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About CANVAS

Architecting the future of finance
Canvas is a catalyst for financial transformation, using blockchain to accelerate the efficiency of global financial transactions.

Our unparalleled advantage
With a deep understanding of financial markets and the digital economy, Canvas is committed to driving the digital transformation of banks, financial institutions and governments in the modern landscape. By providing innovative solutions that are faster, more secure, and more cost-effective than traditional systems, Canvas is helping to unlock the potential of digital finance globally.

Canvas was created in the belief that tokenised deposits, CBDCs and digital securities will radically transform financial and capital markets over the next decade with trillions of dollars of securities and currencies to be tokenized and traded 24/7/365.

Innovation is behind everything we do
By leveraging emerging technologies like Zero Knowledge Proofs and Layer 2 networks, Canvas is able to provide the critical infrastructure needed by governments, financial institutions and corporates as they begin to adopt Digital Assets & trade digital securities in the Digital Economy.

Our dynamic approach to innovation permeates every facet of our operations, enabling us to provide a variety of unique solutions to longstanding financial challenges. We're crafting ground breaking platforms and services that are faster, more secure, and more cost-effective, pushing the boundaries of traditional financial transactions. Canvas’ drive for innovative exploration is not just a company mantra, but a continual commitment to envisioning and actualizing the future of financial technology. Our extensive research and development, coupled with the incorporation of the latest blockchain advancements, serves as the catalyst for redefining what's possible in the fintech space.

Our Commitment to privacy and confidentiality
We understand the need for financial institutions and governments to protect confidential information and comply with regulatory compliance requirements. We are committed to safeguarding sensitive information whilst benefiting from the efficiencies gained with public blockchain technology.

Canvas Connect, our core privacy layer, is built with privacy at the forefront. It ensures that financial institutions canmove confidently into the digital economy whilst providing their clients with ahigher level of security and confidentiality, and comply with regulatoryrequirements related to data privacy and protection.

Leading the industry to a better financial future
We think that regulation of the industry is important to safeguard market participants and as such we are registered as aDigital Currency Exchange with Austrac. We are also authorised by ASIC to create, arrange and deal in financial products.

We have decades of experience in FinTech and bring this level of expertise and professionalism to an emerging market. Not theoretical – we create and deploy live real commercial applications of blockchain technology that generate long term recurring revenue from blue chip clients globally.

We share our time, experience, knowledge and networks with the community with the aim of establishing Australia as a global leader of digital assets.

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The 4 belief pillars we live by are:

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Treat It Like You Own It
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We want people to treat this business like it’s their own. Take responsibility for their actions, their work and their attitudes. We can only change the world if we all turn up every day as the best versions of ourselves and leave the business and our customers in a better place than we found them that morning.

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Say No To Isolation
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We are a team, we look up, we look around, we care more than others, we care more for others, we learn from others and our eyes are always on the horizon. We know ideas come from people’s experience and different backgrounds. We trust each other to deliver on what we say we will.

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Every Problem Has A Solution
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We are a yes and business. Action trumps inaction every day and done is better than perfect. Through our experience, drive, innovative attitudes and relentless urge to succeed we will always find a solution.

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What’s Coming Up Is More Important Than What’s Happened

We are a future focused business. We are literally transforming the way finance is done all over the world, we need to be focused on the future not the past. We make decisions every day with the information and resources we have to the best of our ability and back ourselves. We need to be ahead of the game and planning way into the future not looking back at the past.

Meet The Executive Team

The executive team are all highly experienced FinTech entrepreneurs and investors. They have deep domain knowledge and a passion for technology, finance and blockchain.

David Lavecky

CEO & CO-FOUNDER

David is a highly experienced technology entrepreneur and investor, currently serving as CEO and Co-Founder of CANVAS; a ﬁntech company that is transforming investment opportunities by offering clients a gateway to the Web3 economy of Blockchain, Digital Assets, Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and NFTs.

Daniel Lavecky

CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER

Tim Moddel

HEAD OF PRODUCT & CO-FOUNDER

Tim is a highly experienced technologist, he has long been interested in Blockchain technology and in 2016 began exploring blockchain start-ups and technologies as an investor. He believes these new technologies represent a paradigm shift that will radically transform the world of finance and many other industries over the next decade.

David Lavecky

CEO & CO-FOUNDER

David is a highly experienced technology entrepreneur and investor, currently serving as CEO and Co-Founder of CANVAS™; a ﬁntech company that is transforming investment opportunities by offering clients a gateway to the Web3 economy of Blockchain, Digital Assets,Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and NFTs. He believes the Web3 economy represents a paradigm shift in technology that will radically transform ﬁnance (and many other industries) over the next decade.

David is also Managing Partner of Double Bay Capital, which investsin early stage start-ups that are disrupting traditional industries through innovation, disruptive technologies or new market approaches.

Prior to this, David was COO & EVP of Pure Commerce, which was one of Australia’s ﬁrst high-growth ﬁntech companies. There he managed a global portfolio of staff across multiple divisions including Sales, Technology, Operations and Compliance and was directly responsible for expanding the company’s operational performance and attaining its ﬁnancial targets.

Following the sale of Pure Commerce to Euronet, David was retained to continue the global growth, working with major banks and key merchants across the globe.

David is an experienced investor and entrepreneur who is renowned for mentoring portfolio businesses in the start-up community.

Daniel Lavecky

CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER

Daniel is a committed entrepreneur and successful business executive with over 20 years of experience in the ﬁnancial services industry. He brings innovative thinking and strong leadership skills to the boardroom, having founded one of Australia’s ﬁrst high-growth ﬁntech companies.
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He has signiﬁcant experience intechnology, ﬁnance and entrepreneurial global growth.Daniel is a visionary entrepreneur.

As Managing Partner of DoubleBay Capital, Daniel and his team invests in early stage start-ups that are disrupting traditional industries through innovation, disruptive technologies or newmarket approaches.

He was the founder and CEO of Pure Commerce from its inceptionin 1997 to its sale to Euronet Worldwide ( Nasdaq: EEFT) in2013.

In his tenure at Pure Commerce, Daniel led the company through an explosive growth period that saw it go from managing millions to managing billions per annum with some of the world’s largest ﬁnancial institutions such as Citibank, Fiserve, Bank of NewZealand, and Korean ExchangeBank as customers.

In 2013 He led the team to what was one of Australia’s most successful Fintech sales to Euronet World wide ( NASDAQ:EEFT) He was retained by Euronet as the CEO of Pure Commerce to continue the company’s global growth. Investors in PureCommerce enjoyed over a 10X return.

At Double Bay Capital, Daniel along with his brother David have invested globally in some of the most exciting Fintech start ups in the world.

Daniel has spent his entire career building and scaling companies.
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Tim Moddel

HEAD OF PRODUCT & CO-FOUNDER

Tim is a highly experienced technologist who has long been interested in Blockchain technology and in 2016 began exploring blockchain start-ups and technologies as an investor. He believes these new technologies represent a paradigm shift that will radically transform the world of finance and many other industries over the next decade.

He is passionate about democratising this technology to make it easy to onboard the next 500 million people into this new frontier of finance and investment opportunities.

Prior to this, Tim has spent over 15 years as a Management Consultant in Technology Advisory. Most recently he was Practice Manager – Business Process at DXC Technology, responsible for co-founding a leading digital transformation business unit that provided advisory and implementation services to large multinational corporations.

His experience spans organisations in multiple countries, industries (Financial Services, Logistics, Retail and Manufacturing) and in both public and private sector. He has led these organisations through complex digital transformations and cross-business application implementations (e.g. Financial, Supply Chain, Customer Relationship Management), helping them navigate industry hurdles and road blocks through developing new operating models and process frameworks.

He strongly advocates trust and integrity as key values of those he works with. His leadership style is collaborative and to lead by example, gaining great satisfaction from building the capacity and capability of those around him to push boundaries and challenge themselves.

About Us

About CANVAS

Our company mission

Our company core purpose

The 4 belief pillars we live by are:

Meet The Executive Team

David Lavecky

Daniel Lavecky

Tim Moddel

David Lavecky

Daniel Lavecky

Tim Moddel