Arno is a Corporate Venturing expert in the space of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Digital Assets, and Web3. Arno has initiated the launch of the DEC Institute together with leading academic institutions, which has launched the international charter holder programs CBX® and CDAA® for talent and professionals in the blockchain space. From 2019-2022 Arno was heading the corporate development of Atomyze, a USD 30 mio. industry-backed digital marketplace for tokenization and trading of commodities on blockchain technology. Before that, he worked as a corporate development manager for Swisscom Blockchain AG. Arno started his career in Strategy Consulting at Monitor Deloitte and was professionalizing his blockchain know-how by working for the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab in Dublin in 2017. Arno is a lecturer on blockchain & crypto finance at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts in Switzerland.