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 President operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a 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.
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Steven Becker
President and COO of MakerDAO
Steven Becker is President and COO of the MakerDAO Foundation. MakerDAO is a unique dApp that generates Dai, the world’s first decentralized stablecoin that facilitates economic growth on the blockchain and economic empowerment with the blockchain. Steven is responsible for the strategic business operations, risk management, partnerships, and marketing. An alternative investment professional with 20 years of experience. Steven is Chartered as an Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) by the CAIA Association and certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is a member of both associations.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
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.
Allen Piscitello
Vice President Of Product Management of Blockstream
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
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.
Saaya Nath
Vice President of Jump Capital
Saaya Nath currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Boston Consulting Group as an Associate.
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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.
Tarun Gupta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Tarun Gupta currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. He previously worked at Scientific Games as the Manager.
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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.
Shanav Mehta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Shanav Mehta is the Vice President at Jump Capital.
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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.
Adam White
President of Bakkt
Adam White is the President of Bakkt.
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About Bakkt: Bakkt is a trusted digital asset platform that enables its customers to buy, sell, spend, send, and redeem digital assets.
Karana Ellis
Co-founder/President of Cascadia Carbon
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About Cascadia Carbon: Building CODEX: A carbon-neutral blockchain cryptocurrency for carbon offset generation and storage
Benny Nachman
CEO, Founder & President of Jassby
Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues.
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About Credorax, Jassby: Jassby is a mobile payment system designed for families, kids, and teens.
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.
Perianne Boring
Founder and President of Chamber of Digital Commerce
Perianne Boring founded the Chamber of Digital Commerce building it into the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. Perianne was named among CoinDesk’s “10 Most Influential People in Blockchain 2016” and “Top Woman in Bitcoin 2015” by a leading industry publication for her public policy accomplishments. Perianne is a communications expert and avid public speaker. She has presented at leading industry events including the Consumer Electronic Show (“CES”), Money 20/20, South by Southwest and many others. She also contributes to Forbes through her column, “The Beauty of the Blockchain.” Prior to forming the Chamber, Perianne was a television host and anchor of an international finance program that aired in more than 100 countries to over 650 million viewers. Ms. Boring began her career as a legislative analyst in the U.S. House of Representatives, advising on finance, economics, tax and healthcare policy. Perianne graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics. Raised in Florida, she currently resides in Washington, DC.
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About Chamber of Digital Commerce: The Chamber of Digital Commerce is the world’s leading trade association representing the digital asset and blockchain industry.
Alex Treece
Co-Founder, President of Zabo
Alex Treece is the co-founder of Zabo. Zabo is full bank with support for cryptocurrency. Zabo offers: – A full bank account: checking, savings, debit card, direct deposit, and more – Bitcoin and Ether wallets – Cryptocurrency exchange: buy and sell your crypto inside your bank account
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About The University of Dallas, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
Aaron Voisine
President of BRD
Founder at breadwallet
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About BRD: BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software.
Peter Bordes
Vice President, Events & Sales of CoinDesk
Peter Bordes is the Head of Events & Sales at Messari.
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About CoinDesk, Messari, Stetson Real Estate: CoinDesk provides news and analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies, and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world.
Tom Karren
President & Co-Founder of Neuryx
Tom’s extensive experience as a tech entrepreneur is augmented by his technical education and savvy. His accomplishments include co-founding, growing, & exiting WingateWeb (an enterprise software company), founding a development studio (mCubedLabs), founding a mobile device management platform (Moki), and advising numerous tech startups. As a serial entrepreneur at heart, Tom’s experience includes founding mCubedLabs, and WingateWeb. He is also an associate founder and board member at the BYU Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
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About Neuryx: Neuryx builds technology for cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
Arturo Morales
Executive Vice-President of Htmlcoin
Experienced in Marketing and Fundraising Campaigns for Non-Profit Oranizations with an emphasis in social media platforms. Skilled in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Marketing Campaign Specialist, Internet Marketing Consultant, Coaching, Public Speaking, Management, and Leadership. paid search marketing, blog implementation, link-building, etc. with no hand-holding. Develop insightful, thorough recommendations to improve technical, design, content, on-page and off-page optimization elements. Strong accounting professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused in Sociology from Brigham Young University.
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About Htmlcoin: HTMLcoin is a cryptocurrency with a secure blockchain based on Bitcoin Core that integrates Ethereum based smart contracts.
Ken Huang
President of THEKEY
Huang Lianjin(Ken) , Huawei VP, Chief Blockchain Scientist and Chief Identity Management System Architect, CISSP, Commit Member of ACM, Chinese Electric Academy Blochchain Expert Committee Member, Visiting Professor of Zhejiang Normal University.Before joining Huawei in December 2015, he worked for CGI Federal office in USA for 18 years and servered as its Director of Cyber Security, Diector of Cloud Security。 He has established CGI Federal Identity Management Practice, and Cyber Security Competence Center. While working for CGI as Executive Consultant, he has consulted the United States federal Government, financial institutions, and utility companies and provided expertise in Finance, Blockchain, and Cyber Security.He graduated from Xian Jiaotong University in China and University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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About THEKEY: THEKEY is a Decentralized Ecosystem of Identity Verification Tool Using National Big-data and Blockchain.
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.
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.
Bryan Woods
President of Spend
Bryan Woods is the president of Spend.
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About Spend: Spend develops a universal bank account that merges cryptocurrency seamlessly to fiat.
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.
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.
John Humphreys
Senior Vice President of PROFICIO
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About PROFICIO: Proficio is an award wining cyber security service provider helping customers detect and prevent security breaches.
Alicia V. Nieva-Woodgate
Vice President, Corporate Communications and IR of Cantaloupe
Alicia V. Nieva-Woodgate joined Cantaloupe in 2020 as Vice President of Corporate Communications and IR, overseeing PR, IR, Internal Communications, and Social. Previously she was Head of Corporate Communications at Western Union. Prior to her role at Wester Union, she was Managing Director at ANW Networks Companies she’s represented over the years include Dell, Nlyte, Alchemy API, VERITAS, GlobalLogic and Method, Relation Insurance, MarkLogic, and Xoom. She was also the Director of Corporate Communications at Mediabolic and Opsware. Ms. Nieva-Woodgate began her PR career at the US headquarters for Crosby Securities, Inc., a Hong Kong based investment bank, as Manager of Media Relations and Marketing for North America. She has also held Board positions with the Commonwealth Club of California’s INFORUM, the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), The Social Media Club of Denver, The CityKids Foundation, Citymeals-on-Wheels Young Professional’s Alliance, and PRSA Silicon Valley. She is also currently the Programing Chair for PRSA Colorado.
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About Cantaloupe: Cantaloupe is a technology and payments company that gives its customers scale and flexibility in their retail value chain.
Alex Butenko
President, Co-CEO of TSI Analytics
PhD in Economics, author of dozens of publications in the field of economics, finance and process optimization. Has a vast background of over 15 years in economic research and business management within financial institutions. He is certified by Lean Six Sigma as a process optimization guru and is an expert in Project Management. Alex established continuous improvement system and personally led re- engineering projects in the areas of customer service, logistics and IT in the largest Eastern-European bank “Sberbank”. His exceptional achievements were recognized by US government which granted him permanent residence waiving intermediate stages from considerations of national interest. His main goal is establishing such business organization which products and services are so great that they sell themselves and make people’s lives better.
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About TSI Analytics: With the help of applying cutting edge tools to financial markets and trading, TSI Analytics sees itself as the future of trading platforms.
Elaine Ou
President R&D of PrivacyShell Corp
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About PrivacyShell Corp: We build crypto-blockchain startups that incorporate privacy & security by design.
Robert Beadles
President of Monarch Token
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About Monarch Token, Monarch Wallet: Monarch is the ultimate crypto payment solution for both business and consumers.
Darryll DiPietro
Founder, President and CEO of Coincierge Club
Darryll DiPietro was born in Farmington Connecticut in 1982. His father was a professional fire fighter and his mother worked in the banking industry. In 2002, Darryll enrolled in Gibbs College in Norwalk Connecticut. While at Gibbs, he took an interest in the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco California. Darryll was accepted and moved out west in August of 2003. One would think his major was juggling majors, but Darryll went from visual communication (graphic and web design) to automotive design for one semester to motion picture and & Tv. It was here that he developed his skills in number management, budgeting and allocating assets. After film school, Darryll moved to Southern California and was able to work from an unpaid production assistant to executive producer in 2 months, wrapping principle photography of his first film on August 22nd, 2005. This is the same day his first born son Steven was born. Darryll worked in the entertainment industry in LA for 3 years, from 2005 to 2008, on various productions with MTV, Universal, Warner Brothers and other smaller production companies. In 2008, Darryll moved his family, now consisting of 2 boys (Steven 2 and Sammy 2 months) to Las Vegas to pursue a potential development of a film studio. That project collapsed, but Darryll was able to secure employment at the #1 nightclub in Las Vegas (at the time). Over the next 9 years, Darryll worked his way up the ladder, starting as a street promoter and wrapping his career as director of vip services for Golden Nugget Casino’s nightlife. He was blessed with 2 more beautiful children, Nathan and Angelina. In 2016, gaming laws changed and Darryll used this opportunity to change industries. Darryll was able to secure a job as a tier 1 customer service agent with Google, eventually becoming the #1 agent in the campaign (Google Play Store). After only 7 weeks as an agent, he was promoted to operations team lead, over seeing 17 agents. In mid October, he was tasked with reducing agent after call work, a statistic they track heavily. Darryll took a case study of 30 agents and reduced their ACW to 3 seconds. It was 9 minutes prior to Darryll’s new parameters. Google let Darryll go in the spring of 2017, and he used his time on unemployment to redevelop his stills to code, built a bitcoin faucet and launched a php board with 3 partners, Chris Starr, Brandon Davis and Steven Taft. Darryll was featured in GQ magazine after he used his graphic design skills to launch a kickstarter called Cave Bro Rompers Darryll currently has 2 crypto currency brands in development, one craft beer experience brand in development as well as freelancing application design and website SEO under Brandon’s brand, MNGR
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About Coincierge Club: Coincierge Club offers a true white glove level service to all of users and vendors.
Darryll DiPietro
Founder, President and CEO of Coincierge Club
Darryll DiPietro was born in Farmington Connecticut in 1982. His father was a professional fire fighter and his mother worked in the banking industry. In 2002, Darryll enrolled in Gibbs College in Norwalk Connecticut. While at Gibbs, he took an interest in the Academy of Arts College in San Francisco California. Darryll was accepted and moved out west in August of 2003. One would think his major was juggling majors, but Darryll went from visual communication (graphic and web design) to automotive design for one semester to motion picture and & Tv. It was here that he developed his skills in number management, budgeting and allocating assets. After film school, Darryll moved to Southern California and was able to work from an unpaid production assistant to executive producer in 2 months, wrapping principle photography of his first film on August 22nd, 2005. This is the same day his first born son Steven was born. Darryll worked in the entertainment industry in LA for 3 years, from 2005 to 2008, on various productions with MTV, Universal, Warner Brothers and other smaller production companies. In 2008, Darryll moved his family, now consisting of 2 boys (Steven 2 and Sammy 2 months) to Las Vegas to pursue a potential development of a film studio. That project collapsed, but Darryll was able to secure employment at the #1 nightclub in Las Vegas (at the time). Over the next 9 years, Darryll worked his way up the ladder, starting as a street promoter and wrapping his career as director of vip services for Golden Nugget Casino’s nightlife. He was blessed with 2 more beautiful children, Nathan and Angelina. In 2016, gaming laws changed and Darryll used this opportunity to change industries. Darryll was able to secure a job as a tier 1 customer service agent with Google, eventually becoming the #1 agent in the campaign (Google Play Store). After only 7 weeks as an agent, he was promoted to operations team lead, over seeing 17 agents. In mid October, he was tasked with reducing agent after call work, a statistic they track heavily. Darryll took a case study of 30 agents and reduced their ACW to 3 seconds. It was 9 minutes prior to Darryll’s new parameters. Google let Darryll go in the spring of 2017, and he used his time on unemployment to redevelop his stills to code, built a bitcoin faucet and launched a php board with 3 partners, Chris Starr, Brandon Davis and Steven Taft. Darryll was featured in GQ magazine after he used his graphic design skills to launch a kickstarter called Cave Bro Rompers Darryll currently has 2 crypto currency brands in development, one craft beer experience brand in development as well as freelancing application design and website SEO under Brandon’s brand, MNGR
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About Coincierge Club: Coincierge Club offers a true white glove level service to all of users and vendors.
John Nosta
Founder & President of Nostalab
John is the founder of NostaLab, a digital health think tank recognized globally for an inspired vision of digital transformation. His focus is on guiding companies, NGOs, and governments through the dynamics of exponential change and the diffusion of innovation into complex systems. He is also a member of the Google Health Advisory Board and the WHO’s Digital Health Roster of Experts. He is a frequent and popular contributor to Fortune, Forbes, Psychology Today and Bloomberg as well as prestigious peer-reviewed journals including The American Journal of Physiology, Circulation, and The American Journal of Hematology.
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About Nostalab: NostaLab is a technology think tank recognized globally for an inspired vision of digital transformation.
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