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Michael Mainelli

Executive Chairman

Z/Yen Group

Registered Member

Member since: 04 Nov 2016

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Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS, a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. He began his career as a research scientist in aerospace & cartography, then entered the City in 1984 ahead of Big Bang, becoming an accountancy-firm partner and later a director of Ministry of Defence research. At the MoD he ran over 70 spin-out projects including the establishment of the national nano-materials centre, the Financial £aboratory, Lidar, and the creation of the European Institute for Quantum Computation. He co-founded Z/Yen in 1994, the City of London’s leading think-tank, to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. He has led Z/Yen from creating mutual distributed ledgers (aka blockchain technology) in 1995 through Taskforce 2000, Long Finance, the Global Financial Centres Index and the Global Intellectual Property Index. His biggest technical claim to fame might be the first digital map of the world and laser-line following digitisers. He is an Alderman of the City of London, Emeritus Professor & Trustee at Gresham College, non-executive director of two listed firms and a regulator, and trustee of several charities. He has written numerous academic papers and his third book, The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, won the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize.