About Joaquin Ayuso de Paul

Joaquin Ayuso de Paul, graduated from ICAI, Spain, with a CS degree, collaborated with their Technology Research department for the last of those 2 years. After this research adventure in distributed calculations, he founded the most prominent Social Network in Spain, Tuenti.com. The challenge was to beat the already installed social networks MySpace, Hi5, and Facebook. The goal was to create a different place for people with stronger privacy and reliability, the fastest service, and the simplest. Glass was the next adventure, where he was not only helping with his experience at Tuenti and his background but also with investment made since their very first round. Later, he started a new company, Kuapay, Inc., with some of the engineers that helped on the creation of Tuenti.com in its early stages. Kuapay is a mobile payment system unlike any seen before. He launched the first global bank account in the digital banking world with Denizen and BBVA—a digital-only banking application for expats between Europe and the US. Specialties: Computer Engineer specialized in distributed calculations and programming. Data processing and business intelligence. Investor in small but reliable projects and a believer in spreading knowledge to the world without barriers. Joaquin Ayuso de Paul is the current Head of Nium Labs of Nium. Joaquin Ayuso de Paul attended Comillas Pontificial University. He currently leads the company’s expansion into embedded financial services for crypto, including crypto investment and crypto acceptance. These solutions enable customers to leverage the power of crypto with the industry’s first platform to combine the power of a trusted payment network with the decentralized and nimble crypto rails. Prior to joining Nium, Joaquin Ayuso de Paul founded several startups.  He is a frequent industry commentator on the emerging world of Web3. He holds a Computer Science degree at Instituto Católico de Artes e Industrias (ICAI) in Madrid.