Chief Executive Officer

 

Based in Doha Qatar, JJ Dandrieux is a results-oriented, hands-on executive with over 15 years of experience as an investor and a corporate architect of emerging technology companies. He transforms young companies' identity, mission, and business models alongside their management teams to achieve their objectives. JJ thrives working with leaders and executives as their trusted advisor and strategist. He has built companies in New York, Silicon Valley, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia, co-founding companies in aerospace, software, mobile technology, and data analytics. JJ manages business operations with excellent leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills, consistently delivering results in Marketing, Sales, Finance, Distribution, and Facilities.

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Currently, JJ is the Executive Director at 20 Pine Consulting LLC in Doha, a QFC licensed company acting as an illiquid strategy advisor for a multifamily office group based in GCC, East Asia, and the US. His responsibilities include strategy and market entry for large Private Equity and Venture Capital investment companies into the GCC Region, long-term investment and trend analysis, capital formation, and structuring of club deals and SPVs. As a Partner at Shockwave Capital in London and Oslo since 2020, he has been involved with a disruptive blockchain FCA / CIMA regulated investment vehicle, focusing on investor selection and fundraising for digital assets hedge funds, deal sourcing, analysis, and execution.

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JJ also serves as a venture partner for Differential Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York, and as Managing Director of FourDice Consulting LLC. Previously, he was the head and Managing Partner of FourDice Ventures LLC and Director of Global Business Development and Strategy at Senseta. His prior roles include being an Associate at Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, where he covered large-cap foreign multinational clients, provided credit analysis, credit ratings, and managed credit facilities. Earlier in his career, JJ worked in an oil and gas family office, where he acted as a broker in physical commodities trading (physical crude oil and derivatives) and provided consulting services in project finance.

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JJ holds an MS in Global Finance from NYU Stern and HKUST; and a BA from BI Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. He is a French citizen from Corsica, France.