About Clearbon

The future of money made tangible for small businesses.

Clearbon helps small businesses thrive. By strengthening a loyal and committed customer base, they can generates cash inflows earlier and more often.

We power loyalty and prepayment services, with a twist: Credits earned or prepaid within a network of businesses can be redeemed at any business within the network, managed by Clearbon’s virtual currency platform.
This liquidity gain raises the relevance of such programs to customers and levels the playing field with big players.

Co-Founders

The team builds on solid experience in bank-related technology development, strategic marketing leadership, and dedication to social innovation.

Arno Hesse

Before Clearbon, Arno was Executive Vice President for Retail Products and Marketing at Union Bank (over $80 billion in assets) where he led Product Management, Customer Experience Management, and Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has executed market strategies with a special focus on changing organizational cultures, as culture tends to eat strategy for breakfast.
As a founding member of Slow Money, Arno works on directing investments into local food systems. He is also easily distracted by typography. For updates: @ahesse

Guillaume Lebleu

Before Clearbon, Guillaume co-founded Brixlogic, a software vendor specializing in the implementation of legacy and modern financial messaging protocols. After Brixlogic’s acquisition by Diebold in early 2007, Guillaume worked on strategic product initiatives related to mobile banking.
He is passionate about empowering people with financial technologies. He writes his thoughts on the future of money at lebleu.org and @giyom

Advisors

Chris Lindstrom

Chris Lindstrom, is a Board member of Slow Money. He worked for the E.F. Schumacher Society, from 2003 to 2008, spearheading the launch of the "BerkShares" currency in Massachusetts. Chris is a co-founder of the Fund for Complementary Currencies. He has organized numerous conferences and events around the transformation of money.

Woody Tasch

Woody is Founder and Chairman of Slow Money, a movement and national nonprofit organization with over 15 local networks. Investors, entrepreneurs, localization pioneers have joined to catalyze investments in local food systems. He is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green). Woody pioneered the integration of asset management and philanthropic purpose in the 1990s as treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance. He was chairman of Investors' Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, and social purpose funds and foundations.