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 Chairman operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a Chairman 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.

Susan Hauser
Chairman Of The Board of Digital Asset
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About Prime Foray: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.

James Wo
Founder & Chairman of Digital Finance Group
James is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in the digital assets space who founded DFG in 2015, where he oversees over $1 billion assets under management. He is an early investor in companies like LedgerX, Coinlist, Circle, 3iQ. James is also an early investor and supporter of Polkadot and Kusama Network. He contributes substantially to the ecosystem through capital allocation, donations and actively supporting the Parachain Auctions. Additionally James serves as the board and committee member of Chamber of Digital Commerce and acts as Chairman at UAE Licensed Matrix Exchange.
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About Digital Finance Group, Jsquare: Diversified investment group that manages $1B in digital & blockchain assets across multiple funds, an incubator and global projects

Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of Cross River Bank
Gilles Gade is a founder of Cross River Bank (CRB) and has served as its Chairman, President and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles is steering CRB as an innovation-driven state-chartered bank and a provider of fully compliant financial solutions to the marketplace lending and payments sectors. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital including Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an MS in International Management.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.

Frederic Montagnon
Co-Founder & Chairman of LGO Group
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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About LGO Group: Building the next generation of financial exchanges.
John B. Ottman
Chairman & Co-founder of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.

Bradley Rotter
Chairman, Board Of Directors of IPwe
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About Entanglement Research Institute, Foundation for the Study of Cycles, IPwe: IPwe is a global innovation fintech platform company focused on enterprise/corporate assets.

Eric McDonald
CEO & Chairman of the Board of CoinLion
Eric McDonald is the CEO & Chairman of the Board at CoinLion.
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About CoinLion, Experity: CoinLion is a cryptocurrency exchange & portfolio management platform.
William Grecia
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Qondado, LLC – Digital Debit Group
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About Qondado, LLC – Digital Debit Group: Creators of Digital Debit, Cashlis and KodeKey

Mike Whelan
Co-Founder, Chairman of Fanpage
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About Fanpage: The boutique NFT platform bringing the metaverse to the masses – easy to buy(cc), easy to sell(OpenSea), and where Creators make more money.
Thomas Anderson
President & Chairman of the Board of DrawBridge Lending
Thomas Anderson is the MD Business Development – Prime Services at Galaxy Digital.
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About DrawBridge Lending: DrawBridge offers a lending loans with no margin calls backed by Bitcoin holdings.
Norman Rothstein
Chairman of Strategic Coin
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About Intellectual Digital Companies (iD, iDC, iDG, iDBB), Strategic Coin: The 1st Crypto Market Research Company Providing Education, Research + Token Launch Advisory.
Oleg Flaksman
Chairman of Blockchain and Crypto Mining Association
Oleg Flaksman is the Chairman of the Board and a co-founder of the Blockchain & Crypto Mining Association. He is the CEO of Blockchain Consultants, Inc a provider of facility buildouts, management, and operations. His first industrial mining operation launched in early 2017.
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About Blockchain and Crypto Mining Association: Supporting Blockchain Mining Through Education, Awareness, and Representation

Todd Gebhart
Chairman of PrivacyShell Corp
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About PrivacyShell Corp: We build crypto-blockchain startups that incorporate privacy & security by design.

Todd Gebhart
Chairman of PrivacyShell Corp
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About PrivacyShell Corp: We build crypto-blockchain startups that incorporate privacy & security by design.

Michael Gebert
Chairman of European Blockchain Association
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About Crowd Mentor Network, European Blockchain Association: European Blockchain Association focuses on blockchain-related activities such as startups, venture capitalists, and scientific institutes.
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