

Intelligent Trading Foundation (ITF) is no longer in a position to continue active development of our full suite of products. However, our products will remain online and available for our users as long as possible. See more information here.
Ben Lakoff is an entrepreneur and finance professional. He has developed strong global finance experience through 10 years of international assignments in the US, Brazil, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the award of his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification. He has broad and diverse experience across various finance roles including corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, equity markets, and banking. Ben is passionate about cryptocurrencies and been investing in blockchain-related startups, helping create Satang Pro, Blockchain Hub Prague, and Intelligent Trading Foundation (ITF).
Francesco holds a Computer Science and Engineering Master’s Degree from Università degli Studi di Bologna with a Master Thesis about Artificial Intelligence for clinical diagnosis systems. In 2011, he’s a consultant and developer of Business Intelligence applications, in 2013 full stack developer for a world leader automatic packaging machine design and manufacture company. In 2016 contributes to Open Data and pro bono consultancy while traveling South East Asia.
Tony is an entrepreneur and cryptocurrency trader. While attending Virginia Commonwealth University, he sold first company, 2 Guy’s Tuition Landscaping and started his second company, Boardgrab LLC, that sold over 1,000 used surfboards each month. Once he finished University, Tony traveled around the world while teaching himself how to trade cryptocurrencies. After traveling, he moved to Prague, Czech Republic full-time to get fully immersed in the Cryptocurrency Industry.
Barbora gathered experiences while working in a strategy team of a leading consultancy company and a data protection team of a technology giant. In her position for ITF, she is combining her analytical skills and crypto enthusiasm. She joined ITF after returning from a position in German market research company. Barbora is based in Prague, Czech Republic, but she spent a significant part of her studies in Germany and Switzerland.
Dave is an attorney with a wide range of clientele. Dave applies his unique background in finance, securities, intellectual property, and corporate law to further each client’s specific legal, business, and regulatory goals. Previous clients include cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, and dispensaries, industrial hemp companies, musicians, private equity firms, and music venues. Mr. Rodman specializes in the laws and regulations pertaining to cannabis, industrial hemp and cryptocurrency. Mr. Rodman is licensed to practice law in Colorado and Washington State and has advised clients all over the world.
Poramin is the founder and core developer of Zcoin (XZC), one of the top privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. He is also the CEO of Satang, a digital asset service provider business in Thailand. He is also the world’s first person to implement stealth addresses in QT-Wallets, improving cryptocurrency anonymity. He earned a master’s degree in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University where he wrote a paper on a proposed practical implementation of the Zerocoin protocol.
Tom Counsell is a serial entrepreneur from Purdue University with a background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and International Development. His first success was cofounding the largest social enterprise in Morocco in 2012 which currently employs over 3000 members. Since then, he created Noble Software Foundation, Incorporeal Ltd, Blockchain Hub Prague, and Intelligent Trading Foundation. Tom has also led software development operations for Agoda.com, OpenEntry, and Aztrana AG deploying world-class applications used by millions internationally. He now resides in Czech Republic continuing to apply deep tech and business acumen to software startups, and humanitarian projects.
Alex came from Computational Biology and Bioinformatics field and brings a wide range of AI/ML skills starting from a traditional statistics, regression and classification methods to Deep Neural Networks and Probabilistic Graphical Models. He holds a Computational Biology and Bioinformatics master’s degree from ETH Zurich and Computer Engineering master’s degree from University of Radio-electronics Minsk. Before entering the Computational Biology field, Alex worked for several software engineering companies and went through all steps of software engineering from being a tester, software engineer and finally a project manager of various web and mobile projects and CTO of the company. Currently Alex is living in Prague, Czech Republic.
Justin is responsible for bringing ITF’s vision to life through content creation. He is the lead writer for the Intelligent Trading Blog, Cryptocurrency 101 articles, and Ultimate Guides. Prior to joining the team, he taught at a private secondary school for 6 years, teaching English as a foreign language for Cambridge examination. Currently, Justin is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Edita worked in marketing teams of corporate and startup companies in the UK and Australia. She specialises in the social media marketing and is fluent in the key social media platforms, with an emphasis on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Reddit. She is now deploying her skills in creating data-driven solutions and strategising social media campaigns as a marketing intern with ITF.
Sebastian is a security risk analyst and has been involved in cryptocurrencies since 2011. He is the co-founder of Criton Group, a risk consulting firm with focus on Asia. Sebastian studied Mandarin at Xiamen University and holds a postgraduate degree from the University of Nottingham. His previous work experience includes advocacy for European firms when entering in the Chinese market. He is the primary liaison for the Chinese community and investors.
Peter is an independent advisor to the Intelligent Trading team. He has spent the past seven years in investments working for the Asset Management divisions of JPMorgan and Wells Fargo. Peter’s trading experience spans all asset classes and he has deep knowledge of fundamental and technical analysis and modelling. Peter is addicted to trading cryptos and is passionate about this project because he sees great value in the resource that ITF will be for all crypto investors, from the first time buyer to professional traders.
Due to the unknown ramifications of the US regulatory environment for licensed individuals, Peter has chosen to remain anonymous at this time.
Ben Lakoff is an entrepreneur and finance professional. He has developed strong global finance experience through 10 years of international assignments in the US, Brazil, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the award of his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification. He has broad and diverse experience across various finance roles including corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, equity markets, and banking. Ben is passionate about cryptocurrencies and been investing in blockchain-related startups, helping create Satang Pro, Blockchain Hub Prague, and Intelligent Trading Foundation (ITF).
Tom Counsell is a serial entrepreneur from Purdue University with a background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and International Development. His first success was cofounding the largest social enterprise in Morocco in 2012 which currently employs over 3000 members. Since then, he created Noble Software Foundation, Incorporeal Ltd, Blockchain Hub Prague, and Intelligent Trading Foundation. Tom has also led software development operations for Agoda.com, OpenEntry, and Aztrana AG deploying world-class applications used by millions internationally. He now resides in Czech Republic continuing to apply deep tech and business acumen to software startups, and humanitarian projects.
Francesco holds a Computer Science and Engineering Master’s Degree from Università degli Studi di Bologna with a Master Thesis about Artificial Intelligence for clinical diagnosis systems. In 2011, he’s a consultant and developer of Business Intelligence applications, in 2013 full stack developer for a world leader automatic packaging machine design and manufacture company. In 2016 contributes to Open Data and pro bono consultancy while traveling South East Asia.
Alex came from Computational Biology and Bioinformatics field and brings a wide range of AI/ML skills starting from a traditional statistics, regression and classification methods to Deep Neural Networks and Probabilistic Graphical Models. He holds a Computational Biology and Bioinformatics master’s degree from ETH Zurich and Computer Engineering master’s degree from University of Radio-electronics Minsk. Before entering the Computational Biology field, Alex worked for several software engineering companies and went through all steps of software engineering from being a tester, software engineer and finally a project manager of various web and mobile projects and CTO of the company. Currently Alex is living in Prague, Czech Republic.
Tony is an entrepreneur and cryptocurrency trader. While attending Virginia Commonwealth University, he sold first company, 2 Guy’s Tuition Landscaping and started his second company, Boardgrab LLC, that sold over 1,000 used surfboards each month. Once he finished University, Tony traveled around the world while teaching himself how to trade cryptocurrencies. After traveling, he moved to Prague, Czech Republic full-time to get fully immersed in the Cryptocurrency Industry.
Justin is responsible for bringing ITF’s vision to life through content creation. He is the lead writer for the Intelligent Trading Blog, Cryptocurrency 101 articles, and Ultimate Guides. Prior to joining the team, he taught at a private secondary school for 6 years, teaching English as a foreign language for Cambridge examination. Currently, Justin is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Barbora gathered experiences while working in a strategy team of a leading consultancy company and a data protection team of a technology giant. In her position for ITF, she is combining her analytical skills and crypto enthusiasm. She joined ITF after returning from a position in German market research company. Barbora is based in Prague, Czech Republic, but she spent a significant part of her studies in Germany and Switzerland.
Edita worked in marketing teams of corporate and startup companies in the UK and Australia. She specialises in the social media marketing and is fluent in the key social media platforms, with an emphasis on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Reddit. She is now deploying her skills in creating data-driven solutions and strategising social media campaigns as a marketing intern with ITF.
Dave is an attorney with a wide range of clientele. Dave applies his unique background in finance, securities, intellectual property, and corporate law to further each client’s specific legal, business, and regulatory goals. Previous clients include cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, and dispensaries, industrial hemp companies, musicians, private equity firms, and music venues. Mr. Rodman specializes in the laws and regulations pertaining to cannabis, industrial hemp and cryptocurrency. Mr. Rodman is licensed to practice law in Colorado and Washington State and has advised clients all over the world.
Sebastian is a security risk analyst and has been involved in cryptocurrencies since 2011. He is the co-founder of Criton Group, a risk consulting firm with focus on Asia. Sebastian studied Mandarin at Xiamen University and holds a postgraduate degree from the University of Nottingham. His previous work experience includes advocacy for European firms when entering in the Chinese market. He is the primary liaison for the Chinese community and investors.
Poramin is the founder and core developer of Zcoin (XZC), one of the top privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. He is also the CEO of Satang, a digital asset service provider business in Thailand. He is also the world’s first person to implement stealth addresses in QT-Wallets, improving cryptocurrency anonymity. He earned a master’s degree in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University where he wrote a paper on a proposed practical implementation of the Zerocoin protocol.
Peter is an independent advisor to the Intelligent Trading team. He has spent the past seven years in investments working for the Asset Management divisions of JPMorgan and Wells Fargo. Peter’s trading experience spans all asset classes and he has deep knowledge of fundamental and technical analysis and modelling. Peter is addicted to trading cryptos and is passionate about this project because he sees great value in the resource that ITF will be for all crypto investors, from the first time buyer to professional traders.
Due to the unknown ramifications of the US regulatory environment for licensed individuals, Peter has chosen to remain anonymous at this time.
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