Advisory Board

Michael Parsons, FCA

Michael Parsons, FCA runs Bitcoin Bytes and is a qualified entrepreneurial Chartered Accountant (FCA) with over 25 years experience in the banking industry; commercially-minded with both internet and bank startup experience.
 
He is Banking Management Consultant for two of the “Big Four”. (KPMG in Moscow & PwC in London.)
 
Michael is a former senior executive with Emirates Bank (Dubai) and Moscow Narodny Bank (London).
 
He is a Bitcoin presenter (Barclays), educator, and contributor to Bitcoin Magazine and other publications. Read ECB: “Roots Of Bitcoin Can Be Found In The Austrian School Of Economics”.
 
Michael is Joint Managing Director at Mercantile Finance & Guarantee Corporation Limited. He was Principal at Imaginal Technologies; Director at Phoenix psa Ltd — Cape Town; Senior Manager — Banking at KPMG, Moscow; Director & Principal Consultant — Banking Services to the former Soviet Union at Chartwell International Ltd — St James, London; Chief Financial Officer at Moscow Narodny Bank Limited; Senior Bank Management Consultant at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC); and Chief Accountant, Banker, and Senior Executive at Emirates Bank NBD, Dubai (formerly UBME).
 
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