- Professor Agmon is a globally recognized researcher in the
field of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and has authored several
research papers on the role of blockchain technology and innovative
protocols in the world of finance.
- Currently, Professor Agmon is a Professor of Finance (Emeritus)
at the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv
University and Visiting Professor of Finance at the
University of Gothenburg
(Sweden). He graduated with a
Ph.D. in Finance from the University of
Chicago and has held visiting appointments at MIT, and the University of
Southern California.
- Professor Agmon has served as a director on the Boards of
several companies both in the financial and industrial sectors in
Israel, including one of the
country's largest insurers and has provided financial consulting
services to leading companies in Israel, the U.S. and the EU.
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 9, 2021 /CNW/ - Wellfield Technologies
Inc. (TSXV: WFLD) (the "Company" or
"Wellfield"), is pleased to announce that it has named
Tamir Agmon, a renowned professor,
researcher and global financial consultant, as the second member of
the Company's advisory board. This follows the appointment of
Global Payments and Fintech Leader William
Keliehor, as announced on December 3,
2021.
Management Commentary
Levy Cohen, CEO of Wellfield commented, "One of the
most common ways that technology companies fail is by focusing only
on developing great underlying technology without building a path
to real-world application and adoption. Tamir's deep experience and
ongoing research on the evolving decentralized financial market and
trading protocols, as well as his expertise in the venture capital
world, have been critical in focusing our team on developing
practical solutions – based on great tech – that are necessary to
unlock the power of DeFi. As we look forward to launching our
Seamless protocols in 2022 and beyond, Tamir's continued expertise
will help ensure that Wellfield delivers strong, value adding
blockchain solutions for financial industry participants."
Tamir Agmon
Tamir Agmon is one of the
founding partners of Seamless Logic Software, and is actively
engaged in research regarding decentralized trading and the
decentralized financial market. Currently, his research is focused
on the applications of financial economics in the DeFi ecosystem.
His recent research (to be published soon) considers the conceptual
basis of Bitcoin in a portfolio of growth capital securities with
different risk profiles. Professor Agmon is one of the leaders of
an EU research project under The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
(the EU's reference programme for doctoral education and
postdoctoral training), called "TRUST – Digital Turn in Europe
Strengthening Relational Reliance through Technology", a
multi-country project that launched in 2021 and is set to continue
for four years.
Professor Agmon is a Professor of Finance (Emeritus) at the
Collier School of Management, Tel Aviv
University, Israel, and
Visiting Professor of Finance at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), where in 2020 he was designated
Honorary Doctor of Economics. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Finance
from the University of Chicago and has
held visiting appointments at MIT, and
the University of Southern
California.
Professor Agmon has had a long career in financial consulting in
Israel, the U.S., and Europe. He was the founder and the Managing
Director of Clali & Associates, an investment banking company
(jointly with Edmond de Rothschild
and Investec Group). He has also served as a director on the Boards
of a number of companies both in the financial and industrial
sectors in Israel, including one
of the country's largest insurers.
Professor Agmon has been published in leading professional
journals in finance and economics such as the Journal of Finance,
the Journal of Business, the Journal of International Business
Studies, The European Economic Review and International Journal of
Technoentrepreneurship. His most recent paper was published at the
European International Journal of Management in 2021. Professor
Agmon has also published a number of books. His most recent book is
titled, Venture Capital and the Inventive Process, (with
Stefan Sjogren), published in
2016.
Professor Agmon has been deeply involved in the Israeli venture
capital industry since its inception, serving both research and
consultative functions.
Seamless co-founders Tamir Agmon
and Levy Cohen, have published several papers together
including:
- The New Distributed Digital Technology, World Trade. and
MNEs: Another Step in the Inventive Process, forthcoming in
European International Journal of Management.
- The Economic Framework and Applications of Blockchain
(Distributed Ledger) Technology, forthcoming in the book Legal
Technology Transformation in Practice, Andrea Caligiuti, ed. The
University of Macerata, Italy.
- Barter Trade and Reallocation System and the New Blockchain
(Distributed Ledger) Technology, SSRN, November, 2018.
While with Seamless, Professor Agmon also published:
- Employing Decentralized Trading Protocols (P2P) to Optimize
Assets Allocation, SSRN, September 2020.
About Wellfield Technologies
Wellfield is focused on unlocking the power of decentralized
finance (DeFi) by building open and accessible decentralized
protocols and also blockchain based consumer products. Seamless -
the Company's protocol layer brand - focuses on solutions that
enhance and optimize liquidity in the Ethereum ecosystem, make
Bitcoin compatible with DeFi, and enable decentralized cross
blockchain exchange. MoneyClip - Wellfield's application layer
brand - is powered by DeFi to enhance everyday financial products
and make money work for the way people live.
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