# CV Lea Schmitt hi@schmittlea.com I [Medium](https://medium.com/@lea.schmitt1603) I [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_schmitted) <p style='font-size:20px'>Professional Experience: </p> * **Centrifuge:** DeFi Partnerships Lead / Product Partnerships Manager July 2018 - November 2021, Berlin / Remote CFG in 1 sentence: Financing non-crypto native assets (e.g. invoices) via DeFi (e.g MakerDAO). * DeFi Integrations Lead, e.g.: * **MakerDAO:** Collaborated with MakerDAO / RWA Group on governance after transition from Single Collateral Dai to Multi-Collateral Dai in order to [add RWA](https://twitter.com/_schmitted/status/1384949390562013188?s=20&t=ZnBtyVuo5x15Sg2ZZQ1pEA) as collateral type * **Aave:** Launched the first [RWA Market](https://rwamarket.io/#/reserve-overview/0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48-0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb480xb953a066377176092879a151c07798b3946eea4b) on the Aave protocol * Onboarded first asset and liquidity providers and scaled from 180k to ~35M USD revolving financing of different collateral types * Transitioned BD team from 1 to ~7 people, scoped out different responsibilities and managed communication between BD and Product team * Led users through [product](https://tinlake.centrifuge.io/) iterations (v1: static asset pools, v2: revolving asset pools + A/B tranches) and DeFi integrations (MakerDAO, Aave) * **Innogy SE / Innovation Hub:** Portfolio Manager / Program Manager January 2017 - June 2018, Berlin / Palo Alto IH in 1 sentence: As part of Innogy SE - a subsidiary of RWE responsible for the renewable branch - the IH built ventures and invested in startups in that field * 2018, Palo Alto: Working with one of the ventures in pre-seed stage * 2017, Berlin: Building up the Berlin office for portfolio companies & ventures (from setting up the physical space to market & user research to busines model workshops) --- <p style='font-size:20px'>Education: </p> * **TU Berlin / Master in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship** 2014-2016, Berlin * Dual program at partner university [SGH](www.sgh.waw.pl) in Warsaw (2015) * **Universtity of Duisburg and Essen / Bachelor in Cognitive and Media Science** 2010-2014, Duisburg * Research stay at USC [Institute for Creative Technologies](https://ict.usc.edu/) for 5 months (2013) --- <p style='font-size:20px'>Currently: </p> * Just finished the renovation of a finca on the Canary Islands and brushing up my Spanish language skills * Working the occasional (boulder) problem