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Areiel Wolanow
Areiel Wolanow is the managing director of Finserv Experts. He is an experienced business leader with over 25 years of experience in business transformation solutioning, sales, and execution. He served as one of IBM’s key thought leaders in blockchain, machine learning, and financial inclusion. Areiel has deep experience leading large, globally distributed teams; he has led programs of over 100 people through the full delivery life cycle, and has managed budgets in the tens of millions of dollars.
In addition to his delivery experience, Areiel also serves as a senior advisor on blockchain, machine learning, and technology adoption; he has worked with central banks and financial regulators around the world, and is currently serving as the insurance industry advisor for the UK Parliament’s working group on blockchain.
Recent Posts
Invitation: How AI and machine learning are driving financial inclusion around the world.
One of the biggest concerns about the emerging commercial viability of AI is the possibility that a huge number of people might lose their jobs to software and robots that can do those jobs better and/or cheaper. This is a valid…
Understanding the Potential of Mechanism Design
Understanding potential of mechanism design People have been trying to model how decisions get made for a long time. In western history, the earliest person we know of to try and model decision making was Aristotle in his studies on…
Using distributed ledgers to implement an entirely new, decentralized business model for the London insurance market
As part of its overall efforts to modernize the London insurance market and make it easier to do business with, in 2017 the market asked a simple question: Could a new, more effective, significantly lower cost operating model be created…
Critical Success Factors for Blockchain/DLT Startups
In the past three or four weeks I have had no less than six separate requests to offer advice on the viability of various blockchain startups or ICO’s. After thinking about it a bit, I wrote the following article on…
Expert Opinion: Display and Programmatic Advertising featuring Areiel Wolanow
Areiel is featured on MarTechExec, offering a view on how blockchain is poised to disrupt current digital marketing best practice. This is excerpted from a full guide on digital marketing. Check out the article here
Advising law enforcement on cryptocurrency cybercrime
This afternoon, I had the singular opportunity to work with Ed Heath and the UK’s Southwest Regional Cyber Cyber Crime Unit. Working together, we explored ways in which the RCCU could expand their coverage to include crimes committed with cryptocurrency. This was…
Disintermediation, and the role of humans in providing assurance
Published in Global Accountant, 22 August 2017 Read article here
How to become a recognized expert in your chosen field — a detailed, concrete, and step-by-step guide.
A few people have asked me how to go about establishing themselves as recognized thought leaders in their respective fields. I make no particular claims to expertise in this regard, but it is something I have thought about consciously while trying…
Highlights from the G20
In 2015, I had the opportunity to address the G20 at their SME Finance Forum. I spoke on the potential of machine learning to accelerate financial inclusion. It was an impressive group of speakers, and being invited to take…
Mobile devices and unintended segmentation bias
Most of my articles, in fact most of my ideas in general, come from something I read that keeps pinging my consciousness for several days after first reading it, and today’s article is no exception. The article in this case is…