of experience in business transformation solutioning, sales, and execution. He brings deep experience leading large, globally distributed teams, and has successfully built entire consulting practices from scratch, led programs of over 100 people through the full delivery life cycle, and managed budgets in excess of US$35M.

Areiel is a subject matter expert in DLT, financial inclusion, and alternative banking and insurance models. He has addressed the G20 and other major world forums, and advises central banks, financial regulators, and the UK Parliament on blockchain and financial inclusion. In addition to his core focus on banking and insurance, Areiel also has considerable business transformation experience in the telco and public sector industries. He is also an experienced delivery leader and published author on Agile software delivery disciplines.

In his position at IBM, Areiel regularly received top performance ratings and a number of service excellence awards, as well as having served in IBM's coveted Corporate Service Corps. Areiel has a solid background in international business and has worked on projects in over 40 countries, including the UK, USA, China, Singapore, India, Kenya, Indonesia, Mexico, Denmark, Poland, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Germany, UAE, and Turkey. He is a US citizen, a permanent resident of the UK, and available for engagements worldwide.

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Experience
Blok Solutions
Chief Technology Officer
Company NameBlok Solutions Full-time
Dates EmployedSep 2019 – Present
Employment Duration1 yr 3 mos
LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom
BLOK Solutions provides the trust and guaranteed authenticity to a range of business services, including bioscience, fintech, insurance, and geospatial mapping.

Working in collaboration with a close network of delivery partners, Blok applies emerging technologies to design and deliver business models which could not have been implemented without them.
Finserv Experts
Managing Director
Company NameFinserv Experts
Dates EmployedJun 2016 – Present
Employment Duration4 yrs 6 mos
LocationUK, Singapore
Finserv Experts is an independent consulting firm providing solutioning, business transformation delivery, and advisory experience in the following key areas
- Blockchain
- Machine Learning
- Financial inclusion
- Agile/DevOps adoption

Currently contracted by Deutsche Telekom to lead product design for their Blockchain Solution Center. At Lloyd's of London, served as the leader for the LMTOM blockchain delivery efforts, leading the successful delivery of a DLT-enabled prototype of a new business model for the London insurance market.
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House of Commons
Expert Advisor, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain
Company NameHouse of Commons
Dates EmployedJun 2018 – Present
Employment Duration2 yrs 6 mos
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
APPG-Blockchain is an advisory body of the UK Parliament. Its mission is to ensure that industry and society benefit from the full potential of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT) making the UK a leader in Blockchain/DLT’s innovation and implementation.
London Blockchain Foundation (LBCF)
Business Models and Solutions Ambassador
Company NameLondon Blockchain Foundation (LBCF)
Dates EmployedMay 2019 – Present
Employment Duration1 yr 7 mos
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
The London Blockchain Foundation is the UK's leading blockchain industry group. It sponsors thought leader events, consults with UK regulators on emerging blockchain regulators, collaborates with London-based accelerators and startup groups, and delivers direct advisory work on various blockchain initiatives. As the Business Case and Solution ambassador, my role is to represent the foundation when it is called upon to give guidance or locate experts in the development of effective product solutions and business models for new DLT-focused enterprises, and for DLT-enabled business transformation at established enterprises
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Blocksure
Non Executive Director
Company NameBlocksure
Dates EmployedAug 2017 – Present
Employment Duration3 yrs 4 mos
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Blocksure is an exciting startup that has developed a working solution for supporting the core insurance process cycle -- sales, placement, policy admin, and claims -- on a blockchain platform. I am helping them with their implementation, integration, partnership, and service delivery planning.
IBM
Company NameIBM
Total Duration11 yrs 7 mos
TitleASEAN Blockchain Services Leader, Global Cognitive Banking Leader, IBM Global Business Services
Dates EmployedNov 2015 – May 2016
Employment Duration7 mos
LocationGreater Jakarta Area, Indonesia
In this role, I was responsible developing and deploying IBM's blockchain solutions in ASEAN and cognitive banking solutions globally. I delivered projects using HyperLedger, the open-source blockchain platform for which IBM is a core contributor, and was also the recognized solution owner for a cognitive credit solution that allows banks and other financial institutions to grant credit to people and companies with no prior financial history.

During this time, I was also responsible for IBM's business consulting practice for the banking industry in Indonesia. I delivered consulting engagements, built effective delivery teams, and most of all, worked with our clients to help them define and achieve their business objectives.
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TitleBanking Industry Leader, East Africa, IBM Global Business Services
Dates EmployedJan 2014 – Oct 2015
Employment Duration1 yr 10 mos
LocationNairobi, Kenya; Bristol, UK
In this role, I was responsible for building a financial services consultancy from the ground up, growing it from zero to $5M over the course of two years. Responsibilities included building a local team, signing clients, delivering engagements, and recruiting a local leader to replace me once the practice was up and running.
TitleGlobal Customer-Facing Solutions Leader
Dates EmployedJan 2009 – Dec 2013
Employment Duration5 yrs
LocationGlobal
In this role, I designed and delivered complex, enterprise wide front office solutions for major banking clients worldwide, initially for the Central Europe Middle East Africa region across all industry groups and then globally for the banking and financial markets center of competency. In these roles, I supported local sales and delivery teams, enabling them to propose and win large implementation deals through the region, as well as providing delivery excellence support for troubled projects. In the CEEMEA region, I led the solutioning effort behind a 56% growth in year-to-year revenue signings.
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TitleProgram Delivery Manager
Dates EmployedNov 2004 – Dec 2008
Employment Duration4 yrs 2 mos
LocationLondon, Beijing, Bangalore
In this role, I led the delivery of large business transformation programs, managing geographically distributed teams of over 100 people to deliver process and technology change in the financial services, telco, and public industry sectors.
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Global EAI Competency Leader
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Education
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Degree NameM.B.A.Field Of StudyFinance
Dates attended or expected graduation1985 – 1987

UC Irvine
UC Irvine
Degree NameBAField Of StudyEconomics
Dates attended or expected graduation1981 – 1984