Ray Chow-Toun is the CEO and Co-Founder of CVProof. Ray managed large-scale IT projects for two decades in computer manufacturing, aviation and Swiss banks at European and American leading-edge companies. Pioneering and entrepreneurial, Ray started the first Internet Application Service Provider in Switzerland in 1999. Before the iPhone emergence, In 2004 he patented a one-click mobile App trigger making keyboard handling easier. Ray is also the CVproof.com patent pending Author. He designed the CVproof validation protocol which can be compared to the public domain BlockCerts.org (at MIT) but including flexible solutions to the business transition concerns. Ray is a Swiss Crypto Valley member. Frederic Verin is the COO and Co-Founder of CVProof. He is an Entrepreneurial CFO with 10+ years experience in business set-up/acquisition and expansion in MNC’s and in start-ups (Healthcare, Bio-pharma, e-commerce) . Frederic successfully scaled up an e-commerce start-up in South East Asia over the past two years as head of finance and of organization. Purpose driven, Frederic’s expertise encompasses strategic planning and execution, business process re-engineering and risk management.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Steve Jobs
- Richard Branson
- Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“To create a momentum around us and attracting high profile talents to actually buy in our project and join us to build it, that was one of the challenges”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben HorowitzFavourite Quote:
“The future belongs to the curious, I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious”
Recommended Online Resources:
Twitter – From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“A great idea is nothing without a sound execution; you have a lot of poor ideas that have been successful because they have been very well rolled out so as entrepreneurs I think we need to keep learning from our mistakes obviously. We need to be resilient and keep going no matter what and that is important because you will always have people that tell you, you want to go left but in fact it doesn’t make sense that you should go left and you should go right everybody go right”…[Listen for More]
More About Frederic Verin & Ray Chow-Toun:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.” Kurt Cobain
Other Quotes From the Chat with Frederic Verin & Ray Chow-Toun:
- “Be self confident but don’t forget to listen to people”
- “The best goal of doing business is making a service, improving something, helping people”
- “Be honest with your goals and your objectives”
- “Be the first to work”
- “Success is a very relative concept”
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