Giovanni
Everduin.

Giovanni Everduin - known as Gio - is a Harvard Business School alumnus (GMP21) and senior executive with over 20 years of experience across 10 countries spanning Europe, North America, Central America, and the Middle East.

He currently serves as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at a regulated financial institution in Dubai, where he co-founded an independent Corporate VC and Innovation Lab - CBIx - exploring AI, tokenized assets, Web3, gaming, and next-generation banking infrastructure. He sits on the board of Zypl, a fast-growing pre-Series A synthetic data and AI startup, the Advisory Board of Luna PR - a leading global PR and marketing agency for Web3, fintech, and AI - and the Steering Board of Tumar, a national innovation fund between The World Bank and the Government of Kazakhstan.

Earlier in his career, he led large-scale transformation and outsourcing programs at Accenture and served as Chief People Officer at an award-winning subsidiary (documented in an HBS case study) of a leading UAE banking group. He holds deep expertise in institutional innovation, AI governance, and the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized systems.

His current employer has been recognized by Forbes on their Best Banks list. Giovanni has been featured in press and media across the Middle East, Central Asia, and global fintech channels.

Gio Everduin is one of a very small number of people who genuinely operates in both TradFi and Web3 - not as a tourist, not as a conference guest, but as someone who builds in both directions simultaneously.

By day, he runs strategy, innovation, and ventures at a regulated bank in Dubai. He co-founded CBIx because he got tired of writing strategy decks that sat in folders. He sits on risk committees and scrolls Discord servers. He writes investment theses and scans on-chain data.

He is a film producer (SHE - 8 international awards), NFT collector, former MC and radio show host, sneakerhead, and father. The range is real. The range is the brand.

Harvard Business School taught him frameworks. Twenty years across 10 countries taught him when to throw them away.