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 VP’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Mahesh Vellanki
Co-Founder & VP, Growth of Rally
Mahesh Vellanki is an Associate with Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on early-growth investment opportunities in the internet, digital media, mobile, e-commerce, gaming and online education sectors. Prior to joining Redpoint, Mahesh was an Analyst in the technology investment banking division of Citigroup where he focused on internet, digital media, software, hardware and semiconductor companies. He advised a variety of clients on equity and debt financings, as well as strategic business development, M&A and LBO transactions. At Citigroup, Mahesh worked with companies such as Zillow, Groupon, AutoTrader, Synacor and Equinix. Mahesh earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance with honors from the University of Maryland.
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About Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
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.
Stina Brock
SVP, North America of Electron
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
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.
Adam Lesh
VP, Technology of Breaker (SingularDTV)
Adam Lesh is the Co-Chair & Blockchain Advisory Council at CompTIA.
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About Breaker (SingularDTV): A decentralized global distribution platform empowers artists with a fairer, transparent monetization model through blockchain technology.
Sung Woo Choi
VP of Business & Corporate Development 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.
Daniel Mason
EVP – Sales and Strategy of Spring Labs
VP Product @Spring Labs • Blockchain Tech • CEO @Elemetric (Techstars ’17), @Sabbatical • Data Science Head @ @Belly, @Red Hat • Mathematics @Wake Forest University
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About Sabbatical, Spring Labs: Spring Labs is a transformative and decentralized infrastructure for credit and identity data.
Olivier Veyrac
VP of Business Development of Veem
Olivier Veyrac is the VP of Business Development at Veem.
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About Veem: Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.
Kura Gange
VP of Operations of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Magatte Wade
VP of Product of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Denitza Tyufekchieva
VP Business Development Manager and Co-Founder of Propy
Denitza Tyufekchieva is a blockchain advocate & co-founder and VP of Business Development of Propy, author, mentor and advisor of tech startups. She is recognized on a world level as one of the first women in the blockchain ecosystem, and she is also part of Forbes 30 under 30 selection. Denitza is expert in blockchain legislation, real estate, token economy for physical assets. She spoke at numerous Blockchain events in Silicon Valley and Europe. She holds Master of Marketing degree and a Bachelor of International Business Relations, graduated with honors. Author of blockchain papers, board member of some of the biggest blockchain organizations in Europe. She is highly engaged with non-profit organizations aimed at helping young tech startups, where she mentored 40+ tech startups.
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About Propy: Propy is an end-to-end real estate transaction management platform that facilitates real estate transactions online.
Blake Richman
VP Finance of Vertalo
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About Hercules Capital, NovaBlock Capital, Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Thomas McInerney
VP of Product of Vertalo
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About Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Thomas McInerney
VP of Product of Vertalo
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About Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Justin Litchfield
EVP of Technology of ABE Global
Justin D. Litchfield Ph.D is the Executive VP of Technology at ABE Global, a Global Securities Exchange. Technologist, an architect, he is an expert of innovation technologies integration with financial industry. After graduating from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Justin cofounded his first payments company. Since then, he gave life to many companies: ProChain Capital, BTC Labs, CoinCart, BitPeso, and Obsidian Technologies. He also advises to select companies such as MAD Network, LXDX and BlockchainCubed.
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About ABE Global, ProChain Capital: ABE, “a better exchange”, is a global securities exchange.
Kevin Hopkins
Chief Strategy Officer & VP, Product Development of Crowdz
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About Crowdz, Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation: Nasdaq for Receivables
Brian Hathie
VP Investor Relations of Tradebits
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About Tradebits: Tradebits is a scalable, reliable, high-performance & highly configurable digital currency exchange.
Jon R
VP Engineering of SyncFab
Experienced Software engineering lead/manager, currently leading a team of 10+ full stack engineers, as well as maintaining key infrastructure and code and providing support and guidance for other cross-functional team. Managed engineering projects from inception to delivery, and led non-engineering projects, such as GDPR-related software compliance plans. Previously, I have worked as full-stack engineer, focusing on Javascript, Node and Java. Currently focusing on managing engineering teams, ensuring their direction and technical approach is clear and well-structured, as well as providing guidance and recurring feedback to promote their growth.
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About SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Jon R
VP Engineering of SyncFab
Experienced Software engineering lead/manager, currently leading a team of 10+ full stack engineers, as well as maintaining key infrastructure and code and providing support and guidance for other cross-functional team. Managed engineering projects from inception to delivery, and led non-engineering projects, such as GDPR-related software compliance plans. Previously, I have worked as full-stack engineer, focusing on Javascript, Node and Java. Currently focusing on managing engineering teams, ensuring their direction and technical approach is clear and well-structured, as well as providing guidance and recurring feedback to promote their growth.
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About SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
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.
Sumeet Singh
Engineering Manager / Principal Architect, – VP Development of Gluon
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About Gluon: Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Kara Coppa
COO, EVP & Co-Founder of BLAKFX
Coppa is the COO, EVP & Co-Founder of BLΔKFX. She has more than fifteen years of professional experience, spanning the areas of information security governance, threat detection/mitigation, risk assessments and incident response and investigations. For nearly twenty years, Coppa has been a hands-on security expert for various industries including the United States military, telecom and financial services. She has provided a wide variety of information technology and security services including information security governance, threat detection/mitigation, risk assessments, network architecture security, incident response and investigations. Prior to BLΔKFX she was the EVP of Cybersecurity services for SIG Homeland Security where she ran the national defense & cyber resiliency projects related to national security operations.
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About BLAKFX: BLAKFX provides sophisticated cyber security solutions for consumers, enterprise, military, governments and high net-worth individuals.
Jeffrey Ho
VP of Business Development of StrongSalt
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About StrongSalt: StrongSalt is building a secure team communication application providing encrypted messaging, archiving, and search for innovative teams.
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
Dan Nossa
Co-founder & VP of Voltmarkets
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About Voltmarkets: Volt Markets is an energy origination, tracking, and trading platform.
Breaux Walker
SVP Blockchain of XCHNG
Breaux Walker is an international blockchain and tokenization business development leader. As SVP Blockchain at Kochava, Breaux is responsible for business development of the Kochava-sponsored open source blockchain project, XCHNG. Previously, Breaux was the SVP, International for Union Mobile Fintech, a publicly-listed Chinese fintech company. Prior to joining UMF, he was a partner at Kuan Capital, where he invested in fintech, mobile, and Internet companies in China.
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About XCHNG: XCHNG is an open and unified blockchain-based framework for the digital advertising ecosystem.
Natalie Smolenski
SVP Business Development of Learning Machine Technologies
Natalie Smolenski is an anthropologist who leads business development for Learning Machine, a blockchain technology firm. As an author and public speaker, she focuses on the intersections of identity, technology, and government. By bringing a scientific perspective to distributed digital technologies and social transformation, she helps audiences from all backgrounds understand how individuals connect to form communities and build the infrastructures of the future.
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About Learning Machine Technologies: Blockchain, SaaS, Digital Credentials, Identity Docs, Blockchain, Enterprise
Jacky Chan
VP, Engineering of Kyokan
Jacky is a full-stack software engineer and frontend expert. An early engineer at Symphony, he built secure chat applications for Wall Street. As a Software Engineer at Uber, Jacky’s work made an impact on the majority of Uber’s drivers through the global (700+ city) onboarding funnel. Jacky brings world-class code quality and development velocity, design expertise and product sense to Kyokan.
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About Kyokan: Making blockchain accessible to everyone on earth.
Vera Urban
VP of Human Resources of TellSpec
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About TellSpec: Real time nondestructive solution for food testing, food-safety, food-authenticity and food-traceability
Michael Giunta
VP of AC Lion
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About AC Lion: Powering Innovation by Bridging the Talent Gap. Recruiting Digital Talent for More Than 20 Years.
Dan Shapiro
VP of AC Lion
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About AC Lion: Powering Innovation by Bridging the Talent Gap. Recruiting Digital Talent for More Than 20 Years.
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.
Alex Vorobiev
VP, Product Management & Customer Success of HyperProof
Alex Vorobiev is the Vice President Of Product Management and Customer Success at Hyperproof.
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About HyperProof: Hyperproof is a cloud-based compliance operations software that collects evidence automatically and manages a compliance program.
Chris Chapman
Founder and SVP of Engineering of Amino Payments
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About Amino Payments: Amino is a payments company bringing transparency to online advertising by eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse.
Dave Otander
Vice President of ULedger
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About ULedger: ULedger is building the Generation 4 Data BlockChain to power every busines
Trent Poltronetti
VP Marketing and Sales of SmartAxiom
Trent has been getting tech companies to market since his first success at ARM in the 90’s and is currently the VP of Marketing and Sales for SmartAxiom Inc. Before joining SmartAxiom, Trent was the Marketing VP at the intellectual property company IPextreme, where he was central in developing the business model and defining and building the brand and product offering.
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About SmartAxiom: Decentralized Autonomous Solution for Fast, Reliable, Secure IoT
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.
Hoang Nguyen
VP R&D of WeTrust
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About WeTrust: Building reciprocal aid organizations on the blockchain
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.
Greg McGregor
VP Engineering of Dispatch
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About Bright Apps LLC, Dispatch: Dispatch is building a revolutionary business-ready distributed ledger protocol for creating fast, scalable and secure data-centric dApps.
Chris Sayre
Open Data Advocate and VP of Junar
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About Junar: Junar offers a cloud-based open data platform allowing businesses to free their data to drive opportunities, collaboration and transparency.
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.
Trevor Whiting
VP, Investor Relations of RealtyReturns
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About CyberArk Software, RealtyReturns: Investment Platform Providing Real Estate Investments Using Cryptocurrency (ETH)
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.
Stoyan Stoyanov
VP of Product & UX 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.
Robert Lupo
EVP Certification & Auditing of SoT – Security of Things
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About SoT – Security of Things: SoT is an R&D organization and ecosystem of interconnected companies, partnerships, and endeavors.
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