Elisabeth Préfontaine, MBA, CFA, CAIA
Services
Target audience: Family Offices - RIAs - Institutional money managers - Professionals (accountants, lawyers) - High net worth individuals - Executives (insurance, banking, securities, capital markets) - Private equity - Energy producers.
Services are available in French and in English.
Consulting
This made-to-measure service is designed to support the understanding and ongoing education needed to stay abreast of the developments in the ecosystem. The firm assists clients who need a go-to person to ask questions. Some may need to quickly get up the steep learning curve, while others may have considerations regarding the due diligence of a service provider or an investment proposition. Octonomics can keep its clients updated on a breaking news or assist them with the know how needed to buy and sell bitcoin while educating on how to ensure safe custody of the assets. Octonomics does not get involved in the actual transaction (fiat or bitcoin).
Business model: per hour consultation fee. Retainer package available.
Research
This strategic intelligence service provides clients with competitive, timely and usable information through its detection of emerging trends garnered from extensive reading and independent market research. In a world overwhelmed with data, Octonomics’ ability to see the forest for the trees allows to provide its clients with the ‘big picture’ which helps them to make better decisions.
- Financial services: Strategic watch on new business models in the new ecosystem or business model adaptation in the traditional/legacy ecosystem.
- Technological developments: Side chains (lightning network, liquid, etc.), smart phones, wallets, mining hardware.
- Facebook: the good, the bad and the ugly.
- Bitcoin as an asset class: Investment thesis, Institutional endorsement, the perspective of naysayers, valuation and network statistics.
- Central Bank Digital Currency: Implications, negative interests rates and competing private money.
- Other: energy consumption, review of Japan’s head start in digital assets, special requests.
Publicly available research:
-Rapport d’analyse Présenté à la Régie de l’énergie (French)
- Comments to Canadian Securities Regulators (consultation paper 21-402) (English)
Business model: Customized per mandate or ongoing by retainer for flagging selected topics.
Advisory
Octonomics can provide strategic, managerial and networking assistance to help entrepreneurs who wish to advance their project to the next step. Entrepreneurs are invited to be clear about the problem(s) their business is trying to solve and how they believe Octonomics can specifically be of help.
The firm does not get involved Initial Coins Offerings (ICO’s, IEO's, STO's).
The firm does not get involved in over-the-counter (OTC) trading.
Octonomics is interested in the following bitcoin-related themes: non-custodial services, micro-payments/ lending/ investing, and bitcoin backed assets.
Clever ideas to link the physical world to the digital world, about monetization of nodes on second layer applications and technologies for more efficient energy production and reuse (for mining) will find a very open ear.
Business model: customized per opportunity and involves a combination of equity and/or $.
Conference
Elisabeth has been a public speaker for over two decades. She is available as a keynote speaker, as a panelist or for shorter speaking engagements.
- Pro-bono engagements will be considered for universities and charitable organizations.
- The content copyrights remain the property of Octonomics.
- Conferences are available in English or French.
Recommended Topics for 2019:
Survival of the Fittest - The Digital Future of Financial Services
Beyond Open Banking: Understanding Bitcoin
Facebook: A Digital National State?
Digital Identity
Business model: speaker fee.
Contact
Bitcoin accepted
