Diego Lijtmaer. Co-founder & CEO

Jose Garcia (Pepe). Co-founder & CTO

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Entrepreneur, tech executive and investor. Diego’s professional career spans start-ups, scale-ups and large global enterprises in a variety of leadership roles across different industries such as finance, consumer tech, e-commerce and web3. Following his MBA at Wharton, he started a career in finance as a FIG Investment Banker for UBS Bank in London, where he advised governments, banks and insurance companies during the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. More recently he was also a member of Just Eat’s executive team in the UK, where he led the business development and last mile logistics departments. Based on his success there, he co-founded and launched Bezos.ai, a venture-backed logistics platform for e-commerce. After three years he stepped back from his day-to-day role as co-CEO to focus fully on Web3.

Pepe has 17 years of experience building technology. He began his career working at Unico Inc., developing tech for the industrial automation sector where he first found his passion for engineering. After this, he embarked on entrepreneurial career, first founding and then exiting TecnoJAR, an industrial automation company to Regal Beloit Corp. Following this success, he co-founded Eprezto and Moveo Ventures to invest and develop technology that advances the financial industry in Latin America.

For the last 4 years he has focused on developing blockchain-based products and building technology for the financial industry. He holds a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Monterrey Tec and an MBA from EGADE Business School.

Before launching Rumi Finance, Diego co-founded Blue Swan, a Web3 Venture Studio. He is also a co-founder of the Decentral Art Pavillion, the first Web3-focussed digital art exhibition at the Venice Biennale art fair. He also does angel investments in Web3 and Fintech focus. Some of his investments include Unmapped Digital Mining, Altitude, and Simplefi. Diego is also an LP at Rally Cap VC.