About Us
Navigators
For thousands of years, aboard every ship, the key adviser to the captain has been the navigator. His counsel was trusted, his actions carried out with the crew, often at peril. With skill, experience, and clear speech, he guided the vessel to steer its true course.
Even today, one enduring maritime rule holds firm:
if any man assumes knowledge he does not possess, the lives of all souls on board are placed in jeopardy.
Our clients are captains of their own ships.
We are their advisers and navigators.
The Future of Money is Digital
The Future of Money is digital: blockchain redefines trust, tokenisation redefines ownership, digital securities become reality and instant settlement redefines time.
Smart Treasury Management fuses technology and intelligence, mastering liquidity, funding, and risk with unprecedented precision.
Digitised reporting and decision-making turn governance and compliance from burdens into competitive advantages.
Barriers fall as private investors, consumers, and professionals seize opportunities once locked behind institutional walls.
Institutions lead with programmable assets, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and decentralised finance, forging the new architecture of global capital.
Our Services
Our small but global consultancy network and general financial services and analysis group is composed of dedicated, versatile teams — vessels crewed by proven navigators.
We operate in complex and often challenging environments, navigating diverging interests, strenuous timelines, corporate and project restructurings, adverse media, and rare opportunities.
Risk is ever-present;
it simply needs to be understood, structured, and priced.
Why Us?
We advise clients in navigating complex transactions, charting a clear course through a select group of industry sectors.
We do not assume; we understand, we know, we solve, we communicate, we navigate.
We build bridges between senior management, owners, and counterparts, enabling them to pursue their objectives with precision and purpose.
Digitised solutions underpin every stage of the journey, ensuring speed, clarity, and seamless execution.
Biographies
Dr. Chris Kacher
Dr Christopher Kacher has been engaged in the digitisation of finance through blockchain technology since early 2013, when he first acquired Bitcoin while it was trading at approximately $10.
He participated in early discussions with Vitalik Buterin and others in 2013, prior to the public launch of Ethereum, acquiring Ethereum at an average cost of $0.68 per ETH. Formerly the youngest trader and Head of Fundamental and Technical Stock Market Research at William O’Neil & Co., Inc., Dr Kacher consistently outperformed a group of elite, hand-selected traders. He is recognised as a techno-fundamental investor, having achieved a KPMG-verified return of +18,241% between January 1996 and December 2002, covering both bull and bear markets.
Dr Kacher applies similar strategies in the cryptocurrency markets, drawing upon over 25 years of stock market trading experience to deliver significant returns even during prolonged downturns. He is the author of numerous works, including William O’Neil’s Model Book of Stocks (1998) and four books published through Wiley & Sons, including the bestseller How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market (2010), which has been translated into five languages.
He has been featured across a range of media, including Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Dow Jones, Forbes, and MarketWatch, and was interviewed in Kevin Marder’s Conversations With Top Traders (2000), among other publications. Dr Kacher currently publishes articles on various platforms, including Medium, Crypto Reports on www.selfishinvesting.com, and CryptoEvolutions™ on www.CFI.co.
He earned his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995. During his doctoral research, he co-created Element 110 on the Periodic Table and confirmed the existence of Element 106, later named Seaborgium after his Nobel Laureate thesis advisor, Dr Glenn Seaborg — creator of plutonium and nine additional elements.
A former concert pianist and contemporary composer, Dr Kacher has seen two of his musical works chart on iTunes at positions 28 and 124, respectively. He is a Co-Founder and Management Board Member of Hanse Digital Access OÜ.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Mag. Axel Ludwig Jacob
Mag. Axel Jacob is a private equity investor, investment banker, and asset developer, specialising in project origination, structured finance, and asset management, with over 30 years of industry expertise.
He has served on various boards for projects and clients and was also a partner in a pioneering NetSuite-native field service management software developer. Between 2008 and 2014, he was a Co-Founder and Principal at Aorta Capital Ltd., a London-based global investment banking advisory boutique. His strong focus on restructurings, forensic analysis, refinancings, hostile takeovers, and structured finance solutions for portfolio managers has remained central to his practice.
Previously, Mr Jacob served nearly five years as Vice President at Global Capital Finance GmbH, a German-American boutique investment bank spun off from Credit Suisse First Boston. There, he was primarily responsible for corporate finance across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as global structured finance transactions in renewable energy, real estate, infrastructure, and transportation, advising on and closing €3.2 billion in project transaction volume.
Prior to that, he was a Principal at Bank of America in Frankfurt, covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His team successfully closed USD 1.35 billion in six leveraged leases for Deutsche Post AG and over USD 980 million in financings for German municipal energy clients with U.S. investors. He had previously joined from Babcock & Brown, where he provided transaction services on large-ticket structured finance transactions across energy infrastructure and real estate, exceeding USD 2 billion.
Between 1997 and March 1999, Mr Jacob worked as a Senior Account Manager within the structured finance team at ING Barings, based in Vienna, with frequent assignments in Russia and the CIS.
His banking career began in 1991, in parallel with his academic studies, through a junior management trainee programme at Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (now part of UniCredit) in Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich. In 1993/94, he also served for one year as an Assistant Product Manager for global SWIFT and fixed income banking systems at Management Data in Vienna.
Mr Jacob holds undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and a master’s degree from the Vienna School of Economics (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), where he majored in Banking, International Business and Foreign Trade, Quantitative Economics, and Controlling. Prior to his academic career, he served in the German Luftwaffe.
He writes regularly on financial markets, trade, geopolitics, and the defence of freedom on his Substack and on Twitter under @balticsnotiger. He also appears on the Information Warfare Initiative YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@infowarfarechannel).
Born in Germany, Mr Jacob is fluent in English, Frisian, and German, and has command of French, with literacy in Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, and Russian. He is currently learning Ukrainian.
He is a Co-Founder and Management Board Member of Hanse Digital Access OÜ.
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