Hans Houf (NL) CEO / Co-Founder
- Enterprise software & data platform commercialization
- EU project leadership (SOSFood, SPOON, FOODITY), European financial services sector dataU lead
- Tech lead on all EU Horizon projects. EU project management & IP ownership
- Full-stack infrastructure engineering expertise.
Filip Fontaine (B) CMO / Co-Founder
- Digital strategy & management, focus on product requirement, resource allocation & project management
- Experience in digital business transformation, optimization, personalization & automation (B2C, B2B eCommerce, mobile)
- International business development (incl. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian & Dutch fluency).
Advisory Board Members
Asen Charliyski
- Senior banking & AML compliance expertise
- EU bank sales cycle advisory
- Tier 1 EU bank network for pilot introductions
- Deep understanding of banking compliance procurement & management
Willem Voormolen
- Senior international banking & strategic customer experience
- Expertise in cross-border banking & seamless delivery of bank’s full suite of financial & clearing services across geographies
- Overseeing strategic relationships with bank most significant, international clients
Technology Partners
Jibe Company
- Architect of DataU — GDPR-native, consent-driven distributed data sharing platform (live)
- EU H2020 · PoSeiD-on, Horizon Europe · SOSFood, SPOON, FOODITY deployments across 8+ European countries
- ISO/IEC 27001:2013 — DNV-GL certified for information security management
- TRL 7 validated across three EU-funded projects
Mindrops Ltd
- Development at scale - 50+ million financial transactions per day
- UK banking consortium + Indian Ministry of Finance mandates.
- AI/ML fraud detection at banking scale.
- Jibe/Mindrops partnership (TrustCircles) formalization in progress
OUR CREDENTIALS
Proven at Scale
TrustCircles is built on an infrastructure that has already been validated, certified, and deployed at enterprise banking scale across Europe.
50M+ Transactions Per Day
Mindrops' AML infrastructure processes over 50 million transactions daily in live deployment — providing TrustCircles with an AML engine that has already proven itself at enterprise scale.
TRL 7 — EU Validated
The core technology has achieved Technology Readiness Level 7 validation — the EU standard for system prototype demonstration in an operational environment — across three EU-funded projects spanning eight or more European countries.
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 — DNV-GL Certified
Independently verified to the international gold standard for information security management. Every system, process, and data handler within the TrustCircles framework operates under this standard — not self-assessed, but externally audited and certified.
EU Horizon & H2020 — Multi-Project Track Record
Validated across EU H2020 and Horizon Europe programmes including PoSeiD-on, SOSFood, SPOON, and FOODITY — demonstrating sustained delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder European programmes.
WHY THIS TEAM
The Right Combination for This Problem
Building TrustCircles requires more than technology. It requires a team that understands how EU banks buy, how regulators think, how data infrastructure scales, and how AML works in practice — not in theory.
The TrustCircles team brings all of these dimensions together: a technical founder with EU project leadership and platform engineering depth, a commercial co-founder with multilingual European market reach, advisory board members with direct Tier 1 bank networks and senior international banking experience, and a technology partner with live, validated AML infrastructure processing transactions at banking scale every day.
This is a team built for the problem — not assembled around it.
Interested in joining our team or our advisory network?
We are growing our financial services expertise across the EU