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PHOENIX CAPITAL B.V.

PRIVATE PLATFORM FOR STRUCTURING AND EXECUTION OF THE AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE DRC

Unlock Strategic Value. Ensure Execution. Build for the Long Term.

Our structuring and execution platform is designed to provide investors, entrepreneurs, and financial partners with reliable, transparent, and secure access to strategic sectors such as responsible gold and community-based carbon, all in the service of creating sustainable value.

A credible, structured, and secure gateway to high-potential strategic opportunities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By integrating governance, real assets, and advanced technologies – including blockchain, tokenization, drones, and operational monitoring tools – Phoenix Capital deploys an architecture designed to secure cash flows, reduce counterparty risk, standardize execution, and attract discerning capital.

A Different Approach to Strategic Opportunities in the DRC

ABOUT

ABOUT PHOENIX CAPITAL,
FROM MACC TO GOLDCONNECT, AND THE LAUNCH OF THE AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM

Phoenix Capital was not born from an abstract entrepreneurial concept. The company emerged from real-world experience, a concrete need for structure, and a strong conviction: that the strategic natural resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo can become a powerful driver of sustainable development, provided they are integrated into a robust framework that is well-governed, fully traceable, compliant, and capable of engaging with qualified institutional and financial partners.

Phoenix Capital now plays a central role within the AXIS National Program, forming a strategic and institutional partnership with the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the heart of the initiative. Its unique position stems from the fact that it acts both as a key implementation operator and as a structuring partner, going far beyond the role of a traditional operator. Phoenix Capital is thus behind the program’s two founding initiatives – MACC and GOLDCONNECT – for which it designed the architecture, implementation framework, and rollout strategy.

The company designed the economic, institutional, and technological framework of the model. It integrated digital contractual structuring and governed tokenization as tools for traceability, documentation, compliance, and the progressive enhancement of real-world assets, without creating a currency, electronic money, deposits, or a general-purpose payment instrument.

Phoenix Capital also provides the execution capabilities essential to implementing the model, including structuring engineering, supply chain security, advanced traceability technologies, blockchain integration, drone deployment, operational oversight, and risk mitigation mechanisms.

The FSRDC, for its part, provides the institutional foundation, governance, and government compliance interface of the framework. It ensures coordination with the relevant public stakeholders, including the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Mines, SAEMAPE, the Collective of Provincial Governors, the Ministry of the Environment, and, for matters falling within its jurisdiction, the Central Bank of the Congo (BCC), without implying any prior approval, guarantee, or endorsement by the Central Bank.

President - Founder
Alain Lemieux

In other words, Phoenix Capital is not a peripheral player in the AXIS National Program. The company is its operational architect and natural implementation partner.

Beyond gold and carbon, Phoenix Capital’s vision is broader. It involves building a more transparent, disciplined, and credible economy. It also involves deploying essential infrastructure to serve more than 20 million Congolese people. Finally, it contributes to preserving the planet’s second green lung, based on the principle that economic value creation is not at odds with environmental responsibility, but rather becomes its driving force.

It is this conviction that has guided Phoenix Capital from the outset: in high-potential markets, sustainable value does not arise spontaneously from the resource itself. It arises from the quality of structuring, the mastery of execution, risk mitigation, and the ability to align local interests, institutional discipline, and long-term capital.

Phoenix Capital was created to meet this specific need: to structure, secure, and execute complex strategic initiatives within a rigorous, credible, and effective governance framework.

This ambition is built on a first-rate human and organizational structure, designed to provide strategic depth, execution discipline, and deployment capability.

GENESIS / AXIS

MACC

The origins of this initiative date back to the initiative launched three years ago as part of the restructuring of the MACC project—the Community Carbon Market—at the request of the governors of the provinces in the Congo Basin.

This grassroots initiative had a clear goal: to ensure that forest communities were the primary beneficiaries of carbon credits generated from their land. Its original model was based on a fundamental insight: sustainable development can only be truly effective if it originates from the communities themselves.

A major effort to rethink and restructure the initiative was then undertaken in order to establish it within a legal, institutional, and financial framework capable of making it credible, governable, and financially viable. This restructuring enabled the coherent integration of forest communities, local leaders, provincial governors, and the Office of the President of the Republic through the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A major effort to rethink and restructure the initiative was then undertaken to establish it within a legal, institutional, and financial framework capable of making it credible, governable, and financially viable. This restructuring enabled the coherent integration of forest communities, local leaders, provincial governors, and the Office of the President of the Republic through the Social Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Completed in October 2024, this phase transformed a powerful local vision into a structured framework capable of aligning with national priorities and engaging with high-level institutional and financial partners.

GOLDCONNECT

Building on this initial experience, a similar discussion was initiated with SAEMAPE regarding the artisanal gold sector. Here too, the need was clear: to start from the realities on the ground, understand the cooperatives’ expectations, address the sector’s operational constraints, and establish a framework capable of formalizing an activity that is fragmented, suboptimal, and insufficiently secure.

It was against this backdrop that the GOLDCONNECT initiative was launched, conceived as a natural extension of the same philosophy as MACC, but this time applied to artisanal gold.

GOLDCONNECT was designed as a structured response to a twofold imperative. On the one hand, to enable the gradual and responsible industrialization of artisanal mining cooperatives through tools for standardization, traceability, and governance. On the other hand, to create the conditions for the emergence of a formalized, bankable, scalable gold supply chain that meets the requirements of international markets and can produce ethically sourced gold to be refined into Swiss investment bars.

It quickly became clear that MACC and GOLDCONNECT should not be viewed as two separate projects, but rather as the first two pillars of a single transformation strategy.

To structure the artisanal gold sector in a responsible, documented, compliant, and financeable manner within a qualified framework.

PHOENIX CAPITAL

IT WAS FROM THIS CONVERGENCE THAT PHOENIX CAPITAL WAS BORN.

Phoenix Capital was established to bring these initiatives together under a single framework for execution, financing, and value creation. The company was not conceived as yet another project-based firm, but rather as a true platform for structuring and execution, operating at the intersection of mining, environmental, logistics, and technology value chains.

DIGITAL STRUCTURING — REAL-WORLD ASSETS (RWAs) AND NON-MONETARY DIGITAL CONTRACTUAL INSTRUMENTS

Phoenix Capital was built around a clear vision: to transform strategic natural resources into real-world assets that are better organized, better governed, better traced, and, consequently, more transparent, controllable, and compliant for qualified institutional and financial partners.

This vision has been accompanied by extensive financial and technological structuring. To address the financing needs of grassroots development, Phoenix Capital, together with its FinTech partner Winstant Ltd., designed a digital representation framework for real-world assets that enables the documentation, traceability, and governance of community-based carbon and responsibly sourced gold within a contractual, non-monetary, and compliant framework.

SGRT — Non-Monetary Digital Contractual Instrument Linked to Future Gold Production

It is within this framework that the FCRT and SGRT were developed: two permissioned, traceable, and non-monetary digital contractual instruments designed to structure and document the progressive value creation of resources generated through the MACC and GOLDCONNECT initiatives.

The SGRT, in particular, is linked to future gold production under GOLDCONNECT. It does not constitute a currency, electronic money, a deposit, sovereign debt, a general-purpose payment instrument, or any guarantee of returns, redemption, or liquidity. Instead, it forms part of a governance, compliance, auditability, and traceability framework for real-world assets.

AXIS NATIONAL PROGRAM – FSRDC

However, such an ambition cannot be sustained over the long term without institutional support. With this in mind, Phoenix Capital, in partnership with the FSRDC – which already serves as the trustee and manager for the MACC and GOLDCONNECT initiatives – has helped establish the AXIS National Program.

AXIS provides this vision with a coherent framework for governance and implementation. It is not an additional program, but rather a national structuring framework designed to coordinate execution, align stakeholders, secure operational flows, strengthen traceability, support compliance, and ensure that strategic projects backed by real-world assets are properly documented and capable of being mobilized within a qualified institutional and financial framework.

OUR ECOSYSTEM

Thanks to the quality of the expertise it brings together and the strength of the partnerships it has forged, this ecosystem serves as a true operational arm supporting the AXIS National Program.

Together, these four pillars give Phoenix Capital a rare capability: the ability to transform a strategic vision into credible, structured, and sustainable execution.

Discover the four pillars of the Phoenix ecosystem.

The firm is built on a clear, agile, and disciplined organizational structure centered around Phoenix Capital and its operational entities.

Each responsibility is precisely defined.

Every interaction is designed to promote efficiency, coordination, and high-quality execution. This structure enables Phoenix Capital to combine rigorous governance, operational responsiveness, and long-term performance.

PHC

Phoenix Capital B.V.
Holding · Sint Maarten

1^st subsidiary

PHM

2^nd subsidiary

SGM

3^rd subsidiary

Magni AeroGroup

Minority

Interest

A top-tier executive team. Complementary areas of expertise. Over 300 years of combined experience.

This human capital gives Phoenix Capital a rare depth of insight, operational expertise, and ability to act.

Alain Lemieux

President Phoenix Capital

Serge Fortier

1st VP / Operations

Junior TCHITEYA

Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, AXIS Liaison and Strategic Development – DRC

Aurélien Garconnet

Executive Vice President – Strategic Intelligence, Security and Air Systems for the Group, General Manager of Magni Ops

Perry Geerlings

CEO

Marc Dunbar

CFO

Robert D. Geerlings

Head of Legal Affairs and Investment Strategies

Lorenzo de La Rochefoucauld

VP Communications and Strategic Partnerships

Flavien Rogeon

CSO

Fanny Salmon

Coordinator of the Phoenix Capital representative office in the DRC.

Julie Chaussé

Digital Experience & Social Media Manager

Sylvie Goulet

Assistant Director, CEMAR

Executive Director of Digital Platforms & Innovation for the Group

A high-level steering committee has been established to support this initiative. It brings together experts from the political, institutional, technical, technological, and scientific fields.

Its mission is to provide a broad perspective, strategic oversight, and sound judgment in assessing sensitive and complex issues.

Simon Tuma-Waku

Chairman of the Strategic Steering Committee

Jean-Claude Mabenze

Vice-President Relations with Provincial Governorates

Malo Mobutu

Vice President, Institutional Relations and National Partnerships

Gilles Klein

Expert in global geopolitics

Jean-Pierre Ferro

Security & Cybersecurity Expert

Stephen Davidson

Environment & Ecosystem Expert

Around this core, Phoenix Capital brings together a network of leading strategic partners.

As part of the Phoenix Ecosystem, they expand its capacity for action and strengthen its operational reach.

Winstant Ltd

Arethuse

Amarante Amérique Latine, filiale d'Amarante International

Groupe Infrastructure International

OUR PRODUCT / SGRT

The SGRT is presented as a Non-Monetary Digital Contractual Instrument (NMDCI) that is permissioned and fully traceable, linked to future gold production under the GOLDCONNECT initiative within the AXIS National Program. It is intended exclusively for qualified or institutional participants within a private, documented, and compliant framework. It does not constitute a public offering, a currency, electronic money, a bank deposit, sovereign debt, or a general-purpose payment instrument.

Any functionality relating to conversion, payments, liquidity, transactional use, MACC Pay, AXIS FLOW, DYME, or SGCT remains subject to the applicable contractual, technical, regulatory, and compliance requirements, including the qualification, non-objection, or authorization of the Central Bank of the Congo (BCC), where required. No return, redemption, liquidity, price, conversion, delivery, or carbon credit is guaranteed.

OUR NEWS

The African Development Bank supports
the AXIS Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Signing of a historic agreement with the Swiss refinery DBCH

Minerals: From yellow gold to green gold, the new value chains

Interview with Alain Lemieux, Philippe Ngwala and Papa Amadou Sarr on TV5 Monde

Appointment of Mathieu Schwartzenberg as Director of Environmental & Social Strategy, Head of Operations, MACC Project

Appointment of Junior Tchiteya as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, AXIS Liaison and Strategic Development – DRC

Speech by Alain Lemieux - Signing of the Axis Programme Framework Agreement

Signing ceremony of the Institutional Framework Agreement for the AXIS National Program

Magazine article : Valeurs Actuelles

Interview Alain Lemieux / Impact Magazine

TV Show Mines & Artisans

Meeting to harmonize views on the AXIS program
within the framework of the GoldConnect project.

PHOENIX CAPITAL B.V. selects the French group AMARANTE
to secure the operations of the AXIS National Program in the DRC

A new economic era in the DRC:
When gold and forests become tokens to finance development

Phoenix Capital B.V. announces a strategic partnership with Groupe Arethuse

Forests: French finance can be the catalyst for a historic shift

SAEMAPE officials being paid in SGRT

A Franco-Canadian alliance serving the green heart of Africa

Magazine Impact / FSRDC

Tribune Horizon Patrimoine

DRC bets on Quebec technology and Gold-Backed Digital Currency

IPEM Paris 2025

Phoenix Capital fuels Vertiko Mobilité's growth with cutting-edge GreenGold tokenized financing

L'Opinion

Lettre de l'Expansion

RDC : Le FSRDC et le SAEMAPE s’associent pour la tokenisation des ressources stratégiques communautaires

Le SAEMAPE et le FSRDC unissent leurs forces pour une révolution numérique dans le secteur minier artisanal

DRC's High-Tech AXIS Program with Phoenix Capital Sparks St. Maarten Interest

Media Congo

WinstantGold integrated into the national AXIS program: Winstant Limited, a key player in Congolese digital sovereignty

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