Dinis Guarda was born in Portugal. His family is from Portuguese and French backgrounds. He has lived in Portugal, France, Sweden, and Denmark and is based in London, UK since 2011.
He coursed his BA in Languages and Literature from the Universidade de Lisboa between 1992 and 1997 and achieved a Master's in New Media from London South Bank University in 2011. Dinis has lived in Sweden and worked in Denmark prior to moving to London.
Dinis started his professional career back in Portugal in 1997 as the Founder Member of the cultural organisation Número – Arte e Cultura and created the arts and fashion magazine NumeroMagazine between Lisbon and Paris with Didier Fiuza Faustino. Still in Portugal, he collaborated with Alcatel and the Portuguese Government Department of Technology and Development UMIC between 2003 and 2006. He was also involved with the Portuguese government as Curator and Project Manager, for the Portuguese Presidency of the Republic in 2006 and 2007.
Moving to London he worked as Strategy Project Manager, Account Manager, and Analyst at Greenlight Digital, until 2008. That same year, he became the Global Head of Content, SEO and Social media at Saxo Bank until 2011. While he was working at Saxo Bank, he founded one of the world's first fintech, social trading platforms tradingfloor.com.
In 2011, he founded Ztudium Limited. Ztudium created and manages the technology and AI - blockchain-based FinTech solution blocksdna, the media intelligenthq.com and lifestyle and healthcare platform as a service software lifesdna.
Ztudium features a publishing division that manages intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, and tradersdna.com among others.
Between 2014 and 2015 he was involved in creating a fabbanking.com a digital bank between Asia and Africa as Chief Commercial Officer and Marketing Officer responsible for all legal, tech and business development.
In 2019, Dinis co-founded:
- fashionabc.org, a social impact blockchain fashion directory platform, techabc.org a 4IR - digital transformation blockchain, AI, and Fintech fund.
- Businessabc.net, the business B2B wiki directory and search engine - a new financial blockchain AI empowerment platform and fintech marketplace.
These products and platforms offer multiple AI P2P, fintech, blockchain, search engine and PaaS solutions in consumer wellness healthcare and life style with a global team of experts and universities.
He is also the founder of coinsdna a new swiss regulated, Swiss based, institutional grade token and cryptocurrencies blockchain exchange. He is founder of DragonBloc a blockchain, AI, Fintech fund and co-founder of Freedomee project.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays, and governments all over the world.
Dinis creates and helps build ventures focused on global growth, 360 digital strategies, sustainable innovation, Blockchain, Fintech, AI and new emerging business models such as ICOs / tokenomics.
Dinis is involved as a strategist, board member, and advisor with the payments, lifestyle, and blockchain reward community app Glance technologies. For this company, he built the blockchain messaging/payment/loyalty software Blockimpact that he sold in 2017. He is an advisor and small shareholder of Hyperloop Transportations project.
He is a shareholder of the Fintech social money transfer app Moneymailme and the math edutech gamification children’s app Gozoa. He has been a lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Groupe INSEEC/Monaco University and other leading world universities.
He is also the creator of FreedomX, Wisdomia.ai, and metaverseabc, the 4IR enabled platforms offering solutions for the Web 3.0 era.
Academic career
Dinis’s first passion and specialisation was in literature, arts, and poetry, and started publishing magazines and books when he was 14 years old. He did his Master's in new media, digitisation and transforming knowledge in content, using social media and digital transformation in his studies at London South Bank University.
He has been lecturing at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs in fintech, social media, blockchain, and AI, and others for business executives. He has been invited to give guest lectures at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and King's College.
Published Works
Dinis is the author of various books. He has published different books such "4IR AI Blockchain Fintech IoT Reinventing a Nation", "How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, also the bigger case study and book (400 pages) “Blockchain, AI and Crypto Economics - The Next Tsunami?” last the “Tokenomics and ICOs - How to be good at the new digital world of finance / Crypto” was launched in 2018.