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Table of contents Introduction
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Problem/Solution
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Personal Automated Trading System
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About PATS
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PATS Algorithms
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BmyCoin (BMYC)
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About BMYC
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Parameters
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Issuance
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Development
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Traction to date
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BmyBit in numbers
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Road map
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Marketing and financials
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Go to market
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Competition
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Financial model
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About us Team
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Introduction BmyBit enables arbitrage and automatic trading across digital asset exchanges. The Personal Automated Trading System created by the CEO, Mario Stumpo, is a cloud-based web application using predictive analytics and interconnected to digital exchanges through APIs. The platform allows customers to conduct their own trading without holding their funds. Blockchain developed by BmyBit is used to issue a MultiChain based Token, BmyCoin (BMYC), which allows users registered at bmybit.com to pay fees for using the platform’s services, including PATS and arbitrage. As of now, there are over 120 holders of the Token and more than 600 BmyCoin transactions have been made. During the Token Pre-Sale, BmyBit sold 11,5 thousand BMYC, while 1,1 thousand BMYC has been earned back. To better support its expanding customer base, BmyBit created a dedicated forum for members of its community - BmyBit Club. The Club is a space where all users of the platform can exchange thoughts, comments and ask questions about anything connected to BmyBit. Currently, there are over 2,000 users registered on the platform and more than 300 of them are active traders on PATS. The average profits from trading through PATS reach 4.42%, with a typical strategy being active for 11 hours. Some of the results are truly astounding, with 203% profits scored by one of the users, followed by 119% and 76.03% by two other traders. The number of strategies opened to date has surpassed 5,5 thousand allowing for 178 BTC being traded on bmybit.com. One of the company's goals for the future is to obtain the relevant FCA’s licenses to create the first Automated Hedge Fund for cryptocurrencies. The idea is to allow BmyCoin holders to keep full control of their funds, as well as leverage their investment and use Social Trading features, which will be possible thanks to the blockchain consensus. Other plans involve Digital Asset Exchange implementation in the third quarter of 2018 and introducing APIs Banks in the first quarter of 2019. BmyBit will also work on incorporating improvements in accordance with Payment Service Directive EU.
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Problem
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Cryptocurrency trading is a fast growing segment of day trading but currently, many traders, professional and non-professional, are obliged to jump from one exchange to another in order to make better profits. Although, it is a rather tedious job, many traders find it to be the only solution to navigating through the crowded cryptocurrency exchange market.
Solution BmyBit has developed a Personal Automated Trading System (PATS) which operates across multiple digital asset exchanges. There is no deposit required when joining PATS and the customers’ funds are stored safely in the wallets of the exchanges chosen by them. The API facility will enable customers to conduct their own trading. The BmyBit Blockchain will be used to release the BmyBit Token and to store data from customers. The Token is a type of currency used to pay fees on the Local platform and to distribute dividends to investors. If users hold BmyBit Tokens, they hold a portion of the platform and, therefore, are entitled to their share of the platform’s profits.
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Personal Automated Trading System
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About PATS The BmyBit's Personal Automated Trading System - PATS - is a cloud-based web application using, that integrates the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges into a single application. To start automated trading strategies with PATS, users must integrate their accounts with exchanges through API (Application Programming Interface) keys. An API key is a code utilised by computer programs calling the API to identify the calling program, its developer, or its user to the Web site. (Each exchange provides API keys to their users) Before starting a strategy, users can switch the currency pair; switch to a different exchange; check the total balances, the funds available and, the funds in strategies
Security measures Users' passwords are hashed using PBKDF2, and all user-provided API keys are encrypted using AES-256. BmyBit HTTP and WebSocket traffic are encrypted using TLS. The number of decimals we are operating with during our calculations can vary from the liquidity providers. BmyBit can increase or decrease the number of decimals according to their policies and is currently operating with 8 decimals.
Benefits Users' funds stay safely stored in the wallets of their exchanges. Our sophisticated algorithms work 24/7 with no downtime. Businesses and developers can use our infrastructures for developing their own automated trading solutions. BmyBit does not charge fees based on initial investments and profits achieved.
Cloud based
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No deposit required
No Fees
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REST API
PATS Algorithms There are 3 different ways of making profits with PATS. Each algorithm represents an automated strategy that will help users to achieve their goals.
1- Static trading strategy A PATS strategy automatically places orders to buy and to sell in order to increase the amount of the digital assets involved with a chosen pair.
Minimum profits BTC
Minimum profits BTC
orders to sell 1a
orders to buy 1b Minimum buying point
starting point Minimum profits XXX
selling point
profits XXX
(initial investment)
orders to buy 1a
The PATS strategy automatically splits the initial investment in 2 equal sides and converts one side of the investment in the second currency of the pair (i.e.: if a user starts a strategy with BTC-LTC with an initial investment of 1 BTC, the PATS strategy immediately convert 0.5 BTC in LTC).
0.5 BTC
split Initial Investment: 1 BTC Pair: BTC-LTC
0.5 BTC converted in LTC
By splitting the investment into 2 sides, and converting one side in the other currency of the pair, the PATS strategy determines the initial price of the investment that will determine the calculation of the profits and of the losses. 3 2
2-Dynamic trading strategy The Dynamic trading strategy is an advanced version of the Standard trading strategy. It automatically places orders to buy and to sell in order to increase the amount of the digital assets involved with a chosen pair. It also follow the waves in order to restart the strategy every time that the price go far above the last selling price or far below the last buying price(but always above the risk level).
restart strategy
volatility seeker ask Minimum profits BTC orders to sell 1a
restart strategy selling point
(initial investment)
volatility seeker bid
orders to buy 1a
Minimum profits XXX
starting point
Minimum profits XXX
restarting point
restart strategy orders to buy 1a
restart strategy
Risk
3-Arbitrage BmyBit allows the simultaneous buying and selling of assets in different markets with the aim to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset across multiple exchanges.
Poloniex
Bittrex
BTC-USD
size
price
size
00.02905021 15.40342007
5725.720000 5725.000000
00.02905023 16.40342007
Price: 6.000$ 2.070000000 1.294856200
BUY
5731.010000 5730.870000
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SELL
price 5726.720000 5726.000000
Price: 6.025$
2.080000000 1.304856200
5732.010000 5731.870000
BmyCoin (BMYC)
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About BmyCoin (BmyBit Token) BmyCoin (BMYC) runs on a private blockchain which is unique and Bitcoin compatible. BMYC allows registered users to process payments, as well as to share the profits generated by our PATS. The token will entitle users to receive a share of the profits generated by our PATS. The share of each user will be distributed on a quarterly base and calculated over the percentage of BMYC that they hold compared to the total amount issued. BmyBit will issue a total of 10 million BmyCoins, which will represent 40% of the platform’s value. Dividends will be payed to the holders on a quarterly basis, with the payouts starting in the end of the first quarter of 2018. The company launched the Pre-sale of the token on August 16th, 2017. The crowdsale started at the initial price of $2.85, followed by an increase to $3.50 at the end of it. We aim to obtain the relevant FCA licenses to create the first Automated Hedge Fund for cryptocurrencies BMYC allows users to be part of a democratic system and will help them with keeping control of their invested funds. Y
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MultiChain Technology Bitcoin compatible A key design principle of MultiChain is maximal compatibility with Bitcoin Core, the reference client for the bitcoin network. This includes bitcoin’s network protocol, transaction format, block format and output scripts, as well as Bitcoin Core’s runtime parameters and JSON-RPC API. Almost all of the information in the Bitcoin Developer Documentation is applicable to MultiChain. Managed permissions We can dynamically control who can connect, send and receive transactions, create assets, streams and blocks. Each blockchain is as open or as closed as you need. Data streams We can create multiple key-value, time series or identity databases on a blockchain. Ideal for data sharing, timestamping and encrypted archiving. 6
BmyCoin Parameters root-stream-open
TRUE
lock-admin-mine-rounds
10
target-block-time
15
mining-requires-peers
TRUE
maximum-block-size
1000000000
mine-empty-rounds
10
anyone-can-connect
FALSE
mining-turnover
0.5
anyone-can-send
FALSE
initial-block-reward
0
anyone-can-receive
FALSE
first-block-reward
-1
anyone-can-receive-empty
TRUE
reward-halving-interval
52560000
anyone-can-create
FALSE
reward-spendable-delay
1
anyone-can-issue
FALSE
minimum-per-output
0
anyone-can-mine
FALSE
maximum-per-output
1E+18
anyone-can-activate
FALSE
minimum-relay-fee
0
anyone-can-admin
FALSE
native-currency-multiple
100000000
support-miner-precheck
TRUE
skip-pow-check
FALSE
allow-p2sh-outputs
TRUE
pow-minimum-bits
4
allow-multisig-outputs
TRUE
target-adjust-freq
-1
setup-first-blocks
60
allow-min-difficulty-blocks
FALSE
mining-diversity
0
only-accept-std-txs
TRUE
admin-consensus-upgrade
0.5
max-std-tx-size
100000000
admin-consensus-admin
0.5
max-std-op-returns-count
1024
admin-consensus-activate
0.5
max-std-op-return-size
2097152
admin-consensus-mine
0.3
max-std-op-drops-count
5
admin-consensus-create
0.3
max-std-element-size
32768
admin-consensus-issue
1
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BmyCoin (Issuance) The total amount of BmyCoin issued will be 10 million. 1.5 million BmyCoins will be distributed for the marketing bounties to the crowd, and an additional 2 million will be allocated amongst the BmyBit team members. BmyBit will keep 2.5 million Tokens in reserve, while the crowdsale, which inlcudes the Pre-sale and the ICO, will constitute for 4 million BmyCoins. Additionally, 2 million BmyCoins will be burnt on the “first-in, first-burnt” basis, starting immediately. The total of other 3 million BmyCoin will start being burnt as soon as the reserve of 2.5 million BmyCoins will start to be released in the market.
Total BmyCoin (BMYC) 10,000,000
To Burn 2,000,000
Crowdsale 4,000,000
Reserve 2,500,000
Team 2,000,000
40%
25%
20%
Pre-sale BMYC 1,000,000 10%
ICO BMYC 3,000,000 30%
Marketing 1,500,000
15%
Period 1
Period 2
Period 3
Period 4
100,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
$2.85 $285,000.00
$3.00 $750,000.00
$3.25 $975,000.00
$3.50 $1,225,000.00
Period 1
Period 2
Period 3
Period 4
500,000
650,000
850,000
1,000,000
$4.25 $4.50 $2,000,000.00 $2,762,500.00
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20%
$4.75 $5.00 $4,037,500.00 $5,000,000.00
Development
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Traction to date 1st May 2016 - 6th November 2017
Our users Non-paying Users
Active traders +300
Active traders on PATS
Users +2K
BmyCoin Holders
BmyCoin Holders +120
BmyCoin Holders + Traders on PATS
Users 50.6 K
Sessions 94.3 K
Page Views 310.6 K
Avg. Session Duration 00:04:58
Bource Rate 59.83%
Pages/Session 3.29
Conversions 1850
42.4% New Visitors
57.6% Returning Visitors
Audience Overview 45.0 K 36.0 K 27.0 K 18.0 K 9.0 K 0 May 16
Aug 16
Nov 16
Feb 17
May 17
Aug 17
Nov 17
source: google analytics
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BmyBit in numbers PATS
BmyCoin
Blockchain
Average Profits Lifetime
11 hours
4.42%
N. Strategies Opened
Blockchain Transactions
+5.5K
+10K BMYC Transactions
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BMYBIT
+600
Total Volume Traded
+178 BTC
BMYC Holders
BMYC Earned Back
+110
+1.1K BMYC Sold (pre-sale)
+11.5K
PATS best results BTC/BTA STRATEGY
SCORES + 203% BTC
Started 5 June 2017 20:58 Closed 2 July 2017 21:00 BTC/ABY STRATEGY
SCORES + 119% BTC
Started 19 January 2017 10:09 Closed 13 February 2017 22:07 BTC/USD STRATEGY
SCORES + 76.03% BTC
Started 30 September 2017 17:19 Closed 18 October 2017 18:10 source: bmybit.com as of 06/11/2017
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Road map 30 Dec 2015 Jan 2016
PATS Beta
May 2016
1st BmyBit Hackathon (Trading contest)
Oct 2016
New Design
Jan 2017
PATS Release
Jun 2017
BMYC Release (pre-sale)
Aug 2017
REST APIs (Beta)
Sep 2017
10 Exchanges (Beta)
Sep 2017
Arbitrage (Beta)
Oct 2017
BmyBit Hackathon (Open APIs contest)
Nov 2017
To-do list
1st PATS Prototype
Dynamic Strategy (Beta)
Dec 2017
ICO
Dec 2017
FCA Application Process (Start)
Jan 2018
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Social Trading (Beta)
May 2018
Digital Exchange BMYC-BTC
Dec 2018
APIs Bank
Apr 2019
Achieved
BmyBit Ltd Incorporation
Marketing and financials
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Go-to-market Revenue (1 Aug 2017-31 Oct 2017) Monthly expenditure per user
$4.60
Annual expenditure per user
Total revenue:
$55.00
$44K
We integrate the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges into a single application. EXCHANGES
N. OF USERS
TAM CALCULATION
COINBASE/GDAX
6,000,000
COINBASE/GDAX
$330,120,000
BITTREX
800,000
BITTREX
$44,016,000
OTHER PROVIDERS
4,000,000
OTHER PROVIDERS
$220,080,000
TOTAL
10,800,000
TOTAL TAM FOR PATS (£/YEAR)
$594,216,000
Although there are more than 100,000,000 cryptocurrency users spread worldwide, the number of wallets enabling users to trade pairs of currencies is around 10,800,000. 6M COINBASE/GDAX 4M OTHER PROVIDERS 0.8M BITTREX 10.8M BMYBIT
TAM = $595 M Our products and services are available on BmyBit.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Marketing campaigns recently started on alternative channels/forums dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Bitcoinadz.io is our business partner for marketing with referrals.
Other
Referral Sessions: 54,085 Avg. Session Duration: 00:03:54 Conversion Rate: 2.98%
Direct Sessions: 18,251 Avg. Session Duration: 00:05:14 Conversion Rate: 2.77%
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Users registered with BmyBit: +2K
Organic Search Sessions: 6,716 Avg. Session Duration: 00:10:04 Conversion Rate: 4.41%
Sessions: 91 Avg. Session Duration: 00:13:22 Conversion Rate: 8.79%
Social Sessions: 1,823 Avg. Session Duration: 00:08:57 Conversion Rate: 6.64%
Competition TradeBlock, a New York-based company, can be considered as BmyBit’s main competitor. This company operates within the same field of the PATS (open APIs, blockchain, trading with cryptocurrencies, and compliance) but with a different business model.
Although TradeBlock is already connected with 7 liquidity providers (more than PATS), its services are geared towards enterprises and relies on a B2B SaaS model. BmyBit wants to innovate by introducing a multileveled blockchain with a C2C SaaS model. By providing different levels of membership, PATS users will be able to allocate funds to other users for trading and generate profits from other users' strategies. PATS would also assist the development of other businesses through its open APIs. Other automated trading systems, such as Haasonline and BTC-Robot, can be considered competitors of PATS, but only in their basic trading functionality. While Haasonline is designed for coders and hackers that want to implement their own codes for trading online, BTC-Robot does not offer any customisable service. Both Haasonline and BTCRobot use B2C and B2B SaaS models and sell their services through monthly and yearly subscriptions. Focusing on different aspects of open APIs interconnections and aiming to develop a multileveled blockchain system, Bmybit can't be considered as a direct competitor of Haasonline and BTC-Robot but it is always monitoring them features in order of improving customer experience, data visualisation, and other (eventual) technological innovations.
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Financial Model (USD) Year 1
Revenue Costs
Year 2 $1,201,304
$115,332,180
Costs of Good Sold
$257,532
$402,952
Sales & Marketing
$613,611
$2,479,785
Research & Development
$83,185
$158,510
General & Administrative
$452,474
$452,474
-$205,498
$7,038,457
EBIT
Cash needed to cover costs
$450,000
PRE-MONEY VALUATION
$7,860,000
Growth Hypothesis Projected Market share: 0.93% Projected Number of Customers: 100K Year 1
Year 2
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
$4.60
$4.60
$4.60
$4.60
$4.30
$430
$3.90
$3.90
Monthly growth rate in number of new customer
35%
30%
25%
20%
10%
8%
6%
3%
Monthly revenue churn rate
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
50.0%
30.0%
20.0%
15.0%
10.0%
Hypotheses Average monthly price of subscriptions
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About us
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Team The story of BmyBit Ltd began in December 2015, when Mario Stumpo founded the company in London. At that time, BmyBit was taking its very first steps with the Personal Automated Trading System (PATS). Testing the PATS prototype was necessary to ensure that the system was working properly. The first PATS prototype was introduced in March 2016, while additional trading functions were added several months later, in October 2016. With time, the BmyBit team was also expanding. Mario was joined by two engineers, Haithem Abdelli and Samir Allous, who helped him with transforming his vision of the platform into reality. The website’s current design was created by Ilaria Morelli, an accomplished designer, who also joined BmyBit’s at the early stages of its incorporation. One of the most important people, who have been involved with the company from its infancy stage, is Jonathan Price. Currently, the director of BmyBit, Jonathan was also its first investor together with Steve Bailey. BmyBit’s growth was marked by new logo incorporation in April 2017, as well as introduction of new landing page design. Another huge milestone for the company was the deployment of the first liquidity provider, Bittrex, which was followed by adding two more exchanges, Poloniex and Gdax. At the same time, BmyBit started participating in Huge Thing acceleration programme, during which the Pre-Sale of BmyCoin began. The wallet for BmyBit’s Token was also released, opening the door for the upcoming ICO, which will take place at the end of 2017.
MARIO STUMPO
Founder and CEO
MSc Law @LUISS - MSc Economics @LUISS - PGC Finance @LSBF
Mario is LUISS Guido Carli University graduate, where he obtained an MSc in Law and an MSc in Economics. He also studied at London School of Business and Finance, where he achieved a PGC in Finance. Passionate about the numbers, Mario started his career in Rome, working as a tax advisor for some of the leading Italian firms. After discovering cryptocurrencies, he developed several algorithms for trading and predicting value of currencies. This interest led him to founding BmyBit Ltd.
SAMIR ALLOUS
CTO
Engineer's degree in Computer science @ENSI Samir graduated from the National School of Science in Tunisia, where he obtained Engineer’s degree in Computer Science. Samir is an ambitious CTO with passion for new technologies, which makes his job at BmyBit an intriguing challenge. He is highly skilled with data securities and capable of solving problems in many different areas of technology. At the same time, Samir is an extremely humble individual who understands the needs of customers and always delivers solutions which fit their expectations.
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Team JONATHAN PRICE
Director
MA Law @University of Cambridge Jonathan is an accomplished, adaptable and visionary director with wide-ranging and varied expertise and a wealth of global business knowledge across a broad range of client and employer sectors, including not for profit. Jonathan is also the first investor of BmyBit, as well as an investor in several other successful companies. Currently, he holds the position of a director at BmyBit and is also a mentor of Mario. He is also a lecturer of M&A at the University of Law of London, and at the London School of Business and Finance.
STEVE BAILEY
CFO
Council Member @ACCA Steve is a successful investor, entrepreneur and director. He has cross-board experience in FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 companies including Reed, G4S, Datapay, Sage, XO and Experian. He is regularly published in financial, technology, security and sustainability matters. Steve is also a visiting lecturer on the Sales and Marketing MBA course at the Grenoble Business School. As a specialist in business growth, financial management, and strategic planning, he contributes his knowledge and experience to the company's development.
ILARIA MORELLI
Designer
BSc Industrial Design @La Sapienza - MSc Photography @ScuolaRomana di Fotografia Ilaria is a visionary designer, whose background lies in fashion and food photography. She began her journey with design in Rome, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from La Sapienza University, as well as Master’s degree in Photography from Scuola Romana di Fotografia. Ilaria joined BmyBit in London with an aim dedicate her skills to enhance the website’s usability and develop its new layout. Currently, she is responsible for all the creative design decisions at BmyBit, while working closely with Mario Stumpo and Samir Allous on the company's overall development.
VLADISLAV IOUKHYMA Regulatory Adviser LLB (Hons) Laws @Durham University LLM International Banking and Finance Law @University College London Vladislav is a young professional who started his career as a regulatory consultant for financial services firms.His Consulting experience includes advisory on FCA authorisations for a variety of consumer credit firms. Vladislav currently provides compliance oversight to a major automotive manufacturer with respect to lending and credit broking activities as part of the consumer credit regime. Canadian, amateur trader, tiramisu enthusiast - Vladi is the perfect match for a FinTech start-up.
HAITHEM ABDELLI
Software Engineer
Engineer's degree in Computer science @ENSI
Haithem is the first engineer who joined Mario in his venture. He is a brilliant developer, who is able to learn new skills fast and with an obsessive attention to detail. Haithem obtained an Engineer’s degree in Computer Science at the National School of Science in Tunisia, where he held the position of president of the OSSEC. Haithem is a supporter of the open source system, as well as an accomplished violinist.
ALICJA RUTKOWSKA
Content Marketing
BA Music with Enterprise @University of Leeds
Alicja graduated from University of Leeds with a Bachelor’s degree in Music with Enterprise. She is an experienced content writer with a history of working in the music industry. She learnt skills in music, business, as well as media and communication. Today, while working for BmyBit, she hopes to use her arts and music background as an additional value for the team.
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