CurveBlock is a platform that uses blockchain technology to enable people to invest in property development projects in return for a share of the profit.
The future of Real Estate powered by Blockchain.
GARY WOODHEAD
CURVEBLOCK TEAM
Founder / CEO
With over 20 years construction industry experience, not only within the real estate development market but also other development sectors such as Commercial, Industrial & Agricultural developments. Along with Gary’s extensive construction experience & knowledge he’s also deeply involved in the world of BlockChain which unexpectedly created his concept and vision of CurveBlock and its core fundamentals. Personally mentored by two of the UK’s most successful property entrepreneurs; multi-millionaires Rob Moore & Mark Homer (ICME Inner Circle Mastermind Elite, invitation only).
ARRAN IMPORT
Founder / Head Of Developments Director
Arran has been working with CurveBlock in the background from the start, and is the one who’s responsible for on-boarding the other team members from his armoury, drawn from his extensive industry network of contacts. Arran has developed many sites over twenty years, and has made millions and lost millions because of the traditional banking systems who collapsed and recalled development funding during the last recession – exactly the scenario CurveBlock is positioning to de-risk. Arran is most recently responsible for the construction of an exclusive development of luxury houses.
ROGER RANSOME
Chief Technology Officer
Following a successful career in corporate IT for several multi-national enterprises, responsible for multi-million pound infrastructure projects, Roger brings real-world experience of IT Technical Architecture, Networks & Security, and Systems Design to CurveBlock. Since 2004 Roger has been a property investor. In addition to this he founded a successful business in 2015, gaining useful experience in finance, marketing and other business skills. He is passionate about crypto and the many use cases and efficiency benefits it brings.
CHRIS ROE
Commercial Director
With over 30 years construction industry experience operating as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in-house for client organisations, as a consultant to clients and in main contractor organisations, Chris possesses the necessary procurement knowledge and commercial skills to bring value to any construction project across most sectors. Chris is an advocate of CurveBlock and is excited about how Blockchain technology can be utilised to deliver real assets and provide genuine returns.
SIMON MALLINSON
Land & Planning Director (Manchester and Northern UK)
Simon is educated to post graduate level in town planning and has twenty years’ experience in the development industry. Mainly working directly with developers, Simon has vast experience in the sourcing of development opportunities and taking them through the legal and planning processes ready to be built. He has also been instrumental in the set up of new development companies in the period since the recession, and has more recently worked for a main agent delivering residential management solutions for large institutional clients.
MATTHEW COUCH
Land & Planning Director (London and Southern UK)
Matthew has 15 years experience in the real estate sector working with developers, agents and investors- both on the client and delivery side. Matthew has a vast experience in sourcing development sites with and without planning, or sites with capacity for planning gain- both on and off market and across the UK, but with a specific focus on London and the South. Matthew has developed a reputation for being able to add value to existing sites with consent by improving unit mix, optimising unit plans and delivering additional capacity on both surplus and under utilised land. Having been involved in the acquisition, development and sales functions for a number of developers (both regional and national), Matthew has an acute understanding of the complexities of the development process and is able to offer clients advice on unlocking access to additional revenue streams (entry and exit), complex financial modelling and exit strategy planning to meet, and improve upon, required financial returns.
JOEY JONES
Chief Revenue & Compliance Officer
Joey has many years of business management experience building successful teams and companies. Joey is also a Former Registered Investment Adviser with 37 agents geographically dispersed, and has built business from $0-$50M+ portfolios. This experience gave Joey deep understanding and knowledge within the Securities Compliance Arena. Working in the computing space for the last 10 year, and blockchain since 2016, Joey connects quickly with any target market and communicates well with all parties and publicly, which will have a substantial impact for CurveBlock around the world.
Simon Cocking
CURVEBLOCK ADVISOR TEAM
Marketing, Media and PR specialist
Simon Cocking is Chief Editor at Irish Tech News, CryptoCoinNews and InvestInIT – with over 1.5 million+ combined unique monthly views and growing. He is also the top ranked member of the ‘People of Blockchain’ (#1 for 2018 based on total funds raised).
He is also a business mentor and advisor working with 200+ successful ICOs to date. He has also been named many global Twitter influencer lists in the last 12 months.
He is an accomplished public speaker at events including TEDx, Web Summit, and overseas in Pyeonchang, Amsterdam, Dubai, Delhi, Kiev, Singapore, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Madrid, Tbilisi, Riga, Porto, Dublin and Helsinki in the last 12 months.
He has been based in Ireland for over 22 years and has cofounded or founded seven successful companies.
Savio Gomez
International Blockchain Strategy Advisor
Savio will join the team once the seedfunding round completes. With an MBA in international business, trade & logistics, Savio is a certified Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence professional, and a Master Mariner with degrees leading up to a PhD. He has close to three decades of diverse international experience within many sectors some of which are Technology & Blockchain. Savio’s abilities have created many collaborations with some amazin Blockchain companies around the world and CurveBlock are extremely delighted to have Savio as one of its advisors.
SANEM AVCIL
Blockchain Media & Strategy Specialist
ICO & STO Advisor who has helped raise over $40M for other blockchain projects. Sanem is a Top 10 AR / VR Influencer on Twitter, and an experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the emerging tech industry. As a skilled Social Media Marketing and Strategy planner, her educational background includes taking courses at both MIT and Harvard, and also with IBM.
ANTONY COTTERILL
CURVEBLOCK AMBASSADORS
Ambassador
Antony is a wheelchair tennis player who competes at an elite level, with career highlights includng a 2-time World Team Cup world champion (wheelchair tennis version of the Davis Cup), Doubles Masters world champion, and numerous ITF titles in both singles and doubles. He has represented GB for over 13 years and also represented GB at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. His career high world rankings are ‘5’ in singles and ‘3’ in doubles. He is really excited to be part of CurveBlock as he sees two of his interests outside of tennis – property and Blockchain – together in an amazing project.
JOSH WARRINGTON
Ambassador
Josh Warrington is a British professional boxer who has held the IBF featherweight title since May 2018. He has previously held the WBC International, European, Commonwealth, British, and English featherweight titles. Warrington is ranked as the no.1 featherweight in the UK and the no.3 featherweight in the world by BoxRec as of January 2019. With 28 wins and 0 losses in his career, Josh doesn’t believe in failure.
CurveBlock now has the official Ambassador partnership contract ready to sign
In terms of the overall delivery of the strategy of CurveBlock the selling of the end product is just as important as any other part of the process.
To maximise our market presence and ability to sell both directly to owner occupiers and to investors, we have recognised the need to partner with a credible and respected name in the real estate industry. For these reasons we have chosen to work with Savills due to their overall capability, market presence and credibility.
We believe that this strategic partnership will assist us in not only selling units both in the market and off plan, but will also assist the business in respect of land purchase and ability to deliver throughout the entire pre-development process through their consultancy offering.
At every stage Savills will be there alongside CurveBlock to provide security and stability in what can sometimes be a turbulent market.
SETsquared is a unique enterprise partnership and a dynamic collaboration between five leading research-led UK universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southmapton and Surrey. Twice ranked as the Global No.1 Business Incubator, they provide a wide range of highly acclaimed support programmes to help turn ideas into thriving businesses.
To date they have incubated 3600 companies and helped raise over £1.5B in funding, resulting in the creation of over 10,000 jobs.
FasterCapital is a virtual incubator and accelerator based in Dubai Internet City, that has multiple funding rounds per year.
CurveBlock is pleased to announce that after a rigerous vetting process, we have been accepted by FasterCapital as a partner for acceleration – thereby giving us access to funding, technical knowledge, mentorship and access to vital connections.
To date they have incubated 3600 companies and helped raise over £1.5B in funding, resulting in the creation of over 10,000 jobs.
CurveBlock Security
To ensure the CurveBlock ecosystem is safe & secure for the community, everything produced by Stratis will firstly be passed to Quantstamp for code approval, before ultimately being passed to Hacken to security test.
Combined this helps ensure CurveBlock is as secure as it can be and gives our community piece of mind.
Quantstamp do a security audit of the Exchange code to confirm it follows industry security guidelines.
Hacken run security tests against the Exchange to identify any remaining security vulnerabilities.
CURVEBLOCK AIRDROP
Join the CurveBlock Telegram Group and follow the instructions in the Pinned message to access our airdrop bot and join the Airdrop.
Our bot also has a referral program so you can boost your airdrop bonus by introducing other people to CurveBlock.
All participants are required to pass KYC/AML prior to token distribution.
