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Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi is a Moroccan-born financier and entrepreneur who currently serves as an Independent Director nominee on the board of Art Technology Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ARTC/ARTCU), a special purpose acquisition company that priced its $220 million IPO in January 2026, selling 25,300,000 units at $10.00 per unit for gross proceeds of approximately $253 million. The SPAC, led by CEO and Chairman Daniel G. Cohen, Vice Chairman Katherine E. Fleming, CFO R. Maxwell Smeal, and COO Emmanuelle Cohen, intends to pursue a business combination in the technology, art, financial services, and investment banking sectors. Benjelloun-Touimi filed his initial statement of beneficial ownership as a director in July 2026, formally establishing his insider status alongside fellow board members Walter T. Beach and Phoebe A. Saatchi. His appointment to the ARTC board reflects his deep expertise at the intersection of finance and the art market, a niche he has spent the better part of a decade pioneering.
Benjelloun-Touimi's primary professional endeavor is ARTEX Global Markets, which he co-founded in 2020 with Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein—a former Goldman Sachs employee and son of Prince Philipp Erasmus of Liechtenstein, the Honorary President of the Liechtenstein LGT Group. ARTEX is the world's first stock exchange dedicated to transforming fine art into a tradable asset class, allowing investors to buy and sell shares in individual masterpieces through a regulated, centrally cleared platform. The company employs more than 60 people across Paris, London, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein, and secured the Swiss stock exchange SIX as its clearing partner. ARTEX conducted its inaugural trading session in March 2024, and its model—dubbed "from the hammer to the bell"—involves creating a separate listed company for each artwork and conducting an IPO for its shares, each with a nominal value of $100. Prices are transmitted to Bloomberg, and the platform operates with the same security and regulatory standards as the London Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. The venture has attracted high-profile support, including from Andrea Orcel, former head of the UBS investment bank and current CEO of UniCredit, who is earmarked as a possible future ARTEX board member. Harvard Business School published a case study on the company in 2024, titled "Masterpiece for the Masses: The First Art Exchange ARTEX," authored by Lauren Cohen, Anastasiya Siroochenko, and Sophia Pan.
Prior to founding ARTEX, Benjelloun-Touimi accumulated over 20 years of investment banking experience in London, primarily at UBS, where he held a leading position in the trading of credit securities in Europe. It was during his UBS tenure that he met both Andrea Orcel and Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein, relationships that would later prove instrumental to his entrepreneurial venture. In 2013, he departed UBS to launch his own hedge fund, Capital Partners, which subsequently merged into Dalton Strategic Partnership, an asset manager where Benjelloun-Touimi served as a partner alongside Prince Wenzeslaus. His LinkedIn profile also references affiliations with Harvard Business School and roles spanning board directorships, private equity, and venture capital, consistent with his broad investment management background.
Benjelloun-Touimi's personal journey—from growing up in Morocco and studying in Paris to building a career in London's financial district—has shaped his vision for democratizing art ownership. He traces his passion for art to a childhood documentary on Leonardo da Vinci that he watched at age eight, and he has described ARTEX as a vehicle to free great artworks from what he calls "prison" in private collections and storage, making them accessible to the public in museums while simultaneously enabling fractional ownership for ordinary investors. He has deliberately avoided tokenization in favor of conventional equity IPOs, citing simplicity and regulatory clarity, and has
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