Item Banc Team

Henri Thompson- Johannesburg, South Africa Henri’s abilities range from investment consulting, conventional investment banking, including private debt and equity capital raising activities. Henri's talents include the identification of investors and forging working relationships with commercial and investment banks, high net worth individuals, as well as other venture capitalists. Henri has throughout his career pulled together expert financial teams to review existing and alternate capital structures and to analyse their benefits and costs under a variety of economic cycles and market conditions. His abilities are not limited to finance though; Henri has collected vast knowledge in project management, training and guidance on social responsibility programmes.

Virginia’s specialties include systems development for distributors, international counter-trade development, integration of barter at multiple levels of distribution, import and export; Jamaica, Canada, France, Argentina, wholesale distribution and logistics. Virginia founded Ruffin Trading Company, LLC in 2000 and for 17 years has been the managing partner, driven to build trade bridges into currency-challenged economies. She has tirelessly promoted reciprocal trade, counter trade, the wholesale distribution of building materials, the import and export of commodity hard goods and the integration of various levels of distribution in the barter industry. She has been piloting of the BHN (basic human need) project, technology related to Item Banc, integrating logistics and methods of doing business.

Anthony is currently a director at GCP Capital Pty Ltd T/A Cabbel & Co and has been actively involved in the restructuring and raising of capital for public companies with assets onshore and offshore for over 20 years. Mr. Short is a past president of the Western Australian Club and has been involved in numerous executive and board positions on ASX listed companies in the Mining, Oil and Gas Drilling and Agricultural sectors over his time as a corporate advisor.

Jordan seeks fair value exchange which led him to trading hard assets. He had a 15 year New York City real esate career, as the principal broker of a multiple office firm and investor in properties. In 2007 Jordan gravitated to natural resources to create commodity money and developed oil and gas, gold, silver, copper, and other mineral mining and trading projects. He invests and works in the capacity of business development, and senior management roles. With the onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the opportunity to ensure fair value exchange through decentralized tokenization Jordan began developing regenerative circular ecosystems, digital currencies and assets that provide positive social impact. Jordan is a founder, board member and advisor to a number of blockchain and cryptocurrency projects including the United African Blockchain Association and African Blockchain University.