OUR TEAM
MICHAEL ROBINSON
Michael serves as a director and consultant to Web3 businesses. In providing these services, Michael draws upon over 10 years of experience working as an attorney in private practice. He is a former Managing Associate at Ogier in the Cayman Islands and was a key individual in Ogier’s digital asset practice. He is a recognized and recommended lawyer by international ranking agency Legal500 and has been noted as a “rising star” in both 2022 and 2023.
Michael is a thought leader and an industry specialist advising blockchain and virtual asset businesses and projects using offshore entities. He pioneered the use of foundation companies to act as wrappers or service providers to blockchain-related businesses, particularly with respect to decentralized autonomous organizations. He is a published author on the subject.
Michael has advised some of the largest and well known Web3 businesses in the world and has worked on over 100 blockchain-related projects. He has advised household names in the Web3 industry as well as the core teams supporting the largest DAOs in the world. He has worked with layer one protocols, DeFi platforms, centralized finance platforms, centralized and decentralized exchanges, oracles, interchain bridges, grant programs, code audit projects, NFT issuers, stable coin issuers, gaming developers, digital banks, virtual asset proprietary traders, cryptocurrency funds and tokenized funds. He has worked with both regulated and non-regulated entities.
Michael’s prior legal expertise in the Web3 space defines his approach as a director and is a significant value add for any Web3 project seeking to operate out of the Cayman Islands or the BVI.
Michael is admitted to act as an attorney in the Cayman Islands and England and Wales but he is non-practicing. He resides in the Cayman Islands and is a citizen of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Marc Piano
Marc is a director and consultant to Web3 businesses. He is former Counsel at Harneys in the Cayman Islands where he was a key team member in the firm's global Web3 practice. He is a recognized and recommended lawyer by international ranking agency Legal500 and has been noted as "Up and Coming" by Chambers in 2024.
Marc's thought leadership as an industry specialist extends to years of published material, including co-founding, contributing to and editing the Law Society of England and Wales' Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Guidance report from 2020 to 2023, hosting the "Piano Lessons" crypto podcast series, contributing to the British Virgin Islands chapter of "Crypto Assets in Trusts and Foundations" published by Globe Law and Business in 2024, and authoring "DAOs: a note of caution" for Harneys during 2022 and 2023.
Marc has worked on more than 100 blockchain-related projects across three jurisdictions over seven years. He was sought out as an adviser to some of the world's largest digital assets projects and infrastructure, leading on structuring their mission-critical offshore operational and governance elements, and has worked with both regulated and non-regulated entities. Marc's position as one of the leading legal minds with vast experience in the space at all stages of a project's lifecycle will benefit any project seeking to operate out of the Cayman Islands or the BVI.
Mark Mugglestone
Mark is a director and consultant to Web3 businesses. He has been resident in the Cayman Islands for over 11 years where his previous employers have included PwC, Maples Group and Conyers. Mark is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with extensive experience in the offshore financial services industry where he has serviced clients across multiple industry groups from an auditing, accounting, regulatory and fiduciary perspective.
Mark’s involvement in the offshore blockchain space extends back to 2017 where he was seconded to what would later become one of the largest and most recognized organizations in the blockchain industry today. Mark’s initial role included duties around their initial token sale, setting up accounts with crypto exchanges and arranging local banking solutions to facilitate crypto to fiat conversions. The following two years involved designing and implementing accounting protocols to account for the token sale and various transactions (developers, payroll, marketing, legal etc.) that were being settled in ETH, BTC and the newly issued native token retained in treasury. This was achieved at a time when blockchains and token issuances were relatively unknown concepts – especially in the Cayman Islands. Aside from the invaluable experience gained here, Mark has since been involved with various other offshore based token issuers and DeFi projects from both an accounting and fiduciary perspective.
Mark is a seasoned independent director having sat on the boards of various regulated and non-regulated entities, dealt with innumerable sets of transaction stakeholders and navigated through contentious situations. This experience, along with his strong background in accounting and finance will be complimentary to the service offering of Horizons Global.
Sandra Robinson
Sandra is a business development and marketing professional with over 15 years' experience at leading offshore legal and fiduciary services firms, including Maples Group, Ogier, Conyers, EY and JTC Group. She is responsible for developing and driving forward business development and marketing strategies. Sandra is originally from Jersey in the Channel Islands, and relocated to the Cayman Islands in early 2018. She is a former board member of the Cayman Islands Marketing Professionals Association, as their Head of Communications, and is qualified with the Chartered Institute of Marketing.