Andrew Porter

Mr. Porter has over 20 years of experience in the financial services, fintech and crypto currency industries serving in various senior management roles and as an investor, board advisor and director. Mr Porter is currently Chief Investment Officer of Aventine Capital Pty Ltd, a private investment company investing in early stage tech startups.

Since February 2020, Mr. Porter has served as board advisor to CryptoSpend, an Australian fintech startup partnered with VISA, providing crypto to AUD payment solutions. Mr Porter was also the company’s first seed investor. In addition, Mr. Porter has served as a board advisor to FlashFX, a non-bank foreign exchange and international payments provider, since June 2020. As well as being the company’s first seed investor, Mr. Porter also served as a board advisor to Synthetix (previously Havven), an Australian decentralized finance derivatives and liquidity protocol. Synthetix eventually reached a market cap of $6Bill+ and held over $2Bill TVL.

From February 2022 to June 2022, Mr. Porter served as the Chief Executive Officer of FinTech Australia, an industry group representing the Australian fintech industry. Mr. Porter has also served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Flash FX from June 2020 until January 2021. From March 2018 to March 2020, Mr. Porter served as Chief Commercial Officer and Country Director of TransferMate Global Payments, a non-bank foreign exchange and international payments provider and one of Ireland’s most successful fintech’s. From March 2010 to June 2017, Mr. Porter served as Managing Director of World First Pty Ltd, a non-bank foreign exchange and international payments provider. Mr Porter built the Australian operations of this UK based fintech from a four person startup into one of Australia’s leading International payments businesses. World First sold to China’s Ant Financial in early 2019.

Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University and a Diploma of Financial Markets from The Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA).