About Us
Our industry leading team.
Yourdiamonds.com™
Yourdiamonds.com™
has gathered an exceptional team of digital technology and web3.0 developers, blockchain lawyers, digital marketing specialists, diamond industry veterans, IP lawyers, investment bankers and statisticians. All team members have equity in the success of the business and are focussed in executing the Founder’s vision.
Who
Board of Directors
Jim Fernandez
Non-Executive Chairman
New York
Her Highness Shaikha Dheya bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa
Non Executive Director
Manama, Bahrain
Tim Goodman
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
Sydney & New York
Philip Wood
Executive director, General Counsel & Company Secretary
Sydney
Tamara Gabay
Head of Technology Sales & Development
Sydney, Australia
Advisory Board, Decentralized Finance
The Board of yourdiamonds.comTM oversees the highest level of corporate governance and good standing.
“It’s not the strongest that survives, nor is it the fittest. It’s the one most adaptable to change.”
Tim Goodman
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
Sydney & New York
Tim Goodman founded the largest Fine Art and Jewellery auction enterprise in the Southern Hemisphere with revenues of $70million.
Tim was a perpetual innovator of web1 and web2 in the auction industry. In 1998 he was the first auctioneer in the world to sell a lot to an online bidder at a traditional fine art auction.
He was the founding Executive Chairman of Sotheby’s Australia Pty Ltd and founder of Bonhams & Goodman. He is a former Trustee of the Australian Museum Foundation. Tim is the Founder and largest shareholder of YourDiamonds.com™
Dr Adrian McCullagh
General Counsel – Specialist, Blockchain Law
Brisbane, Australia
Sven Meyer
Chief Technology Officer
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Sven Meyer holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science by Research & Business Administration / Consumer Psychology from Hamburg University, Germany and has been a researcher at King’s College London as well as the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
He has 20+ years’ experience in Digital Technology and Strategic Business Consulting for large enterprises as well as start-ups across Europe, USA, and Australia. Sven continues to work withthe latest, cutting-edge technology: IoT, Data Science, Machine Learning (“AI”), and distributed systems.
Since early 2017 he has been fully committed to Blockchain technology and how to apply it best to support existing and new business models.
Sven has been working as an advisor and CTO for multiple start-ups in Blockchain space providing guidance on technology and product definition. During this time, he has also developed and deployed smart contracts for various platforms securing over USD$100 million.
Erik A Jens
Director of Sales & Operations
New York
A Fin-tech Advisor based in Amsterdam & New York. Erik was most recently CEO of ABN AMRO’s D & JC division where he managed a multi-billion-dollar loans portfolio, one of the largest diamond and Jewelry trade financing businesses in the world.
Tim Bos
Tokenomics Advisor
Melbourne, Australia
Tim has over 19 years’ experience working with start-ups and established enterprises with a focus on technology. He has held senior roles with Avanade Australia (a Microsoft and Accenture joint venture) as Program Manager, Associate Director at Barclays Capital, Project Manager at GE Capital, IT Infrastructure Manager at Atari – Melbourne House, and Principal Consultant at Software Spectrum.
Tim Bos also established his first start-up, bioWatch Australia in July 2004, with the purpose of building a software framework for tracking valuable assets around the globe. He sold the company to Procon MRM in the USA in 2008. Tim also co-founded Keaz in 2013. Keaz has developed a world leading platform for the purpose of sharing vehicles and assets globally.
Most recently, Tim co-founded ShareRing, a blockchain based company that’s focused on changing the landscape of the fragmented sharing economy.
Advisory Board – Financial Technology
Mark Hanna
Chairman Advisory Board
London
Mark began his career in R & D & diamond manufacturing at De Beers. He founded Tiffany’s vertically integrated, manufacturing business Laurelton, growing it to more than 3,000 employees in five countries as its Vice President.
Jon Inch
Chief Information Officer
London
Jon Inch has managed award winning digital transformation projects at global companies including Christie’s, one of the two largest and oldest fine art & jewelry auction houses in the world. Jon project manages all building of our new technology.
Jonathan Kendall
Senior Advisor
London
Jonathan is currently Executive Vice President of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) and a highly respected corporate advisor to the diamond industry.
He was engaged by De Beers as a senior executive, 2000 – 2020 and recently moved into an independent advisory role developing new businesses. Whilst at De Beers Jonathan developed and operated a range of businesses for the group across the diamond pipeline from rough sales to marketing/brands management to industry services and polished grading.
Richard Chetwade
Diamond Mining & General Industry Specialist, London
Richard worked as a mining specialist in the City of London engaged in senior executive roles at De Beers, Gem Diamonds and Harry Winston. He is a Non-executive Chairman of Namibian based Trustco Resources which owns the Meya Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone. Richard operates a Corporate Advisory to the diamond sector, including strategy, financing, ESG, sales, marketing and branding.
Dr Nick Fisher
Chief Data Scientist
Sydney
Dr. Nick Fisher, MSc, PhD, DSc, AStat, Pstat, is an Hon. Professor of Statistics at the University of Sydney and a former Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO. Nick is responsible for the R & D of the YourDiamonds fin-tech algorithms.
Carl Welsby
Brand Director + Head of Design
Sydney
Carl has over 20 years’ experience in professional design, Carl’s strengths lie in his unwavering pursuit of brand consistency, high design and the creation of effective user friendly UX and UI interfaces. Carl has a Bachelor of Business (Software Design) and Associate Diploma (Graphic Design).
Erik Jens
Financial Technology Consultant
New York
Russel Francis
Technology Partner
Perth
Louise Prior
Global Head Of Diamond Auction Receivables
London
Louise was most recently Executive Director of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and sat on the World Diamond Council’s Kimberley Process Task Force Board Committee, which engages with the working committees of the Kimberley Process, a UN-mandated forum created to eradicate conflict diamonds. Previously Louise was a senior executive at De Beers where she was Head of Communications and Client Services.
Nicki Ashton
Financial Consultant – Derivatives
Sydney
Nicki has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in superannuation / pension funds, investment managers, platforms and government entities. Previously, Nicki has performed Senior Executive roles at Change Investment Management, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank including extensive experience in trading client-based derivatives.
Aqdas Tatli
Head of India
Mumbai
Andrew Grunstein
Head of Digital Security
London
Andrew Grunstein is chief strategy officer for Kinetic Six, a cyber security, information and communications technology company founded by UK ex special forces.
He is a Middle East Advisor to Allied Nuclear Partners.
Advisory Board, Fancy Coloured Diamonds
Karen Lindley AM, FGAA, NCJV
Chairman Advisory Board, Coloured Diamonds
Sydney, Australia
Karen Lindley AM, is a qualified Gemmologist (1982) and registered NCJV valuer.
For more than 40 years Karen conducted a boutique business in the Sydney CBD operating as a bespoke jeweller and wholesale gemstone merchant prior to the recent sale of her business to a local third generation family jeweller.
Karen has been active in industry associations and has served, on the Board of the Jewellers Association of Australia, the Gemmological Association Committee and was a former Chair of the Australian Gem Industry Association. She has held several external private and Government Board positions. She received the Distinguished Service Award from the Jewellery Industry in 2020 and the Member Of The Order of Australia (AM) in the Queens Birthday Honours of 2021 for services to the jewellery Industry and social welfare initiatives.
John Chapman BSc (Physics)
Technical Consultant – Australian Pink Diamonds
Perth, Australia
John Chapman has a degree in Physics and has been active in the diamond industry for over 35 years from exploration to the grading of polished goods. He has spent much of that time as the Diamond Technology Manager at the Argyle diamond mine, where he conducted extensive scientific research on pink diamonds and developed instruments for sorting and grading them.
John founded the ‘Rough Diamond Review’ magazine where he worked as its Editor.
Most recently, John has been designing and manufacturing optical instruments for gemmologists.
He currently owns and operates the Delta Diamond Laboratory in Perth. DELTA specialises in the identification of the origin of pink and violet diamonds, especially those originally sourced from the Argyle mine.
Daniel Anania
Consultant – Administration & Logistics
Sydney, Australia
Daniel is the 3rd generation member of the Anania family to own and operate the Anania Family Jewellers business, established by his grandfather in Sydney in 1965. Daniel has diamond Jewellery running through in his DNA.
He manages the logistics for and administers the Pink Diamond Tender. Customer satisfaction has always been and continues to be Daniel’s primary focus.
Evolution
YourDiamonds.comTM is the brainchild of founder Tim Goodman. Tim has diamonds flowing through his veins. His family had been in the diamond business in Sydney, Australia since 1864. Tim established the largest fine art and jewelry auction enterprise in the Southern Hemisphere whilst owning and operating global brands including Bonhams & Goodman and Sotheby’s Australia under license. Since selling his auction houses, Tim has gathered a team of passionate diamond industry veterans, technology innovators, investment bankers, intellectual property lawyers and digital marketing legends to bring his vision to market.
Corporate
- Techstars / launchpool
- Alphabit Fund
- Her Highness Shaikha Dheya bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa
- Jim Fernandez, former Executive Vice President and COO at Tiffany & Co
- Australian Stock Exchange listed Roolife Limited
- Bahrain based investment bank and corporate advisory firm, Riyada Group
- Beijing based funds manager, China Equity Group
- Australian property investor Bill Moss of Macquarie Bank fame
- Private Saudi Arabia based investor, Dr. Ravish Tatli
Board of Directors
The Board of yourdiamonds.comTM oversees the highest level of corporate governance and good standing.
Advisory Board
“It’s not the strongest that survives, nor is it the fittest. It’s the one most adaptable to change.
We will lead change in the diamond market.
We have already built new apps, lifechanging for the diamond industry.
We are building a new financial system. We are unlocking the value of real assets in Decentralized Finance. Diamonds are just the beginning.
Likeminded innovative people and corporations are invited to come join us on this extraordinary journey and share the rewards.”
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