
Our payments sector expertise and deep understanding of new technologies enable us to empower our clients with next generation payment solutions.
Tamanoir Group | Global Leaders in advanced payment solutions
The Tamanoir Group Team

Jérome Clé
Founder Tamanoir Group
Jerome is a serial entrepreneur who has spent the majority of his career in the payments industry and technology. Tamanoir Group brings together his vision of how to empower businesses and consumers globally with better payment methods. Jerome has a successful track in the payment industry where his innovative approach to problem-solving and implementing new technologies has always enabled a leadership position within the industry. Although based in London, Jerome divides his time between Dubai, the UK and Asia.

Manuel Batista
Executive Management and Strategic Relationship
Manuel Batista is an entrepreneur, dream chaser and the CEO of Essential Inc. and MP11, CEO of Socratescoin, the coin of knowledge and Partner of Nauka, the United world university and CO-Founder of XChange World and CEO of his Real Estate company Realthy.
Manuel has always been a big dreamer and tried to build companies early on while being a professional badminton athlete and now full time entrepreneur.
Today Manuel is working in different niches from online business (IM – affiliate marketing – CPA), e-commerce, network marketing, social media marketing and courses in various languages.

Giovanni Crivelli
Travel & Accomodation Specialist
Giovanni is a Travel agency specialist with a broad experience in individual Business Traveler, Luxury tailormade Tourist arrangements, Concierge Service, as well as Private Jet Brokering Services/Responsible of the internal travel department.
Opening of travel agencies, marketing and development of the Concierge service, Private Jet brokerage for the Camper Nicholson Yacht Brokerage Group for VIP’s

Jorge Sebastião, CISSP
Partner & Chief Technology Officer
A seasoned CEO, CTO, CISO, Advisor and International speaker, with experience in Blockchain, DeFi, Asset Tokenization, Cyber Security, AI, IoT, 5G, Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Bigdata, & Managed Services. Jorge is a professional advisor in several innovative start-ups using disruptive technologies with focus on generating business value and enabling sustainability. He created the powerful framework A6 of security: Assess, Assess, Apply, Administer, Awareness & Agility. Jorge is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Author of Book “La Face Cachée du Crédit” Editions Quebec Or

Thibault Verbiest
Partner & Legal Counsel
Thibault Verbiest, an attorney in Paris and Brussels since 1993, is a partner with Metalaw, where he heads the department dedicated to fintech, digital banking and crypto finance. He is the co-author of several books, including the first book on blockchain in French. He acts as an expert with the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum and the World Bank.
Thibault is also an entrepreneur, as he co-founded Copyright Coins and Parabolic Digital. In 2020, he became chairman of the IOUR Foundation, a public utility foundation aimed at promoting the adoption of a new internet, merging TCP/IP and blockchain.

Stephane Marcuzzo
Tamanoir VC / Asset management Manager
Experienced Corporate Manager & Independent Business Owner with a demonstrated history of working in financial services and Retail & Payment Processing industries. Skilled in Project Management, Wealth Management and Retail Business. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.
20 years of experience in the financial industry and its regulatory environment. Expertise in Systematic/Algorithmic Trading, Risk Management and Project Management. Started career as a proprietary futures trader. Created, structured & managed one Hedge Fund and two Managed Account platforms. Proven track record in generating superior risk-adjusted returns.
5 years of experience in the Credit Card processing/E-Commerce industry, payment gateways operations and Fraud & Chargeback management.
5 years in the retail industry, as Financial & Operational Manager at IKEA Switzerland.

Elliot C. Willcox
Senior Brand & Communication Advisor
Elliot’s career spans 40 years in Design, Branding and Communication with 500+ branding mandates completed. Multi-sector exposure of which 15 years were spent working for financial clients. Elliot specializes in Investor communications and fundraising packaging for funds, technology start-ups, etc.
Elliot has developed a leading expertise working as Creative Director for Industry Rockstar, a US-based Business Mentoring company operating globally.
Fluent in 4 languages and benefitting from an international and multi-cultural experience, he has lived and worked and run businesses in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Spain.