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 United States based Managing Director operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Don Ho
Managing Director of Quantstamp
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About Pioneer Fund, Quantstamp: Leaders in Blockchain Security
Don Wilson
Managing Director of Digital Asset
Donald R. Wilson, Jr. is the founder and CEO of DRW, a principal trading firm with more than 800 employees across offices in Chicago, Austin, Houston, London, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Singapore. Don started in the industry in 1989, focusing on capturing opportunities in the markets through technology, research and risk management, and founded DRW in 1992 while trading in the Eurodollar options pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. DRW has since expanded into real estate, cryptoassets and venture capital as part of its trading portfolio. Don is an influential leader in the financial futures industry and in 2010 founded the FIA Principal Traders Group. He is co-founder and board member of Eris Exchange, a designated contract market which trades an interest swap futures contract, and is the co-inventor of the Eris Exchange’s intellectual property. He is co-founder and board member of Digital Asset Holdings, a company which leverages distributed ledgers, such as the blockchain, to improve the settlement of financial instruments. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Chicago, where he is now a trustee. He also sits on the board of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation. An avid competitive sailor, Don is the founder of the Chicago Match Race Center and chairman of Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Chicago.
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About Digital Asset, DRW, DRW Venture Capital: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Sunil Hirani
Managing Director of Digital Asset
Sunil Hirani was the Founder of TassatPay and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at trueEX. He finished his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a B.S. from Washington University.
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About Digital Asset, TassatPay, trueEX: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Ed Roman
Managing Director of Hack VC
Managing Director at Hack VC.
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About AngelList, Hack VC: Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors.
Philip Seligmann
Managing Director, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of MakeCents
40 years in international trade and finance, supply chain management technology for use in a wide variety of asset classes with a focus on commodities: unfinished/semi-finished/finished products from production to distribution.
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About MakeCents: MakeCents provides a blockchain platform for the payments industry.
Mike Nugent
Managing Director of Vestigo Ventures
Prior to founding Bison, Mike held senior roles at SVG Advisers, LP Capital Advisors and HarbourVest Partners, and has >$3B in private market commitments to his credit. Mike started his career in the public markets with the NASDAQ Stock Market, and also gained significant operating experience while running operations for a textiles manufacturer. He received his MBA from Boston College, and his BA from St. Bonaventure University. Mike lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.
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About Vestigo Ventures: Vestigo Ventures is a Seed and Early-stage FinTech focused VC firm.
Ian Sheridan
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vestigo Ventures
Ian Sheridan sharp vision and entrepreneurial instincts have ignited rapid and continuous growth for the host of companies he’s spearheaded to success. His career has been built on a long record of delivering strong and sustainable results. At MassMutual Financial Group, he was instrumental in creating a plan that nearly tripled assets and invented the industry’s first wireless retirement plan enrollment technology. At DST Systems, he launched the industry’s first middleware solution for retirement income. While at ADP, Sheridan created a plan that grew assets under management tenfold.
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About Vestigo Ventures: Vestigo Ventures is a Seed and Early-stage FinTech focused VC firm.
Charley Cooper
Managing Director of R3
Charley leads external affairs globally for R3, covering regulatory affairs, communications and public relations. Most recently, Charley worked as the Chief Operating Officer of State Street Global Market’s division of Trading and Clearing, before which he served as the Global Head of Legal Operations in the risk management division of Deutsche Bank AG. Charley spent over two years as the Chief of Staff /Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and served as Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon. In recognition of his service, Cooper was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service in May 2005. He has earned both a B.A. (Government) and a J.D. from Georgetown University.
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About R3: R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
Jonah Bolden
Founder/Managing Director of Bolden Ventures
Jonah Bolden is an Australian/American professional basketball player who currently plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With an avid passion for open-source technology, he believes in the adoption of Blockchain technology for the revolutionary potential it has to empower society. Jonah is also a Blockchain and Web 3.0 investor.
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About Athletes Block Capital, Bolden Ventures: Bolden Ventures is a private equity firm that specializes in open-source technology, health and wellness brands, and computer science.
David Speiser
Managing Director of Clarity PR
David Speiser is the founder of DRSmedia, a strategic marketing and media relations firm based in Silicon Valley. David has been engaged in technology marketing, PR and media relations for most of a decade. His focus is on media relations in the consumer technology space, and strategic marketing for consumer technology products and services. David works with technology writers, television reporters, producers and analysts in the technology blogging world, mainstream press, traditional print media, television journalists and more. David’s work in technology began in 2005, as the first employee at Sticky Inc., a software company focused on removable devices (like USB flash drives). In 2007 Sticky was acquired by DeviceVM Inc. (now Splashtop Inc.), developers of Splashtop, the instant-on OS. At Splashtop, David became the director of marketing and PR, and helped launch their Splashtop software. In 2008 David transitioned into full time strategic marketing and media relations work as a founding employee at Stage Two, a marketing firm based in San Francisco. At Stage Two David helped launch dozens of companies and products, and been directly responsible for press coverage in publications ranging from the New York Times to CNN to NPR and the Wall Street Journal. In June of 2010 David started a new marketing and PR agency, DRSmedia.
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About Clarity PR: Clarity delivers tech PR campaigns for the world’s most exciting technology startups.
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