Daniel Erasmus

Daniel Erasmus has developed long term reference IT architectures for major financial institutions in cybersecurity, cloud services, in blockchain and in big data.

He is CEO of the sense-making global AI platform NEWSCONSOLE/Erasmus.io. Developed over the last 15 years it processes billions of text items to disrupt traditional investment practice; reinvent news and risk management; achieve breakthrough insights in medicine and research and gain global overviews where previously none existed. Using this platform asset holders are able to see the edge by combining billions of documents in large, open datasets with millions of analyst reports in an advanced Big Data/ AI platform.

For more than 20 years Daniel Erasmus has been leading large scale global transformation processes for private and public institutions - guiding, for example: the transformation of a city to a low carbon economy, a major bank to prepare for the economic crisis; the future of 6G+ communication; Central Bank’s innovation, blockchain and AI policies; designing breakthrough GameChanging innovation system for oil companies; etc.

Strategic acquisitions resulting from the consulting company he founded, The DTN have created $350 million in profit in 3 years, a 10X return on investment. Scenarios together with NewsConsole analytics anticipated the 2014 Oil Price Collapse (in 2012) for a large Oil Field Service company- leading to a $50 B merger in the Oil Field Sector and additional $3.5B in profit. DTN scenarios anticipated the $70 oil price when it was $23 (2003). Additionally DTN anticipated the global financial crisis (in early 2006) for a bank, which lead to a profit of $2.5B in 2008, its most profitable year in its 150 year history. The scenarios allowed the bank to prepare for the financial crisis two years before it happened.

Trained in engineering with a MBA, Daniel has been a Visiting Professor at Ashridge Business School, a Fellow of Rotterdam School of Management over two decades teaching executive MBAs innovation, future studies and entrepreneurship to more than a 1000 executives on 3 continents. He has written three books on breakthrough innovation (redesigning Shell’s breakthrough innovation process GameChanger), the future of the Internet and the future of Fintech. Previously he was editor of Convergence and authored the column The Economy of Ideas and The Information Society, the latter for The Financial Times Review.