Ralf Gerteis

Ralf is an entrepreneur and successful executive with extensive experience in various capacities in blockchain, token metrics/economics, IDO, DeFi, NFT, DAO, tokenization, fundraising strategies, business development, advisory, consulting, project management with a total business experience of more than 20 years and successfully leading 20+ international projects for major MNCs.

After 10 years at Novartis in positions with increasing responsibility, Ralf took over the position as a Manager in a Deloitte spin-off (ABeam Consulting). In 2012, he founded Fusion Consulting AG as a sole founder. Ralf developed the company as CEO to a mid-sized group of companies with a global footprint and several foreign subsidiaries within 4 years. After his exit in 2016, Ralf fully focused on the blockchain sphere. He was advising a number of ventures, invested in various blockchain-based projects as angel investor, collaborated with organizations like Bitcoin Suisse, Swisscom Blockchain, InnMind and he got engaged with leading organizations.

Ralf is a selected Strategic Advisor to Xiaochen Zhang’s FinTech4Good initiative and Expert at Blockchain Founders Fund. Ralf is also Advisor and Angel investor to MetisDAO where he joined the board with Medha Parlikar (CTO and Co-Founder of CasperLabs) and Ralf has been a panelist, startup mentor and pitch jury member of various blockchain-focused events. Ralf is Co-Founder and CEO of Scaleswap, a next-generation IDO launchpad on layer 2 (powered by Polygon).

Scaleswap successfully closed its seed and private round of total 2.5m USD and public testing was successfully completed recently on Mainnet. In total, Ralf is active full-time in the blockchain sphere for 5 years since then and has developed an extensive global network with top stakeholders of all kinds and also with 30k connections on LinkedIn.

• Scaleswap Co-Founder & CEO