Investor Azhar bangs the drum for blockchain in 2019

Serial investor Azeem Azhar has said he is excited about the potential of blockchain technologies in the year to come.

Azhar, who sold the social media monitoring business Peerindex for £10 million to Brandwatch in 2014, is an adviser to Accenture’s chief technical officer, Paul Daugherty, and several investment funds.

“If you look at the big successes and bets, they’ve come at key points in platform change. When the internet was introduced, it ...