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 Director operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a 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.
Aya Miyaguchi
Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation
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About Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that helps developers to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.
Jeremy Lewis
Senior Director, NFT Acquisition of Crypto.com
Sr. Director, NFT Acquisition at Crypto.com & Host of Wild ‘Til 9 Podcast
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About Crypto.com, Wild ‘Til 9: Crypto.com is a payment and cryptocurrency platform that empowers users to buy, sell, and pay with crypto.
Denelle Dixon
CEO and Executive Director of Stellar Development Foundation
Denelle Dixon is the CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization using blockchain to unlock the world’s economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered. Before joining Stellar, Dixon served as COO of Mozilla, one of the most successful mission-driven open-source organizations. During her tenure at Mozilla, she led the organization’s business, revenue and policy teams including the ongoing fight for Net Neutrality and the global effort to ensure that people can control their personal data. She also pushed Mozilla to understand how to partner with commercial entities while staying true to its core mission of openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web. A lawyer by trade, Denelle previously served as a general counsel and legal advisor in private equity and technology. Throughout her career, Denelle has been a vocal advocate for net neutrality, encryption, the disclosure of vulnerabilities by governments, and greater user choice and control.
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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.
Andrea Lo
Sr. Director of Investments of Stellar Development Foundation
Profile from 2013: Andrea believes that regardless of a person’s educational background or socio-economic status, success can be achieved by those who think big, work hard, and persevere. She hopes that Piggybackr can inspire youth to learn those skills early on.
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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.
Lisa Nestor
Director of Partnerships of Stellar Development Foundation
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About Stellar Development Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research of Blockstream
Andrew has been programming computers since he was four years old and has taken an interest in cryptography since 13. Today he is a main developer of the libsecp256k1 high-performance ECC library as well as the sidechain Elements Alpha. Andrew became involved in the Bitcoin community in late 2011; in 2013 he began contributing to the high-performance cryptography library libsecp256k1 which underlies Bitcoin Core’s signature validation and signing. While completing his Masters of Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, he wrote and co-wrote several papers about Bitcoin, wrote the rust-bitcoin library, and contributed code and design to the sidechain Elements Alpha. In March 2016 he joined Blockstream full-time as a mathematician, where he continues to interact with the Bitcoin research community.
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
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.
Baek Kyoum Kim
Principal, Director of Investments of Hashed
Lead strategic investment initiatives at Hashed. formerly at AWS and co-founder of a logistics startup
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About Hashed: Hashed is the crypto assets fund and community builder.
Kathleen Osgood
Director of Market Development of Jump Capital
Kathleen Osgood currently works as the Director of Market Development for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Omnium Blockchain as the Founder and Executive Director.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Kristin Smith
Executive Director of Blockchain Association
Kristin is the Executive Director of the Blockchain Association, the Washington DC-based trade association representing the most prominent and reputable organizations in the crypto industry. The mission of the Blockchain Association is to improve the public policy environment so that blockchain networks can thrive in the United States. Kristin sets the association’s public policy strategy and leads engagement with industry and outreach to policymakers. Prior to leading the Blockchain Association, Kristin assisted blockchain and technology companies achieve their public policy objectives in Washington. She served as a Senate and congressional aide on Capitol Hill for nearly ten years, much of which was spent focusing on technology policy. She co-founded HODLpac and serves on the organization’s board of directors. Kristin is also featured on Fortune’s 2020 40 Under 40 list.
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About Blockchain Association: The unified voice of the blockchain industry.
Anna Bohm
Director of Operations 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.
Tavonia Evans
Director, Founder & CEO of Guap Coin
Tavonia Evans is the founder of GUAP Coin, a cryptocurrency created to boost black and community economics (marginalized communities globally). She is a self proclaimed “mompreneur” and technology specialist with almost 20 years of experience in development, business analysis, marketing, and startups. She is the Co-Founder of Safe2meet, a peer-to-peer reputation platform. She was featured in the Glamour May Money Edition entitled ” Meet The women of Cryptocurrency “ and Black Enterprise for her work in blockchain. She is an avid crypto-evangelist and believes that blockchain/cryptocurrency can open up a new world of financial opportunities for underserved and underprivileged people globally. She has spoken at Blockchain conferences worldwide and is very passionate about participating in projects that can further the humanitarian aspect of Blockchain.
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About Guap Coin: Guap Coin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created to promote economic growth and wealth.
Chjango Unchained
Director of Community Development of Tendermint
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About Tendermint: Tendermint brings simplicity, security, and speed to the world’s blockchains.
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.
Gene Hoffman
Director, Chief Operating Officer and President of Chia Network
Mr. Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and former public company CEO. He has built and sold three companies to PGP, Inc., Vivendi-Universal, and Amdocs. From 2003 to 2016 he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Vindicia, a consumer subscription infrastructure company sold to Amdocs in 2016. From 2017 to 2019 he was an advisor to the board of Chia Network until he joined the Company full time in August of 2019. He has been a board member at eight different technology and energy companies and serves on two non-profit boards, one of which he co-founded. He has 21 years of working in high compliance security environments with 12 years of managing PCI and SSAE-16 compliance for the storage of 220,000,000 credit cards. Hoffman has built and scaled companies in enterprise software and SaaS, consumer subscriptions, cryptography, and software development. He has raised over $155,000,000 in public and private markets, acquired four companies and sold three. In 1997, he helped end US export controls on cryptography while at PGP, Inc. by personally exporting the PGP Source Code book. Hoffman is co-inventor on several patents and is currently an Advisor at Directly, and Iris.tv. Recognized by the San Francisco Business Times with the “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award” in 2012, Gene has deep experience with building companies that disrupt markets. Prior to Vindicia, Gene co-founded eMusic in January 1998 and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. As head of eMusic, Gene was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a member of the July 1999 E-Gang, and named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in technology in Upside Magazine’s November 2000 Elite 100. Gene led the acquisition of eMusic by Vivendi/Universal in June 2001. Before founding eMusic Gene was Director of Business Development and Director of Interactive Marketing of Pretty Good Privacy. Gene joined Pretty Good Privacy after it acquired PrivNet, Inc., an Internet privacy software company, where he was co-founder, Director and Executive Vice President.
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About Chia Network: Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time.
Ian Crossland
Director 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.
Frank Chaparro
Director of News of The Block
Frank Chaparro leads editorial efforts for The Block, the go-to source of trustworthy information and news on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and decentralized technologies, as its senior correspondent. Chaparro started his career at Business Insider, where he specialized in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. He has received numerous accolades for his work and maintained the position as one of the most well-read fintech reporter through his time there, breaking stories on firms such as Fidelity, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Nasdaq. Soon after joining Business Insider out of Fordham University, Chaparro was interviewing top finance and tech executives, including billionaire Mark Cuban, “Flash Boys” star Brad Katsuyama, Cboe Global Markets CEO Ed Tilly, and New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley. In 2018, he become a sought after reporter in the crypto world, interviewing luminaries such as Tyler Winklevoss, the cofounder of Gemini, Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, and Fundstrat head Tom Lee. He joined The Block to dive deeper into his specialty and is responsible for investigating the most powerful figures and firms in the cryptocurrency market and unearthing market moving news.
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About The Block: The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
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.
Zach Dillman
Director of Sales Enablement and Strategy of Paynuity
Zach likes to start his bios with a short line. Then he lists some personal facts. Usually five. He uses these facts to convey something interesting about himself and tries to balance it with something self-deprecating. For example, Zach is the Sales Enablement and strategy guy at Paynuity a husband to his beautiful wife, a father of three incredible little boys, a fan of the Chicago Cubs, and has many hobbies, but is tragically average at all but two of them. Finally, he likes to tie it all together with a funny quote. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided.” – Casey Stengel
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About Paynuity: Payment Technology Platform
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.
Peter Lee
Us Operations Director of Relex
An ex-VP at JP Morgan, Peter has extensive experience in the areas of risk management and devising strategies to mitigate fraud. Peter has a proven track record of constantly adapting to any fluid environment, and building and leading high performance teams.
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About Relex: Relex is the world’s first cryptocurrency based real estate developer opportunity.
Max Arkey
Managing Director of Red Fog
Founded a fintech company that offers real-time cryptocurrency trading games to users around the world. Red Fog strives to help mature the asset class by lowering the barriers to entry for millions of new participants.
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About Red Fog: We are driven to help mature the crypto asset class through lowering the barriers to entry for millions of new participants.
Raina Casbon-Kelts
CXO, Director of Marketing & Business Development of Gilded
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About Gilded: Gilded aggregates crypto transactions from wallets, exchanges, and payment processors and syncs them to a company’s accounting system.
Michael Rosa
Founde, Investor and Board of Director of PAYMYNT Group
Michael Rosa is the Founder, Investor and Board of Director of PAYMYNT Financial.
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About PAYMYNT Group: PAYMYNT is a financial growth app that combines mobile commerce, investing, cash and crypto rewards all in one digital wallet.
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.
Timothy Suggs
Business Development Director of Tokenlab
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About Tokenlab: Token and ICO as a Service
Alek Tan
Director of InnoDT
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About InnoDT: InnoDT provides visibility and traceability into crypto transactions.
Matthew Wraith
Co-Founder and Director of IT of Bitnomial
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About Bitnomial: Bitnomial offers improved derivatives exchange technology coupled with new digital asset settlement systems.
Dan Scholz
Director, Business Development of Tanooki Labs
Digital Strategist, Social Technologist and UI/UX Designer
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About Tanooki Labs, Tanooki Labs: Tanooki is a web and mobile development company that works with businesses to understand and achieve their goals.
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