Media & Speaking
I’m available for interviews, research calls, podcasts, panels and background briefings when the subject sits close to wealth technology, client engagement, AI products, personal intelligence or data ownership.
Selected media
Previous interviews and commentary include the publications below.
January 2026 · Feature
The New Yorker
Sam Knight’s feature examines WhatsApp’s place in everyday life, including Ben’s work on Mimoto and the product’s attempt to make private conversation histories useful to the people they belong to.
Read the featureJuly 2025 · Interview
The Observer
Amelia Tait’s feature explores how people use AI in everyday life, including Ben’s account of analysing WhatsApp conversations, building Mimoto and using relationship patterns as prompts for human reflection.
Read the interviewUseful territory
Why institutional change moves slowly, how workflow beats software, and what actually gets used by advisers and relationship managers.
How content, data and product design can support better human relationships in private banks, wealth managers and asset managers.
Where AI is useful in wealth and product work, where the pitch gets ahead of reality, and how to separate capability from performance.
What happens when personal data becomes useful intelligence — and why ownership, permissions and architecture matter.
Why permission to remember, recommend or act needs visible boundaries that a person can inspect and change.
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50-word biography
Ben Backx is a founder and product builder working across wealth technology, personal intelligence and privacy-aware AI. He is co-founder and CTO of GoUpscale and founder of Baxnet Technologies, where he builds Mimoto. His earlier work includes American Express, RBS, Standard Chartered and OpenDNA across organisations in Europe and Asia.
100-word biography
Ben Backx is a founder and product builder working across wealth technology, personal intelligence and privacy-aware AI. He is co-founder and CTO of GoUpscale, a client-engagement platform for wealth management, and founder of Baxnet Technologies, where he builds Mimoto, an on-device Personal Intelligence product beginning with private conversations. Earlier, Ben worked in product and transformation at American Express, RBS and Standard Chartered, then led product strategy at OpenDNA. His work focuses on making difficult data useful without losing sight of the person, relationship or trust boundary it is meant to support. Based between Singapore and Bangkok, he works internationally today.
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