At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Australia based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Adrian Przelozny
CEO & Founder of Independent Reserve
Adrian is the CEO and co-founder of Independent Reserve, one of Australia’s most established cryptocurrency exchanges. He has contributed significantly to driving growth in the fledgling industry. Over the last 5 years, Adrian has developed and evolved Independent Reserve to serve over 100,000 Australian clients.
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About Independent Reserve: Independent Reserve is a Bitcoin and Digital Currency exchange.
Chingun Erdene-Ochir
Chief Executive Officer of Lingo Ledger
Legendary Unicorn
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About Lingo Ledger, Sydney Blockchain Centre: The world’s largest marketplace to find Interpreters and Translators
David Mah
CEO of Wagerr
David’s first career, as a physician in Australia, developed in parallel with his avid involvement in digital currency development. He has been working with digital currency since 2013. Today, blockchain technology is his full time focus. He is passionate about directing the power of blockchain technology to improve lives and promote equality. Before David started Wagerr, he had been an active team member on the Darcrus Project, focusing on secure decentralized data replication. When not working on Wagerr, David enjoys weekends out at the park with his wife and four children.
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About Wagerr: Wagerr uses distributed blockchain technology company focused on a new way to execute betting contracts.
Alexander de St. Amatus
CEO of United Scientists Association of Technology
Specialising in capital raising, Alexander is a veteran businessman and management consultant expert. With over a decade of business experience across a diverse range of sectors, Alexander has held positions on the board of directors for many different companies over the years and uses his broad experience to expertly navigate through any problem or opportunity.
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About United Scientists Association of Technology: USAT is an australian organisation utilising blockchain-enabled technology to store, fund, develop & commercialise intellectual property.

Emma Poposka
CEO/Director & Business Tech of bron.tech
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About bron.tech: bron.tech is a company that specializes in decentralized infrastructure for data sharing and identity management.
Naby Mariyam
Founder/CEO of Coverhero
Naby Mariyam is Founder and CEO of Insuretech Startup Coverhero. Coverhero’s mission is to deliver relevant, hyperpersonalised coverage in moments that matter to Millenials lifestyle. We call this moment based coverage for lifestyle and wellbeing. Coverhero is one of the most innovative insurtechs in Australia and New Zealand to watch for in 2018. Coverhero was part of the Qantas Avro Accelerator program. Coverhero was one of the 15 start-ups that got on first ever Tech Crunch start-up Battlefield In Australia. Naby Has 20 years of experience in research, Education, Management consulting and start-ups in the last 5 years. She Represented Australia at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit in Berlin 2017. She is an advocate for Diversity of thought in technology and women in leadership.
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About Coverhero: We deliver relevant, hyperpersonalised coverage in moments of need for your lifestyle and wellbeing.
Katryna Dow
CEO & Founder of Meeco
Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco, a world leading data independence start-up in the emerging personal data economy. Meeco is a Personal Data Platform that connects people to their digital services, data and devices. Meeco enables individuals to manage, share, provide consent and exchange their identity and personal information for mutual value via The API-of-Me. Meeco was founded in 2012 and conceived over a decade ago, as social networks were on the rise. Katryna envisioned a time when personal sovereignty and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now a decade later, personal clouds, mobile technology, AI, Internet-of-Things and regulation such as the GDPR and PSD2 have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary. She speaks globally on privacy and data innovation and currently serves on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair for the new P7006 – Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent
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About Meeco: Meeco is building a personal data ecosystem of equals, with distributed ledger tools for people & organisations to create mutual value
Peter Hewett
CEO of Quixxi
Sales driven leader with a history in market leading Information technologies, and a proven track record of growing both sales and business while hitting revenue quota. With over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the Information Technology market, with the last decade focused in security. Qualified in SPIN selling, marketing strategy, project management and ITIL, started career in technical roles before moving on to sales engineering, solution sales, sales leadership and then business management roles.
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About Lakeba Group Pty Ltd, Quixxi: Quixxi
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