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Arno Pernthaler

Co-founder at DEC Institute

About me

Arno is a Corporate Venturing expert in the space of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Digital Assets and Web3. Arno has co-founded the DEC Institute together with leading academic institutions, which has launched the international charter-holder programs CBA®️ and CDAA®️ for professionals in the blockchain space.



From 2019-2022 Arno was heading the corporate development of Atomyze, a USD 30 mio. industry-backed digital marketplace for tokenization and trading of commodities on blockchain technology. Before that, he worked as a corporate development manager for Swisscom Blockchain AG. Arno started his career in Digital Strategy & Consulting at Monitor Deloitte and was professionalizing his blockchain know-how working for the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab in Dublin in 2017.



Disruptive Technologies and their potential for business model innovations and inclusion of under-serviced countries are the focus and drive of Arno's research and professional commitment.