Raymond Qu

Founder, Geoswift

Role: Associate

Site: CDL-Vancouver

Stream: Compute

Raymond is the Founder and Chairman of Geoswift, an innovative, globalized, payment technology company, with a distinct niche in cross-border payments. Under Raymond’s leadership, Geoswift has come to specialize in eCommerce, education, and travel, providing best-in-class cross-border collection & settlement, remittance, foreign currency exchange, and e-wallet solutions with niche expertise in monetary policies.

He is also the Founder of LR Capital, an investment fund pursuing proprietary risk-minimized investment strategies in different ecosystems. Raymond is a well-known investor in global digital finance with a passion for making international payments more efficient, investing in companies in financial technology, artificial intelligence, Web3, Blockchain, Metaverse, and digital banking.

He also holds roles as a Senior Adviser to the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), a member of the Forbes Finance Council, and an adviser to the Finance Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center in China.

Raymond holds an MBA from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia with a special focus on digital currencies.