Leadership
The principals behind the platform.
Aurum's Managing Partners bring the institutional relationships, sovereign networks, and technical infrastructure that make the platform possible. Behind them: a senior team drawn from global finance, law, tax, and digital asset infrastructure.
Managing Partner · Co-founder
Carl Erik Henin Le Maresquier🇫🇷
French national · 35+ years in sovereign capital · Europe · Africa · Gulf
"Carl Erik Henin Le Maresquier has spent 35 years operating at the intersection of sovereign capital, government leadership, and private wealth across four continents. His network reaches the principals — not their intermediaries — in the markets where Aurum clients deploy capital and seek residency."
- Senior advisor to heads of state and government ministers across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia — on sovereign investment strategy, infrastructure capital deployment, and bilateral economic partnerships spanning three decades
- Principal in cross-border transactions exceeding USD 2 billion in aggregate — privatisation mandates, sovereign joint ventures, and institutional capital introductions across energy, telecommunications, and financial services
- Board and advisory roles at listed and private companies across France, the United Kingdom, West Africa, and the Gulf — with a specific track record in regulated financial services, digital infrastructure, and cross-border investment vehicles
- Co-founder of Aurum — bringing institutional distribution networks, sovereign-level relationships, and direct access to family offices and UHNWI principals across Europe, the Gulf, and West Africa who are actively restructuring wealth away from Western tax jurisdictions
Positioning
Operates at the intersection of capital allocation, geopolitical access, and strategic execution. Provides direct connectivity to senior decision-makers across public and private sectors.
Managing Partner · Co-founder
Zurab Ashvil🇬🇪🇺🇸
Georgian-American · Ph.D., Cybernetics and Applied Math · 34+ years in capital markets infrastructure
"Zurab Ashvil has spent three decades building the institutional infrastructure that precedes markets, not the products that follow them. In 1992 he built the Tbilisi Interbank Currency Exchange — subsequently absorbed by the National Bank of Georgia as the country's national foreign exchange infrastructure. He does not describe Georgian institutional infrastructure. He built it."
- Founder and CEO of T3RRA Ltd — an independent global platform for the tokenisation of commercial real estate and regulated real-world assets. Built on the L3RS-1 regulated asset standard.
- Founder of the L3RS Foundation and original author of L3RS-1 — an open, royalty-free Layer-3 Regulated Asset Standard governed by an independent body. Deployed across multiple production environments.
- Venture experience within SoftBank Capital ecosystem — worked on investments in high-growth technology companies during the global broadband and mobile expansion.
- Founder of Proluck Inc. — financial infrastructure advisory. Advised JPMorgan, ING, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers, including during the Lehman collapse and SIPA liquidation.
- Creator of L3COS, the predecessor to L3RS — presented at leading global economic forums and in direct engagements with central banks.
Positioning
The reason Aurum's compliance and custody claims are verifiable rather than advisory. Three decades building the infrastructure layer of global capital markets.
Managing Partner · Co-founder
Falk Spoerri🇨🇭
Swiss national · 23 years in Georgian markets · Project finance & real assets
"Falk Spoerri has spent 23 years turning complex opportunities into high-value assets across Georgia's real estate, hospitality, infrastructure, and digital sectors. He does not advise on Georgian project finance. He has executed it — closing over USD 55 million in combined debt, mezzanine, and equity financing for landmark Georgian projects."
- Raised and closed USD 20M debt + mezzanine with DFC and Georgian government development fund for Tsinandali Estate (Radisson Collection), 2014–2016
- Secured EUR 15M equity from IFU (Danish development finance) for the Telegraph Hotel, Tbilisi
- COO of Syn Fiz LLC — designed, built and operates a 5.7 MW bitcoin mining data center in Tbilisi Free Zone at 99%+ uptime
- Founder of Spoerri + Partners LLC — 10+ years of project finance, M&A, master planning, and IFI syndication across Georgian real estate and hospitality
Positioning
The on-the-ground execution layer for Aurum clients. Falk originates, structures, and manages the underlying Georgian real assets that generate platform yields.
Managing Partner · Co-founder
Nikoloz Ramishvili🇬🇪
Georgian · Chicago Booth MBA · 30+ years across government, insurance & institutional networks
"Nikoloz Ramishvili brings three decades of senior executive experience across insurance, healthcare, government, and technology in Georgia, the US, and the wider region. He has led organisations, advised ministries, and built companies from the ground up — including founding Vienna Talks, a multinational geopolitical conference held annually in Austria."
- CEO of Archimedes Global Georgia (JSC Medical Insurance Group) — built the company from founding to market leadership over five years, 2007–2012
- First Deputy Minister of Employment of Georgia, 2012 — led national unemployment strategy and reform
- Senior roles at Silk Road Group across Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan — oil trading, insurance, and business development, 2000–2006
- Founder of Vienna Talks (2019) — annual multinational geopolitical conference on security and the new era of geopolitical alignment, held in Vienna, Austria
Positioning
Strategic advisory and Georgian institutional networks. Nikoloz provides access to government, regulatory, and senior business relationships across Georgia and the wider region.
Specialists, not generalists, across every dimension of the platform.
Behind Aurum's Managing Partners sits a senior team drawn from global investment banking, magic circle law, Big Four tax advisory, and institutional digital asset infrastructure. These are not generalists. They are principals and specialists who have spent careers at the institutions Aurum clients have dealt with — and who bring that access to bear on outcomes that those institutions cannot themselves deliver.
Finance
Capital markets · private equity · structured products · wealth advisory
Legal
Cross-border structuring · securities law · regulatory compliance · trust & estate
Tax
International tax planning · residency structuring · treaty optimisation · CRS reporting
Technology
Digital asset infrastructure · MPC custody · RWA tokenisation · L3RS-1 compliance protocol