KR1 plc - Appointment of Non-executive Director PR Newswire Appointment of Non-executive Director KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE), a leading digital asset investment company, is pleased to announce that Mona Elisa has been appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company with effect from today. Mona is the CEO of Avantgarde Finance and was formerly the co-founder and CEO of Melonport AG, which developed Enzyme (formerly Melon), an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralised on-chain asset management. Mona Elisa is a former star-trader at Goldman Sachs, promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 and made the "Top 30 Under 30" list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes Magazine in 2011 after profitably trading the 2008 and 2011 crashes. After that, she moved to Geneva-based macro hedge fund Jabre Capital in 2011, before deciding in 2014 that the future of finance lay in blockchain technology. Mona studied Economics & Statistics at the University College London.