Tokenizing the World: Why the Future of Crypto and Blockchain Technology is the Mass Tokenization of Real-World Assets, with Carlos Balbin

Carlos Balbin is a Venture Partner, who specializes in sourcing early-stage deals in AI, Web3, and Fintech. Throughout his career, Carlos has embraced a disciplined, facts based, collaborative, innovative and results oriented approach gained along his more than 20 years of experience as a Banker and Consultant. Academically, Carlos always ranked #1 in high school, well versed in math and quant skills, holds a BA degree in Business Administration with specialization in Strategy and Finance from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Top Tier) as well as an MBA from Tepper Business School at Carnegie Mellon University (Top Tier) with specializations in Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, and Data Analytics. A visionary that pioneers in new market opportunities as demonstrated by his early research papers on Neural Networks (2000) and Blockchain (2015) Carlos is always looking to build his skillset and has just graduated from a Venture Capital Program at GoingVC – Cohort 13. Professionally, Carlos started his banking career in Scotiabank performing in several roles in Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Commodity Research, and Investment Banking. Migrated to USA in 2005 where he continued his career progression in the Hedge Fund Industry before his MBA. Post graduation, he became a Strategy Consultant for Banking, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions working for Cognizant and later for American Express as a Risk Manager for Commercial Portfolios. In addition to sourcing VC deals, Carlos is running his independent Fractional CFO Consulting Practice at Pathfinders Advisors LLC enjoying a lot to help entrepreneurs to meet their goals. Carlos has an impressive and successful track record of portfolio management in the order of billions across several industries Personally, Carlos is as multifaceted as the industries he has covered. For instance, Carlos enjoys cooking, singing, guitar playing, hiking, kayaking, traveling, wine tasting, paragliding, dancing, mountain climbing, and teaching. He also speaks Spanish, English, and French. Currently learning Russian and German