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# 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:
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* **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)


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<p style='font-size:20px'>Education:
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* **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)


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<p style='font-size:20px'>Currently:
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* Just finished the renovation of a finca on the Canary Islands and brushing up my Spanish language skills
* Working the occasional (boulder) problem