Maryse Liburdi

[2][3] In September 2017, she was convicted of fraud for having deceived investors about the financial state of the company.

[1] Liburdi has been an active member of the lobbying organization Technet[4] and has participated in regional events advocating innovation economics.

In 2017, it was announced that she was one of the managers of a venture capital fund investing in sub-Saharan Africa tech startups.

[5] Liburdi was arrested in April 2016 in Rome, stemming from US charges[6] accused of investor fraud in the range of $25–30 million.

[7] In June 2017, she pled guilty of having defrauded investors by falsifying the company's bank accounts, making Pokeware appear to be in better financial condition than it actually was.