Malik El Bay

The Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)  is a nationally recognised university. It is offering part-time Bachelor and Master’s degrees and continuing education programmes. The University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR) is a practice-oriented institution for study and research.
https://www.ffhs.ch/en/ and https://www.fhgr.ch/en/

> Created the Digital Businesses specialization for Bachelor students at FFHS
> Developing and teaching the CAS Blockchain at FFHS
> Holding Blockchain Lecture at the EMBA Digital Transformation at FHGR 

Dezentrum is an independent Think- and Do-Tank based in Zurich, enabling a digital transformation that serves society. Dezentrum is doing research, advisory an initiating daring  experiments, always having society at the center.
www.dezentrum.ch

Shaping the think tanks' operations, cashflow management, organizational development, acquiring and setting up projects, researching and presenting topics, building partnerships and working on pioneer projects.

> Partner and Chairman of the Executive Board
> Ting - Universal basic income as digital product
> Desk im Dorf - Co-working Plattform for rural areas
> no1s1 - A house owned and managed by itself.

Encointer is a non-profit association based in Zurich with the aim to create an equals opportunity monetary system. To achieve this, Encointer is developing a blockchain based platform to launch local community currencies. With LEU the pioneer community currency was launched in Zurich in Mai 2022. In the meantime more community currencies in Dar e Salaam and Green Bay were created using the Encointer system.
https://encointer.org/

Instead of banks, the community creates the money as a step towards a Trickle-up economic system. I am in charge for operations, product and organizational development. 

> Talk at Blockchain conference in Kenya
> Article in largest newspaper in Zurich, Interview with local newspaper
> Zurich based pioneer community

modum.io is creating a trusted digital ecosystems for sensitive goods. To achieve this modum.io is digitalizing complete supply chains in the pharmaceutical industry. It offers a system using IoT, Machine Learning and Blockchain to connect the physical to the digital world. modum.io was exited to Silicon Valley based Supply Chain Tech company Roambee and rebranding to Trust Square.
https://www.modum.io/news

In my role as co-founder and CEO I developed and executed the strategy. Coordination of a diverse tech-team. Setting up a customer facing product organization. Sales and marketing activities to find pilot customers and convert these into paying customers. Business development, cash planning, recruiting, market research, pitching, team building, negotiations: Classical Startup CEO. Handed over my role after raising 13,5 million USD with a successful token sale.

> Winner Venture Kick I & II
> Winner Kickstart Accelerator
> Successful Token Sale 

Flatastic helps you organize the most common tasks at Home. Saving you time and energy. More than 1'000'000 registered users are benefitting from a suite of practical tools, including a shopping list, expense tracker, and to-do list, along with seamless access to third-party on-demand services.
www.flatastic-app.com 

Bootstrapped startup. Developing the global strategy, coordinating our small team and communicating the goals to all stakeholders. Strategic management, business development, recruiting, customer development, cashflow management.

We already won several competitions and were invited to pitch in Silicon Valley and Tokyo. Flatastic was featured in every major newspaper in Germany and Switzerland.

> Winner Venture Kick Stage I & II 
> Runner-up Innovation Weekend Berlin
> Part of Blackbox Connect 13

Vetri is a non-profit foundation developing blockchain based platform to safeguard and exchange personal data. The end user owns and controls his personal data and gets a remunerated for sharing it. 

vetri.global

Advising Vetri to navigate their token sale: Reviewing the white paper, token model, setting up the marketing strategy, coordinating with external experts. Additionally advising around the topics of user experience, growth hacking and strategic marketing.

Startup as an Agency.
From brainstorming to deployment: With our startup experience we come up with new ideas and are super fast in prototyping these solutions into scalable products. We believe that quick small steps into the right direction will turn into big, great products.

Business development, project management, product management, consulting and backend software development.  

> IP Research project for the Max Planck Institute and ETH Zurich
> Online game for Bovington Tank Museum and World of Tanks
> Mobile apps for wg-suche.de (ImmoScout24)

The Fit Analytics Size Advisor helps your customers find the right clothing size. Fit Analytics was exited for 124 million USD to Snap Inc. in 2021.

During my time at UPcload I developed the scale system by conducting experiments and applying effective modeling approaches. Thereby I set up the fit prediction project together with the HTW university and a corporate partner. Developing the concept for flexible database (MongoDB) and improving the usability of the widgets.

DAO Suisse is an association with the purpose of enabling DAOs leveraging the Swiss culture of participation. A DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization, a type of bottom-up entity structure with no central authority. DAO Suisse fosters innovation and knowledge transfer between industry and academia to advance DAO technology for the public. It represents DAO stakeholders and advocate for clear regulations in Switzerland to protect DAO founders and participants. 

https://www.daosuisse.com/

The alumni of the ETH Entrepreneur Club foster entrepreneurship in Switzerland and want to make Zurich the tech startup epicenter of Europe. We represent a vibrant, international platform for entrepreneurs and unleash the business potential of ETH research.

My role is to support students running the Entrepreneur Club and help them with topics like, business development, accounting and team building.  

The Entrepreneur Club is one of biggest student-driven entrepreneurial clubs in Europe, bringing entrepreneurial-minded people together and fostering entrepreneurship.

www.entrepreneur-club.org

In my term of office we launched the new format 'Meet the founder of X' and the very first 'Hackathon' in Zurich. Meanwhile HackZurich is it’s own brand and has grown to the largest Hackathon in Europe with more than 500 hackers. We organized the biggest Startup Speed Dating event in Zurich: From over 300 applications we chose 40 startups and 100 candidates to speed date in an informal setting. Here you can find some impressions.