Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, HODL Group
Maurice Mureau is the CEO & Co-Founder of the HODL Group, a blockchain & crypto house of both builders and investors. The group's roots date back to 2012 - just c. 4 years post the pivotal Bitcoin white paper that was written in the fire of the GFC in 2008.
The HODL Group has a number of different arms including:
Market Making (over +$500M / month on Binance), Venture Funds (returning +7.75x in the last bull market), DEFI & Financing Arm working with next-gen NFTs that have real world utility (e.g. Rembrandt's Night watch in partnership with the Rembrandt Foundation) as well as staking-yield plays, an internal incubation & venture program (HODL Ventures), a next- gen HFT engine (Growity) as well as one DAO to bring it all together.
One of the core unique aspects of The HODL Group in regards to our crypto funds & structure is no leverage & no shorting, this is central part to our dna as architects & advocates first & foremost in the space, then investors afterwards. We've continued to see the costs of leverage & groups putting speculation ahead of being builders & better custodians of the space.
Maurice cut his teeth in traditional finance and combines this with knowledge, passion & belief that blockchain & crypto are here to stay.
Maurice started his journey in finance in 1995 at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. A few years later, he continued his journey as an asset manager for AFS Capital Management & Keijser Capital where he provided private customers with investment advice on their investment strategy.
After 14 years of managing private portfolios, Maurice started in London at Merit Capital where he managed mutual funds with a total AUM of $200+ mln. His biggest fund received a 5- stars rating at Morningstar.
Since 2020 he made the switch to the blockchain & crypto world where he combines his expertise in wealth management with his passion for decentralization, inclusion & long- overdue evolution of the finance space. He structured the funds through a traditional bottom-up strategy which is optimized by deployment of in-house developed algorithmic trading bots & defi proprietary tech.
In 2021 his funds became the best-performing cryptocurrency funds of The Netherlands & this year Hodl is expanding to the Europe, Middle-East & Asia.