Nicola Plain
Nicola Plain graduated from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) with a Master's degree in Business Innovation and obtained a CAIA Level II certificate a few years later. He worked for five years as a business engineer and project leader in the automotive industry with his small consulting company. Disillusioned by the resistance of large companies to change, he decided to work only in very agile and flexible environments in the future. On 01.02.2021 he joined Aktionariat AG, a company that takes advantage of the new Swiss DLT law to allow companies to create a marketplace for their shares on their own website.
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Since the 1st of February 2021 Switzerland has a DLT law that allows issuing ledger-based securities. Shares of private companies issued that way bear significant advantages over other forms of shares e.g. uncertificated securities. A transfer of such security tokens is a legally solid transaction and eliminates the need of a signed assignment document. Aktionariat has built a software solution around this law that allows private companies to create a market for their shares based solely on smart contracts, without intermediaries.