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Lars Seier Christensen

Lars Christensen is a Danish businessman, entrepreneur, and investor whoco-founded what was to become Saxo Bank, a financial multi-asset trading and investment platform and the founder and CEO of Concordium.

After 20 years as co-CEO of Saxo Bank, he stepped down and foundedSeier Capitalto focus on investments in blockchain projects, including most notably the foundational blockchain protocol,Concordium. As the CEO of Concordium, Lars oversees the company’s development to become the first project to have an innovative user identity layer built-in at the protocol level. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Concordium utilizes smart contracts and the cryptographic concept of zero-knowledge proofs, wherein users can verify that something is true without physically seeing the evidence.

Lars Christensen’s passion for the restaurant business drove him to own several gourmet restaurants, most notably Denmark’s firstthree Michelin star restaurants, Geranium, the hi-tech restaurant Alchemist, and the iconic Cafe Dan Turell in Copenhagen.

Mr. Christensen has a very wide range of interests and activities, ranging from philosophy and politics over a gourmet, fine wine, and art to sports and charity, and is an avid commentator on political, social, and business affairs. He is a member of TheMont Pelerin Societyand supports various classic liberal and libertarian organisations and causes.

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