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 CEO’ operating in the Bitcoin 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.
David Moss
Co-Founder and CEO of StrongBlock
David Moss is a blockchain expert, keynote speaker and strategic advisor. He has the distinction of holding two prominent roles in the creation of EOS, the decentralized blockchain operating system: as SVP of Technology Operations at Block.One leading EOS technology development; and directing the EOS mainnet launch with the worldwide Block Producer community. Previously David was the founder of a technology and management consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, the founder of a predictive crowd analytics platform, the founding CIO of Edmunds.com, and President of an entertainment production company working with top international artists for major label and television networks.
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About StrongBlock: StrongBlock is a team of highly experienced blockchain, governance, security, and database technology experts.
Jesse Powell
Co-Founder and CEO of Kraken
Jesse Powell is an expert in virtual currencies, online/international payments and fraud, as well as co-founder and CEO of Kraken, the most trusted and one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world with no.1 EUR market share. He is a 15-year veteran of the virtual currency industry.
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About Kraken: Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 40+ other digital assets.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Sheldon Xia
Founder & CEO of BitMart
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About BitMart: BitMart is a digital asset trading platform that focuses on cryptocurrency.
Ryan Selkis
CEO & Co-founder of Messari
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG’s investing efforts.
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About Messari: Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Dan Morehead
Founder , Co-Chief Investment Officer & CEO of Pantera Capital
Dan Morehead founded Pantera Capital Management LP in 2003. He also co-founded and was CEO of Atriax, an electronic foreign exchange platform. Prior to that, he was head of macro trading and CEO at Tiger Management, global head of FX options at Deutsche Bank in London, and managed a global macro fund and derivatives trading units in North America and Japan at Bankers Trust. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as a mortgagebacked securities trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for an outstanding thesis. Pantera Capital is an institutional investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space. As CEO of Pantera Capital, Dan is actively involved in providing investors exposure to Bitcoin in addition to digital currency startups. Bitcoin represents a quantum shift in the global financial landscape and will fundamentally transform the way finance and commerce is conducted around the world.
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About Pantera Capital: Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, tokens, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency.
Bill Barhydt
Co-Founder and CEO of Abra
William (Bill) Barhydt (born in New York City) is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Abra, a new type of digital cash payments app and network enabling the transfer of cash between any two smartphones. Barhydt attended The Stevens Institute of Technology (BS, Computer Science, 1990) and has done graduate work (non-degree) at Stanford (Mathematics) and NYU (Finance.) After working for the CIA, NASA and Goldman Sachs, Barhydt decided to join Netscape working on telecom and Internet banking deals, mostly in Europe. After the AOL acquisition of Netscape Barhydt founded WebSentric. The technology for WebSentric exists today in SAP’s online portal service. Barhydt was CEO of KnowNow, VP Market Development for Plaxo and has been a Director or adviser to numerous start-ups including Meeting Maker, Ignite Racing, Particle Code, Sennari, Plaxo, Kopo Kopo and others. Barhydt co-founded m-Via, a mobile banking start-up in 2008, now part of Digicel. As a recognized expert in Internet and Mobile technologies Barhydt has presented at The World Economic Forum, The US State Department, The Mobile World Congress, TED, and many Internet and mobile technology conferences.
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About Abra: Abra is a digital wallet that makes it easy to access, manage, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies.
Ron Hose
Founder and CEO of Coins.ph
Ron Hose CEO of Coins.ph, a company that delivers financial services over mobile to people in Southeast Asia. Prior to coins.ph, Ron was the CTO of the video communication service [TokBox](/organization/tokbox). He co-founded the company with Serge Faguet in 2007. Most recently, Ron was a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital fund backed by [Eric Schmidt](/person/eric-schmidt). Ron graduated from Cornell University with a Masters degree in Computer Science.
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About Coins.ph: Coins.ph delivers financial services over mobile to people who are currently unserved by traditional banks.
Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Stephen Pair
CEO & Co-Founder of BitPay
Stephen has over 20 years of experience building software systems in the financial and telecommunications industries.
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About BitPay: BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations.
Jeremy Born
Founder & CEO of CoinGenius
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About CoinGenius, NFT Genius: CoinGenius is an advanced intelligence and analytics platform specifically intended for cryptocurrency traders.
Jai An
CEO & Co-Founder of TrustToken
Jai is the CEO and co-founder of TrustToken
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About TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Jennifer Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO of Tagomi
Jennifer Campbell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Tagomi.
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About Tagomi: Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Joshua Seims
CEO of TrustedCoin
After earning a Bachelors in Computer Science from Harvard, Joshua worked with Industrial Light and Magic and Seven. He then founded Hitplay, a platform for large-scale video distribution. He lives in San Francisco, with his wife and two daughters.
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About MetaStable Capital, TrustedCoin: TrustedCoin provides foundational APIs that make it easy to build higher-level services on top of the Bitcoin protocol.
John Karantonis
CEO of Geopay.me
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About Aiolos Holdings, Geopay.me, Hydrogen Innovations Co, iBlockchain Bank & Trust Technologies Co., Realbloc Holdings, Sustainability Creative Co.: Geopay.me, is a privately held US alternative payment network based on Blockchain technologies
Afnan Rahman
CEO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain, Dragonchain Foundation: Dragonchain offers users with the potential of blockchain through accessible, flexible, and secure platform.
Joe Dallago
Co-founder and CEO of Rain
Joseph Dallago is the Co-founder and CEO at Rain.
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About Rain: Rain is an operator and custodian of digital currency exchange intended to make digital transactions.
Neil Bergquist
Co-Founder and CEO of Coinme
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About Coinme: Coinme is a digital currency exchange on a mission to be the worlds trusted gateway to digital currencies and a better financial future.
Jude Regev
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jointer
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About Jointer: World’s first COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BACKED DeFi
Catheryne Nicholson
Co-Founder & CEO of BlockCypher
As co-founder and CEO of BlockCypher, Catheryne has decades of experience in software product management, product marketing, environmental & energy, and defense. Catheryne is an engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. She has built large-scale commercial software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for companies such as BlockCypher, MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. She graduated from the U.S Naval Academy and Stanford University and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MS in Environmental Engineering, a MBA, and is a registered PE in Mechanical Engineering.
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About BlockCypher: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Brian Hoffman
Co-Founder & CEO of OB1
Brian Hoffman is the CEO and co-founder of OB1.He also the Founder and CEO of OpenBazaar.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Alexander Leishman
Co-Founder and CEO of River Financial
Alexander Leishman is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the Engineer and Investor at Polychain Capital and the Security Software Engineer at Airbnb.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
David Bailey
CEO & Co-Founder of BTC Media
As Chief Executive Officer of BTC Media LLC, David Bailey is an industry leader in the digital currency and blockchain space. After founding yBitcoin, the world’s leading publication about digital currency, David launched BTC Media, a corporate group including Bitcoin Magazine (bitcoinmagazine.com), the world’s first information outlet and news desk dedicated to digital currency, and Distributed (Distributed.com), a leading source for banking and corporate information on distributed ledger technology.
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About Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Media, BTC Media, Distributed, UTXO Management, yBitcoin: BTC Media is Bitcoin media group, providing education and information through its family of products and services.
Sheffield Clark
Founder & CEO of CoinSource
Founder of CoinSource.
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About CoinSource: Coinsource makes buying and selling Bitcoin with cash easier and faster than ever with its state-of-the-art, proprietary software.
Alex Adelman
CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Marwan Forzley
CEO and Founder of Veem
Marwan Forzley is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Veem, a next-generation global payment provider that enables businesses to quickly and securely send and receive payments in local currency. Veem uses the blockchain as a new settlement rail to enable frictionless and inexpensive payments. Prior to Align Commerce, Forzley founded and served as CEO of eBillme, an online payment solution that extended online banking to the merchant’s checkout process. After selling eBillme to Western Union, Forzley joined the Western Union’s digital team as General Manager, eCommerce, and Strategic Partnerships. With extensive experience and expertise in eCommerce infrastructure, mobile payments, content delivery, and alternative payments, Forzley is one of the top entrepreneurs working to pioneer better payment systems.
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About Veem: Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.
Zach Harvey
Co-Founder and CEO of Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures
Zach Harvey is a co-founder of Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures, creator of the first Bitcoin ATM machine.
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About Lamassu Bitcoin Ventures: Lamassu jump-started the cryptomats industry by creating the world’s first Bitcoin ATM.
Meg Nakamura
Co-Founder and CEO of Apto Payments
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About Apto Payments, Hard Yaka: Apto Payments is a card issuance platform that helps companies issue new kinds of cards in new ways.
Andrew Lee
CEO & Cofounder of Purse
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About Purse: Purse provides real incentive to use Bitcoin to the largest selection at the lowest price points.
Victor Ciardelli
President, Founder & CEO of Guaranteed Rate
Victor Ciardelli, CEO and president of Guaranteed Rate is a mortgage banking innovator. In 1992, Victor headed a traditional mortgage company. Not satisfied with the existing model for mortgage companies, Ciardelli put his ideas for a modern, streamlined operation to the test and founded Guaranteed Rate in June of 2000. By offering consumers low rates and fees, and the ability to evaluate the total cost of a home loan, Guaranteed Rate became Chicago’s largest independent mortgage lender within 3 years. Today, Guaranteed Rate is one of the largest independent retail mortgage lenders in the U.S. and the third largest retail lender overall. In 2019, Guaranteed Rate Companies funded $37 billion in loans, helping hundreds of thousands of homeowners with home purchase loans and refinances. The company’s focus on being the leader in developing and employing industry-leading technologies and processes is propelling its growth. Guaranteed Rate Companies has over 6,000 employees in nearly 700 offices across the U.S., and is licensed in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. In addition to Guaranteed Rate’s consumer advocate approach to mortgage banking, its ability to partner with top producing real estate agents nationwide has contributed to the company’s light speed success in the mortgage industry.Victor was named “CEO of the Year” at the 2014 CityLights Awards, sponsored by the Illinois Technology Association, which honor the city’s most innovative tech leaders and companies. In 2012, Ciardelli was named the regional winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Guaranteed Rate has been featured in Crain’s Chicago Magazine’s list of the Largest Privately Held Companies seven years running and was recognized for having the largest increase in revenue growth for 2009—an astounding 80% increase. Guaranteed Rate has also been on the Crain’s Fast Fifty list of the fifty fastest growing companies in Chicago every year from 2007 to 2013. The company was also named as one of “Chicago’s Top Workplaces” by the Chicago Tribune annual survey in three of the past four years, was #1 in Scotsman Guide’s “Top Mortgage Lenders” rankings for 2019 and was awarded HousingWire’s 2020 Tech100 award for its industry-leading FlashClose technology. Mortgage Executive Magazine named Ciardelli as their 2013 CEO of the Year. In addition, he was named to the MPA Magazine 2013 “Hot 100” list of most influential people in the mortgage industry.
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About Guaranteed Rate: Guaranteed Rate provides mortgage lending services such as home loans and home mortgage refinancing services.
J.P. Thieriot
CEO of Uphold
J.P. Thieriot is Vice Chairman at Uphold. J.P. received a BA from Yale College.
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About Uphold: Uphold’s technology enables individuals and businesses to invest, exchange, spend and transfer currencies, commodities, equities, and more.
Jesse Proudman
Co-Founder and CEO of Makara Digital
Jesse Proudman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Makara.
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About Makara Digital, Strix Leviathan: Makara Digital is a cryptocurrency investing platform that offers a secure proprietary trading technology that was built for digital assets.
Cailen Sullivan
Founder & CEO of Zenbox
Cailen Sullivan is Founder & CEO at ZenBox.
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About Zenbox: Zenbox is a browser extension that connects all of your SaaS services.Open an email, and Zenbox pulls in your customer information from
Bruce Porter Jr
Chairman & CEO of GlobalBoost
Bruce Porter Jr. has brought together world leaders developing the digital landscape from Dubai to Washington, DC. Porter brings a solid track record. His name is synonymous with the Bitcoin monetary revolution. He is the CEO at GlobalBoost and Founder at Washington Elite.
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About DC Translation, Ducatur, GlobalBoost, PO8, Washingon Elite Summit, Washingon Elite Summit: GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY) is the 1st digital currency to use the powerful Yescrypt code as it’s POW.
Michael Dunworth
Chief Executive Officer of Wyre
Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.
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About The Daily Meme, Wyre: Wyre develops a wide variety of payment APIs that offer a fast and cost-effective way of transferring money.
Ioannis Giannaros
CEO and Co-founder of Wyre
Ioannis Giannaros Co-Founder of snapCard, Founder of ASPRO SEO, Exp. w/ both Enterprise (SafeNet) & Start-up (WebMechanix) Online Marketing.
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About Wyre: Wyre develops a wide variety of payment APIs that offer a fast and cost-effective way of transferring money.
Dendi Suhubdy
CEO of Bitwyre
Research Scientist, Founder
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About Bitwyre, Deep Technology Laboratories, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: Cryptocurrency Spot and Derivative Exchange
Victor Fang
Founder and CEO of AnChain.ai
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About AnChain.ai: AnChain.AI : Next Generation AI-powered Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering
Allison Clift-Jennings
CEO & Co-Founder of Filament
Allison Clift-Jennings is the CEO and Co-Founder at Filament.
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About Filament, Tonic Audio Labs: Filament builds blockchain hardware & software solutions for enterprise and IoT.
Steven Steiner
Founder & CEO of FreeBitcoins.com
Founder and CEO of FreeBitcoins.com & SnailsInTheMail.com.
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About FreeBitcoins.com: We are a Universal Income Company (UIC).
Chase Perkins
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
Founder & CEO of Impervious.ai
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About Impervious.ai, Thoughtly: Impervious is building Layer 3 of Bitcoin via IMP API – A programmatic layer for developing censorship-resistant, P2P streaming services.
Zooko Wilcox
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Zcash
Zooko has more than 20 years of experience in open, decentralized systems, cryptography and information security, and startups. He is recognized for his work on DigiCash, Mojo Nation, ZRTP, “Zooko’s Triangle”, Tahoe-LAFS, BLAKE2, and SPHINCS. He is also the Founder of Least Authority. He sometimes blogs about health science. He tweets a lot.
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About Zcash: Zcash offers payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain.
Brian Lio
CEO of Smith+Crown
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About Bright Iron Group, Smith+Crown: Smith + Crown, your home for research and analysis across the breadth of Bitcoin, blockchain technology, digital currency & cryptofinance.
Chris Yim
CEO & Co-Founder of LibertyX
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About Libertypay, LibertyX: LibertyX is America’s oldest and largest network of bitcoin ATMs, cashiers, and kiosks.
Christopher Brown
Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo
Christopher Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo & Modular & he attended Southern Methodist University in 2010.
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About Modular, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
Kevin Worth
CEO of CoinDesk
Kevin is the CEO of Coindesk.
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About CoinDesk: CoinDesk provides news and analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies, and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world.
Joe Vezzani
Founder and CEO of LunarCrush
Joe Vezzani is the CEO of LunarCrush and an advisory board member of the Above Market. Joe previously worked as a product and service design director at Innocean USA, as a co-founder at LifeLine Response, as an area sales manager at Owens Corning, as a production business manager at Draftfcb, and as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
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About LunarCrush: Social Intelligence for Crypto
Justin Seidl
Founder & CEO of Sequoir
Justin Seidl is the CEO of Sequoir and was previously the Head of Product at a boutique venture capital firm in Chicago that focuses on early-stage investments. Justin is well accustomed to launching US-based companies, has been involved in multiple acquisitions, and specializes in fintech.
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About Oink Bank, Sequoir: Sequoir is a financial technology firm providing Bitcoin trading APIs to power banks, credit unions, fintech, and the Web 3.0.
Dave Jevans
CEO of CipherTrace
Dave Jevans is a founder and CEO of CipherTrace. He has 20 years of experience in the security and payments markets. He is the holder of 17 US patents in cybersecurity, and has founded and sold three cybersecurity startups. In 2015, He sold mobile security pioneer Marble Security to Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT). Before Marble, he founded IronKey, which was acquired by iMation (NASDAQ: IMN). Previously He founded Receipt.com (acquired by Valicert NASDAQ: VLCT). He has held senior management positions at security companies Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) and Teros (acquired by Citrix, NASDAQ: CTXS). He also serves as the chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.APWG.org), a consortium of more than 1,500 government agencies, financial services companies, ISPs, law enforcement agencies and technology vendors dedicated to fighting electronic crime.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Zach Dexter
Co-founder & CEO of LedgerX
Zach Dexter is the CTO & Founder at LedgerX. He is an experienced software engineer, project manager and technology architect. Prior to this, Zach was Lead Software Engineer at Tutorspree, where he built out the full stack for an extensive set of internal tools and external-facing features. Zach received a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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About LedgerX: LedgerX, LLC develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies.
Tegan Gaan
Founder, CEO, Chief Product Officer of Ecoverse
Tegan monique gaan is the Head of Ideation & mTech Partnerships at Hifi Labs.
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About Ecoverse: Ecoverse provides eco-friendly proof of stake blockchain experiences.
Joseph Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Unchained Capital
Joseph Kelly is the Co-Founder & CEO at Unchained Capital.
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About Perfect Timing, Unchained Capital: Unchained Capital is a blockchain financial services company that lends cash to long-term crypto holders.
Asher Tan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CoinJar
Asher has a background in economics, formerly providing analysis to leading business magazines on company financial performance and the wider economy. He leads CoinJar – a successful AngelCube alumnus and Australia’s favourite bitcoin company.
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About CoinJar: CoinJar is an Australian bitcoin platform that enables the buying and selling of bitcoins and allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments.
Kirill Suslov
Founder and CEO of TabTrader
Kirill Suslov is the Founder and CEO at TabTrader.
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About TabTrader: TabTrader is the mobile crypto trading terminal.
Simon Yu
CEO & Co-Founder of StormX
Simon started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 19. After his family declared bankruptcy, he was forced to drop out of college at the University of Washington and find a full-time job to pay for rent and food. His full-time wage was still not enough for him to go back to school so he started selling Korean tacos out of his apartment to students studying late night on campus. The tacos went viral, and he was able to start a food truck with two friends after returning and graduating with a full-time scholarship. He quickly turned and scaled that business into a $500,000 business with ten employees in less than two years before joining Calvin at StormX. During his time at StormX, Simon has helped grow revenue more than 800%, user growth of 3000%, and raised funding to scale a small start-up started in a dorm room to a seven-person company. He is a visionary who is able to see the long-term potential in every aspect of scaling a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
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About CakeCodes, StormX: StormX is a Blockchain and micro-task company that provides crypto cashback.
Andre De Castro
Co-Founder, CEO & President of Blockchain of Things
Andre De Castro is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain of Things, Inc. He is a long-time crypto currency specialist who has an expert’s insight as to the field’s potential and is working towards making that potential a reality. Andre has been an active participant in the Bitcoin community and industry since 2010. Andre’s experience includes being a software developer, investor, trader, advisor, and US policy influencer. He is an avid public speaker and panelist for financial technology events including GE Global Research, Perkins Coie, Wedbush, and the NY Bitcoin Center. His early grasp of the unrealized potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize multiple sectors of the industry led him to found Blockchain ofThings in 2014, and drive the development of the Catenis EnterpriseTM platform. Graduating with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Andre earned a B.S. in Computer Science, with concentration in artificial intelligence. A prolific inventor, he is the holder of two U.S. patents that streamline the installation of electronic products in automotive circuits. Most recently, Andre was a keynote speaker at the Blockchain Summit in Beijing), The Blockchain Event in Las Vegas, Canaccord Genuity’s Annual Growth Conference in Boston, and the Blockchain World Congress in NYC.
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About Blockchain of Things: Blockchain of Things created the first globally accessible blockchain enabled device network.
Kevin McCoy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Monegraph
Kevin McCoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU and a practicing artist working and exhibiting internationally with his partner Jennifer McCoy. His artworks take many diverse forms including video sculpture and installation, photography, long-form film, curatorial practice and performance, kinetic sculpture and software-driven on-line projects. Thematically, his work explores changing conditions around social roles, categories, genres and forms of value. His primary research questions ask ‘What counts as new,’ ‘How is meaning established,’ and ‘How are cultural memories formed’. He has worked collaboratively with Jennifer McCoy for many years to try to answer what it means to speak together, often finding that experience outstrips available modes of presentation and discourse. To these ends their work has adopted many methodological approaches: exhaustive categorization, recreation and reenactment, automation, miniaturization, and most recently remote viewing and speculative modeling. In New York City, his work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, P.S.1, Postmasters Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, and Smack Mellon. International exhibitions include projects at the Pompidou Center, the British Film Institute, ZKM, the Hanover Kunstverien, the Bonn Kunstverein, and F.A.C.T. (Liverpool, UK). Grants include a 2002 Creative Capital Grant for Emerging Fields, a 2005 Wired Rave Award, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. Articles about his work have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Art News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek. Residencies include work at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. His artwork is represented by in New York by Postmasters Gallery and in Geneva by Gallerie Guy Bartschi and can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and MUDAM in Luxembourg. His teaching engages both undergraduate and graduate students in studio art and related arts professions and addresses practical and theoretical uses of digital media technology together with surveys of related theoretical and philosophical texts. The current semester’s coursework can be found at mccoyspace.com/nyu .
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About Monegraph, New York University: Monegraph is a platform that helps digital creators to construct licenses for the commercial use of their digital work.
Nate Whitehill
CEO of CryptoSlate
Nate Whitehill is an experienced technology entrepreneur, programmer and marketer. He has nearly two decades of experience building web applications. In August of 2017, he built and launched CryptoSlate, now one of the top destinations for crypto news and data. Over the past 2 years, CryptoSlate has become the 6th crypto news site in the world by Alexa ranking, serving over 300,000 visitors per month.
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About CryptoSlate: CryptoSlate is a hub for cryptocurrency researchers and blockchain enthusiasts — featuring news, prices, a product database and events.
Skye Elijah
Co-founder and CEO of CoinBeyond
Tech entrepreneur seeking solutions to problems facing the bitcoin community. Co-founder and CEO of CoinBeyond.
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About CoinBeyond: Modern Payment Processing, Simplified.
Michael Sonnenshein
CEO of Grayscale Investments
Michael Sonnenshein joined Grayscale Investments in January 2014. As Director of Sales & Business Development, Michael is responsible for maintaining relationships with the firm’s various service providers as well as overseeing the sales of the Bitcoin Investment Trust (symbol: GBTC), Ethereum Classic Investment Trust, and Zcash Investment Trust. He also plays a key role in educating banks, hedge funds, family offices, and other institutions on the merits of the digital currency asset class. Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions. He also worked in a similar capacity at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. Michael earned his Bachelors of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He holds his Series 7 and 66 licenses.
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About Grayscale Investments: Grayscale Investments believe that digital currencies will revolutionize our legacy economic, political, and social systems.
Haohan Xu
Founder & CEO of Apifiny
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About Apifiny, Roxe: A global digital asset trading network unifying fragmented markets, providing superior liquidity and trade execution for professionals.
Wayne Vaughan
Founder & CEO of Tierion
Founder at Coindera
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About Coindera, Fusient, Fusient, Tierion: Tierion provides an engine for collecting data and recording it in the blockchain.
Tyler Scott Ward
Co-Founder and CEO of BarnBridge
Tyler Scott Ward is a Co-Founder and CEO at BarnBridge.
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About BarnBridge: Tokenized risk protocol
Serra Wei
Founder & CEO of Aegis Custody
Serra Angel Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor and entrepreneur with a blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. Ms Wei has worked with Goldman Sachs, Passport Capital on building investment strategies, structuring M&A deals, cryptocurrency trading and custody solutions.
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About Aegis Custody: Digital asset custody company offering a hybrid hardware-software solution with state-of-the-art security standards.
Eric Grill
CEO of ChainBytes
Eric has been a software developer and entrepreneur for the last 15 years. He started working with Blockchain technology in earnest back in 2012. Quickly realizing the potential of this relatively new technology, he immersed himself in mining, software developing and advocating for Blockchain and Bitcoin as a new means of e-commerce.
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About ChainBytes: ChainBytes is offering solution for companies for Blockchain software development services, including integration of Blockchain technology.
Mike Belshe
Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo
Mike Belshe Is The Co-founder and CEO at BıtGo.
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About BitGo, Lookout Software: BitGo is the leader in institutional digital asset financial services, providing clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
Edan Yago
Founder and CEO of Sovryn
Experienced entrepreneur and seasoned veteran of the digital currency world. Yago is CEO & Founder of Epiphyte, the leading company helping banks integrate with distributed ledgers. Yago has a wealth of experience in the digital asset space. He has led digital currency initiatives at Zynga and is a founding member of DATA, the leading digital asset industry regulatory body. Yago is an angel investor and advisor to several Bitcoin companies and is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the space.
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About CementDAO, Sovryn: Sovryn is a Bitcoin-based decentralized trading and lending platform.
Jake Benson
CEO & Founder of Lukka
Jake Benson is the CEO and Founder of Lukka. Lukka is the first comprehensive tool for calculating capital gains taxes across multiple digital currencies. Previously an IT consultant for Capgemini, Jake’s background is in implementing SAP Payroll systems for global Fortune 500 companies and designing custom interfaces between SAP with 3rd party software. Benson’s startup is the first investment made by CrossCoin Ventures (in association with Ripple Labs). He left his job at Capgemini to focus full time on Libra, “I built this because the onus of being a good citizen and a responsible taxpayer can be especially burdensome for digital currency holders right now given the confusion over how to define digital currency. The pain point around that confusion, though, is ultimately felt by people, not the currency. LibraTax will eliminate much of the anxiety currently felt by those transacting in digital currency.” In the near future, Libra will offer a suite of products that serve the needs of businesses for tracking sales tax and payroll tax for digital currencies.
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About Lukka: Lukka is a software company that delivers middle and back-office solutions for the crypto-asset ecosystem.
Alex Karis
CEO and Co-Founder of DigitalX
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About DigitalX: DigitalX is an Australia-based software solutions company developing products and services.
Tae-lim Oh
Chief Executive Officer of Gluwa
Founder at Gluwa
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About Gluwa: Gluwa builds a borderless financial platform for people to live better together.
Max Galka
Co-Founder and CEO of Elementus
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About Elementus, Metrocosm: Elementus offers a analytics platform that brings cognition to the blockchain’s native transparency.
John T. Perrone
President & CEO of BitWallet
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About BitWallet: BitWallet is a high-security cryptocurrency wallet and exchange for both individuals and businesses.
John Lee
Co-Founder & CEO of SZNS
John Lee is the Co-Founder of SZNS.
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About SZNS: SZNS is the NFT fragmentation service platform for collectors, curators, and creators.
Igor Telyatnikov
Co-Founder, CEO of AlphaPoint
Igor has over 15 years of experience in building, operating, and investing in financial services, security, and media technology firms. Prior to AlphaPoint, Igor served as Managing Director of Cvetlo, an early stage venture firm making investments in fintech, adtech, and online media. Prior to Cvetlo, Igor led West Coast Business Development for LiftDNA, a digital ad exchange platform focused on managing online publisher ad revenue by making real-time pricing predictions for over 10 billion Ads Per Month. LiftDNA was acquired by OpenX, a global leader in digital and mobile advertising, in 2012. Previously, he held multiple roles over 5 years in the Security Technologies and Systems Integration divisions of Ingersoll Rand (TICKER: IR) / Allegion (TICKER: ALLE), where he drove adoption of new security technologies.
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About AlphaPoint: AlphaPoint is a white-label software company powering crypto exchanges worldwide.
Paul Snow
CEO of Factom
Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Inventor of the Factom protocol and a co-founder of Factom Inc., Paul has spent 30+ years writing compilers, interpreters, protocols, and rules engines. An early adopter of Bitcoin, he organized Passing Bitcoin Around the World in 2013, a stunt highlighting the speed at which value can be exchanged around the world. He continues to run meetups, speaks, and even testifies before Congress about Bitcoin and crypto technology.
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About Factom: Factom, Inc. is a blockchain innovations company providing blockchain as a service platforms.
Drew Hingorani
CEO of Ai-Blockchain
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About Ai-Blockchain: Ai-Blockchain, an artificial intelligent blockchain, offers forefront security on a distributed system for contract lifecycle management.
Dan Tsui
CEO of Kyokan
In past lives, Dan was a Software Engineer at LePort Labs, where he built internal tools for modern, tech-enabled “smart” Montessori schools. Before starting Kyokan, he was a Senior Software Engineer at BlacklightCMS building rapid domain provisioning and site-building tools for direct response marketers. We’re often hiring and accepting new clients: please direct all business inquiries to [email protected].
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About Kyokan: Making blockchain accessible to everyone on earth.
Jonathan Solomon
Co-Founder & CEO of DigitalMint
Jonathan Solomon is the co-founder and CEO at Digital Mint.
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About DigitalMint: Bitcoin ATM and Point-of-Sale Integration Network
Bernie Rihn
Founder & CEO of Hashplex
After 4 years at Microsoft working on (all three) Surface(s) and building his own custom FPGA miner and industrial control systems in his “20% time,” Bernie is ready to build something valuable and enduring. Prior to Microsoft, Bernie studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford.
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About Hashplex: Hosting Designed & Purpose-Built for Bitcoin Miners & Bitcoin Mining.
Amith NIrgunarthy
CEO & Founder of Blockstreet™
Bitcoin Business Person
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About Blockstreet™: Institutional-level Cryptocurrency News & Data with Precision and Speed.
Ann Camarillo
Chairman & Group CEO of MobiCash
After retiring from MasterCard, Ann Camarillo became committed to empowering people around the globe with new financial services. Over the course of a successful 20-year career at MasterCard Worldwide, Ann held various leadership positions in the United States and globally. As U.S. EVP, Ann was responsible for the financial contribution of all products and services and for creating and implementing next generation revenue streams. Ann also served in Belgium as Global CEO of Maestro International and Cirrus, the largest global debit card POS and ATM networks. She created the award winning Debit Centre of Excellence and managed the Global Debit Advisory Board empowered with responsibility for all debit and prepaid strategy, policies, financial performance and investments. She has enjoyed a wide range of experiences including operations, technology, sales and marketing. Prior to joining MasterCard, Ann held marketing and sales management roles at LDXNet/WilTel (fiber optic telecommunications), AT&T and Southwestern Bell. A native of St. Louis, Ann earned her undergraduate degree there at Fontbonne College, and her Masters in Business Administration from St. Louis University.
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About MobiCash: MobiCash is a multi-accessible financial transaction platform that offers secure and accessible banking and payment services.
Tyler Roye
Co-Founder & CEO of eGifter
Tyler Roye is the CEO at eGifter .
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About eGifter, LISTnet.org: EGifter is a web and mobile application that enables its users to purchase gift cards and send them to other users.
Josh Quittner
Chief Executive Officer of Decrypt
Josh Quittner is the Chief Executive Officer at Decrypt Media.
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About ConsenSys, Decrypt: Decrypt is a media platform that focused on stories from culture, technology, business, education, politics, art, and the latest news.
Beka Kemertelidze
Co-Founder/CEO of CityPay.io
Beka Kemertelidze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Citypay.io.
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About CityPay.io: Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway for any Type of Businesses
Hans Olsen
CEO of Alydian
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About Alydian: Alydian is a portfolio company of CoinLab, the first venture-backed Bitcoin company in the U.S.
Joseph Fargnoli
CEO / Founder of Run2Play
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About AVA Foundation, Run2Play: Run2Play is redefining exercise into a game by creating the next platform for mobile, augmented reality, and virtual reality fitness.
Jesse Fischer
CEO & Co-founder of Tashe
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About Tashe: Tashe offers cryptocurrency and fiat money liquidation services.
Michael Nilan
CEO of BCB Community Bank
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About BCB Community Bank: BCB Community Bank is the wholly-owned subsidiary of BCB Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCBP).
Lisa Reardon
CEO & Chairman of OwnersEdge
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About CC&N, OwnersEdge: OwnersEdge is an ESOP holding company that strives to invest in and build sustainable companies throughout the Midwest.
Dean Linden
Chief Executive Officer of Luxxfolio
Dean Linden is the Chief Executive Officer at Luxxfolio.
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About Luxxfolio: Luxxfolio utilizes a secure permission-based technology, record keeping, and other trust-based authentication.
Joshua Riddle
CEO / Co-founder of Bitsie
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About Bitsie: Bitsie’s mission is to help organizations understand and leverage Bitcoin to foster commerce, increase profits, and reach new markets.
Gareth MacLeod
Founder & CEO of Tinker
Gareth MacLeod is the Founder and CEO at Tinker.
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About Tinker: Tinker is a technology company that builds trading algorithms for a variety of digital assets such as Bitcoin.
Anari Sengbe
Founder & CEO of Gamerholic
Anari Sengbe came to the United States from Sierra Leone, and is the founder of gaming startup Gamerholic, which lets users earn bitcoins for winning online games.
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About FoodHigh.Club, Gamerholic: Gamerholic is a site that awards people with bitcoins and gamerholic coins for playing video games.
Celso Pitta
Founder and CEO of BTCjam
Celso Pitta is the Founder and CEO of BTCJam.
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About BTCjam: With $11 million dollars in loan volume and growing, BTCJam has served more than 100,000 users from over 200 countries.
Dirk Schmidt
CEO of MyMoneyEx
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About MyMoneyEx: A Fully-Functional & Diversified Financial Platform
S P
CEO of Virtual Coin Box
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About : Virtual CoinBox connects buyers who want to spend digital currencies with sellers who do not have the means to accept them.
Mario J. Lucero
Cofounder, CEO of Heaven Sent Gaming
Mario J. Lucero is the cofounder, CEO, and lead designer at Heaven Sent Gaming. He started the team in 2006 with his girlfriend, and now wife, Isabel Ruiz Lucero. His parents divorced while he was young, and he is the only son of Cathleen, alongside two sisters. He lived with his mother until his grandparents retired, while he was a pre-teen, and from then on he was raised by his grandparents, retired trucker Joe M. Lucero and Antonia “Toni” Lucero. Mario began to date Isabel Ruiz in 2004, while they attended high school at a Seventh-day Adventist Church owned private school called Sandia View Academy in Corrales, a rural agricultural village near Albuquerque. While attending private high school he did various work with the Christian radio broadcasting network LifeTalk Radio. He attended college for Computer Science, but dropped out in order to become the primary caregiver for his grandparents while they were suffering through dementia. source: http://www.conservapedia.com/Mario_J._Lucero summarized using http://smmry.com/ List of works: *Writer on the following comics; Reverie, Thad’s World Destruction: Before Destruction, Karis, BladeChick, and Mouton. *Game designer on the following games; Balance and BitDonate. *Musician; “Intro, Yo”. *Sound producer; Life Never Lost’s “All We Are” and Spiritual Speeches “President Obama Eulogizes Reverend Clementa Pinckney” *Writer on the following novels; Many: The Blog Of A Space Probe, Craft, and Iron. *Film producer; Mario’s vlog and HSGplays. *Lead contributor on the following websites; aywv and Cultural Encyclopedia and Lexicon of New Mexico. translated from https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BBJ%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AD
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About Heaven Sent Gaming: Heaven Sent Gaming is an American multimedia production studio and publisher from Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 2006.
Larry Harmon
Chief Executive Officer of Coin Ninja
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About Coin Ninja: Coin Ninja is a bitcoin startup in Akron Ohio.
Larry Harmon
Chief Executive Officer of Coin Ninja
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About Coin Ninja: Coin Ninja is a bitcoin startup in Akron Ohio.
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