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This list showcases the top United States based Vice President operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Vice President 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.
Juan Pablo Bedoya
Vice President Product and Design of Civic
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About Civic: Civic is a blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Jeffrey Billingham
Vice President, Capital Markets of Chainalysis
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Regina Ingel
Executive Vice President Of Operations of Applied Blockchain
Regina Ingel is the Executive Vice President Of Operations at Applied Blockchain Inc.
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About Applied Blockchain: Applied Blockchain seeks to scale Ethereum and altcoin mining operations through strategic partnerships.
Sarang Kulkarni
Co-Founder & Vice President of Engineering of Boardwalktech
Prior to co-founding Boardwalktech, Sarang was involved in manufacturing process engineering, software development, and project management at Parametric Technolocy Corporation. Sarang has a BS in Mech. Eng from Pune University and a MS in manufacturing from UMass, Amherst.
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About Boardwalktech: Boardwalktech provides patented digital ledger technology for enterprise applications
Kevin Brown
Senior Vice President of Clarity PR
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About Clarity PR: Clarity delivers tech PR campaigns for the world’s most exciting technology startups.
Dave Otander
Vice President of ULedger
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About ULedger: ULedger is building the Generation 4 Data BlockChain to power every busines
Youngrok Kim
Senior Vice President, Investments of Recruit Strategic Partners
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About Recruit Strategic Partners: Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups.
Shingo Kato
Senior Vice President & Head of US Investment, Investments of Recruit Strategic Partners
With a background in software engineering and AI research, Shingo’s area of expertise is AI, IoT, and Robotics. He has also worked as a system engineer and, for seven years, was in technical sales, selling collaboration software such as Lotus Notes.
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About Recruit Strategic Partners: Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups.
Andrew Storms
Vice President, Security and Product of New Context
Andrew Storms is an Information Technology & Security executive with over 20 years of achievement delivering solutions that optimize performance, security, and efficiency for industry-leading companies. Andrew’s current work with New Context Services involves providing leadership in the areas of Information security and product development. He serves as a project lead for CES-21 – an initiative researching methods to perform automated cybersecurity threat detection and response within electrical utility operational networks. His past roles include Senior Director of DevOps at CloudPassage and Director of Information, Technology & Security at nCircle. He is a CISSP, a member of Infragard and a graduate of the FBI Citizens’ Academy and a member of the open standards technical committee for STIX,TAXII and OpenC2.
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About New Context: New Context is a provider of multi-cloud DevSecOps services to large enterprise, infrastructure and government cloud customers.
Bobby Tinsley
Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of SKUxchange
Bobby is a highly sought after advisor, entrepreneur, investor, and former recording artist who has helped inspire and impact organizations across the globe for over 18 years. He has a diverse skill set and background which includes expertise in marketing, sales leadership, organizational culture and performance enhancement, blockchain and partnership development. Bobby has negotiated major licensing agreements with well-known publishers such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, and advertising agreements with many of the largest REITs in North America including Simon Property Group, Westfield Group, and Brookfield Properties Retail Group (formerly GGP) to name just a few. His experience also includes work within the music and entertainment industry, specifically licensing content for television and film, and dealing in public relations and celebrity representation. His drive and unique business acumen began early in his career as a national music recording artist, and led to him achieving several charting singles internationally. In 2005, he became one of the few artists in US history to have an R&B-themed song chart on the Top-40 Christian Music Pop charts. Bobby thinks outside the box, and is the author of the book “The Difference – You Can Change the World.” This deep desire to make a difference and see others succeed has led him into philanthropic work, and strategic alliances with organizations that desire to do the same.
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About SKUxchange: SKUx is a Fintech company utilizing smart, secure, one-time use digital incentives to drive incremental spend to retailers.
Fox Holt
Vice President Of Business Development of Delphy Foundation
Fox Holt is currently leading the Delphy Foundation’s international expansion outside of China as Vice President of Business Development. Fox has a unique combination of sales, financial and technical experience working for large companies including GE, Morgan Stanley and more. Fox initially invested in and started following Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in 2013. Fox has spent the majority of his career commercializing new technologies both in large corporation such as GE’s IOT efforts to founding semiconductor startups from Cornell University. He is an international executive who has excelled at negotiating/closing large profitable contracts and partnering with all core business operations to increase the company’s foot print and expand global market shares. Mr. Holt graduated from Cornell University, with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics from Centre College.
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About Delphy Foundation: Delphy is an open-source, decentralized, mobile prediction market platform built on blockchain.
Nick Wassenberg
Vice President of Marketing of Fulcrum
Business-to-Business Growth Marketer. Leadership experience in growth strategies, demand generation, digital marketing, sales development, and data-driven growth planning.
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About Fulcrum: Fulcrum is a SaaS manufacturing platform designed & built from scratch to bring modern & futuristic concepts to mid-sized production shops.
Kate Lam
Vice President, Institutional Sales and Investor Relations of Propellr
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About Propellr: Propellr is a creation, management, and servicing platform for digitally held assets.
Cass Fuller
Vice President, Operations of Propellr
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About Propellr: Propellr is a creation, management, and servicing platform for digitally held assets.
Michael Smith
Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Operations of Voice Life
Michael Smith is the Co-Founder and the Vice President of Business Operations at Voice Life.
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About Voice Life: Voice Life is a technology company focused on the development, integration and application of delivering a FAST charge to mobile devices.
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