[Mentor]

Chairman of the board at Aergo

Phil Zamani is Chairman of the board at Aergo and COO of Blocko.

He is a veteran business manager with over 20 years experience in building businesses using leading-edge open source solutions and now blockchain - with an unusual combination of strategy, business and deep technical capabilities. Phil is experienced and successful in both disruptive small start-ups and large global companies. He is Cloud and Big Data Innovation leader at Deutsche Telekom and Santander.

Phil has built advanced technical teams around the world, that have successfully advised and helped forward looking clients to design, adopt and deploy in production - new products and services built around a core set of open source solutions (GNU, Linux, Spring, Openstack, Hadoop, Docker/Kubernetes and blockchain). Very focused on customer business value creation using technology, and in building supporting developer and partner eco-systems. He experienced board advisor/chairman and (pro-bono) adviser to young startups (Oxford and Warwick Business Schools).