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Paul Griffiths

Senior Executive, Non-Executive Director
About

Accomplished finance executive with expertise in blockchain, AI, and legal affairs. Demonstrated success in building and managing fully tokenized VC ecosystems, raising significant investments, and driving growth. Seeking opportunities to leverage strategic thinking, financial acumen, and operational expertise to contribute to a dynamic organization. CAREER SUMMARY Consilience Group Ltd Consilience Group is a software development company specializing in building ecosystems necessary to drive innovation, create new companies, and disrupt industries. We combine expertise in blockchain, artificial intelligence, science and statistics, legal and regulatory affairs, along with a strong network of investment firms and corporations worldwide to develop the next generation of business ecosystems. As a proof of concept, we built Consilience Ventures, an ecosystem of business professionals and investors dedicated to significantly reducing the time technology start-up CEOs spend on raising capital and accessing high-quality networks. Consilience Ventures aims to save time and effort for start-ups in their journey of building and growing successful businesses. We have proven the asset tokenization model and have created a fully functioning SAAS asset tokenization platform that we are now marketing, with equity and property investments in progress, as well as investments in more exotic assets.

Previous Brands
Metricell
Testhouse Ltd
Nexus FrontierTech
L Marks
Consilience Group
Consilience Ventures
West London Collaborative
Microsoft for Startups
Bloodstone Solutions
Toucan Ventures
ECrent Worldwide Company Limited
The Best You Corporation Ltd
easyCar
easyGroup Ltd
Stelios Philanthropic Foundation
AKT II
WYG Group
Savoy Music
Work Experience
Group CFO
Feb ‘25 -
Metricell

Global CFO
Sep ‘23 - Jan ‘25
Testhouse Ltd

Interim Group CFO
Apr ‘19 - Sep ‘19
Nexus FrontierTech

Nexus FrontierTech is a London-based tech company specialising in the integration of AI solutions into their clients' existing systems and processes, helping them save time, money and resources by employing solutions that tackle the issues of inefficiencies and data waste. Their primary market includes large companies primarily in the financial services industry looking to streamline their operations.

External Mentor
Jan ‘19 - Dec ‘20
L Marks

COFO
Nov ‘18 - Sep ‘23
Consilience Group

CG Ltd is the FCA regulated, growth engine behind Consilience Ventures. Its role is to empower and grow the CV ecosystem as a whole. We operate with one core function is to build a private AI enabled ecosystem that will in the next five years help provide industry insights on some never before assessed data points on how to accelerate start-up growth and innovation. Your Capital is at Risk*

COFO
Nov ‘18 - Sep ‘23
Consilience Ventures

Consilience Ventures: Consilience Ventures is a digital venture capital ecosystem, using it's own digital currency (not a crypto-currency) to invest in high growth b2b start-ups from pre-seed to Series A. It uses a combination of data and human-driven decision making to raise the probability of selecting the best start-ups to which CV offers unparalleled support to achieve massive growth. Our Capital as a Service (CaaS) model coupled with our "Sprint Financing" method ensures that we are offering start-ups a unique opportunity to access to finance, access to talent through our curated network of global experts and our corporate clients and angel investors. Your Capital is at Risk*

Non Executive Director
Jul ‘18 - Nov ‘24
West London Collaborative

What is West London Collaborative? West London Collaborative CIC is a community-led consultancy working across London to co-produce better and braver solutions to local health and social care challenges We start from the position that in the 21st century our health & social care systems are flawed and need to be radically reimagined. We are commissioned to work with local communities to coproduce better & braver solutions to their health & social care challenges and we invest our profits into building resilient communities.

Business Mentor
Mar ‘18 - Dec ‘20
Microsoft for Startups

Committing $550m over the next two years to offer joint sales engagements with startups along with access to technology and new community spaces that promote collaboration across local and global ecosystems. Working with companies within the Microsoft ecosystem to help them grow and develop.

Chief Executive Officer/Co-founder
May ‘17 - Dec ‘17
Bloodstone Solutions

Short version – we build robots. Not ordinary robots with square heads, electronic noises and clumsy movement, but ones that look, talk and move like human. Hence we are actually building Artificial People (AP).

Business Mentor
Jan ‘17 - Dec ‘20
Toucan Ventures

Toucan is a boutique venture capital fund founded and managed by the ‘Said’ family and supports creative entrepreneurs as a long term partner through the tough start-up phases by using Mentor and Investor networks. They specialise in the Food & Beverage, Lifestyle and Retail sectors. To provide support for start ups within the Toucan ecosystem sitting on a panel of business mentors including 2 Michelin Star Chef & restaurateur Marcus Wareing and Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed.

CEO
Mar ‘16 - Mar ‘17
ECrent Worldwide Company Limited

A listed Hong Kong based global rental/sharing economy platform now expanding into UK, Europe and US, ECrent aims to be the largest and most extensive global online rental platform, encouraging people to share through renting to protect our environment. • To found and manage the UK entity • To establish sales team • Raise private equity funding to launch marketing initiative • Establish M & A targets and grow the company through acquisitions • Work with UK Government to establish UNECE PPP certification making us the 1st UK company to do so • Open up strategic partnerships with appropriate companies • Lead the company to major funding event • Set-up partnerships in Benelux and Scandinavian areas • Set-up integrated blockchain payment system • Achieved ‘Green light’ status from UK Dept. of International Trade as a company of ‘exceptional potential’ • Enrolled on the UK Dept. of International Trade Global Entrepreneurs Program • first 30k UK items listed • Presented at ‘Capital on Stage’ event June 16

Chief Operating / Financial Officer
Jan ‘16 - Dec ‘17
The Best You Corporation Ltd

A leading personal and professional development events company managing courses, a bimonthly magazine, annual EXPO and inspirational events.

Non Executive Director
Jan ‘13 - Dec ‘14
easyCar

Non-Executive Director – Lowcost Vehicle Rentals Ltd t/a easyCar

Head of Finance, Business Development & Commercial
Sep ‘10 - Dec ‘16
easyGroup Ltd

easyGroup is the owner of the “easy” brand founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou who is still Chairman. Operating as both brand owner and investment vehicle “easy” has been a leading budget brand in Europe for 20 years, initially in travel and leisure but now expanding across a variety of sectors.  Reporting directly to Chairman/shareholders, accountable for annual revenues of £13 million and a team of 12.  Manage existing and future brand licensees and wholly owned businesses including easyJet plc, easyHotel plc, easyGym, easyProperty, easyBus and our newest ventures, easyCoffee & easyFoodstore.  Manage 100% owned new businesses to the stage where they are ready for external investment then managing that process be it through IPO or VC/PE backed funding  Responsible for investments, property, HR, IT, legal, procurement and corporate finance also focusing on the strategic forward planning of the business.  Work with lawyers to negotiate commercial contracts and deal with litigation be it brand related of general  Primary contact with Shareholders and Holding company board to manage the business

Head Of Finance & Operations
Sep ‘10 - Dec ‘16
Stelios Philanthropic Foundation

making donations of over £1m per annum covering education, entrepreneurship and the environment

Finance Manager
Dec ‘07 - Sep ‘10
AKT II

Finance Manager
May ‘06 - Sep ‘10
WYG Group

Partner
Jan ‘04 - May ‘06
Savoy Music

Languages
English
London, UK