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 COO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Gary Coover
COO of Stealth Project of Rally
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About Rally: Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
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.
June Ou
COO, Co-Founder of Figure
Founder and CEO of CCO Solutions, a firm that provided outsourced middle and back office solutions to the hedge fund industry. Co-founder, VP of Product Management and Engineering at Finaplex, a leader in wealth management solutions (sold to Broadridge NYSE: BR), responsible for both enterprise and cloud solutions. MS from UC Santa Cruz; MS from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Figure, Provenance Blockchain: Figure is a financial services company leveraging blockchain technology.
Simar Mangat
COO of Stream Token
Simar Mangat is the Founder at Stealth Startup.
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About Banner, BitClout, Celo, Filecoin Foundation, kea, Next Alpha, Stealth Startup, Stream Token: Stream is a blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to accept payments with low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
Joshua James
Co-Founder & COO of OneOf
Joshua is currently the co-founder and COO of OneOf. Prior to OneOf, Joshua was the co-founder and CEO of ZIG Media. ZIG was acquired in June ’19 by Media Rights Capital (Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions etc). Starting with his first company RiseTech, which he founded in college, Joshua has consistently had the vision to start and build successful companies. After selling RiseTech to Equity Office Property (Now Blackstone), Joshua started the pioneering live digital music firm Basecamp Productions which was eventually sold to Warner Music. Artists who became clients of Joshua’s include Pearl Jam, Kendrick Lamar, Linkin Park and Mumford & Sons.
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About OneOf: OneOf is a new green NFT platform built specifically for the music community.
Bobby Jaros
Co-founder and COO of Oasis Labs
Bobby is co-founder and COO of Oasis Labs and was the previous CEO of Lookflow, which he founded out of the Stanford PhD program to commercialize deep learning. Lookflow was acquired by Yahoo in 2013 to power image search at Flickr. Bobby has worked in machine learning research at Yahoo Labs, principal investing at Goldman Sachs, and strategy at Nokia. He earned a bachelor’s degree (Terman Scholar) and a master’s degree (Mayfield Fellow) in electrical engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Oasis Labs: Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.
Jerry King
COO of GRIID
Jerry King is the COO of GRIID. Before that, he was the COO and VP of Product Development at Vets First Choice.
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About GRIID: GRIID is a vertically-integrated bitcoin self-mining company that owns and operates a growing portfolio of bitcoin mining facilities.
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Carlo Las Marias
Co-Founder & COO of Hummingbot
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About Hummingbot: Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Andrew Benson
Co-Founder and COO of River Financial
Andrew Benson is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at River Financial.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Stephen Frangione
COO of RueOne Investments
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Devin Eldridge
COO of RADAR
Devin Eldridge is the COO at RADAR.
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About RADAR: We build products for our next financial system
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.
Jack Ottman
Chief Operating Officer 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.
Jing Xue
Co-Founder & COO of DecorMatters
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About DecorMatters: Building the world’s first blockchain-based creativity ecosystem for the trillion dollar home renovation industry
Josh Schwartz
Chief Operating Officer of Curv
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About Curv: Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.
Taylor Monnig
Chief Operating Officer of TMGcore
Taylor holds a degree in Communications from Arizona State University. He is a cryptocurrency expert and has conducted extensive research in the financial aspects of Bitcoin and the mining and trading of cryptocurrencies. Taylor is passionate about technology, cryptocurrency and business in general. With years of professional experience as a senior manager working in information technology recruitment along with his strong interpersonal skills, business sense, and natural leadership abilities, Taylor is the ideal person to lead, shape and oversee TMGcore operations.
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About TMGcore: TMGcore develops and commercializes emerging technologies which support global Blockchain stability, growth, and long-term sustainability.
Mercina Tillemann-Dick
Chief Operating Officer of Global Blockchain Business Council
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About Global Blockchain Business Council: GBBC brings together businesses and business leaders to highlight the latest innovations and advances in blockchain technology.
Michael McCanna
COO of Immunefi
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About Immunefi: Immunefi is a DeFi’s bug bounty platform.
Elina Cadouri
Co-Founder & COO of Dock
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About Dock: Making it simple for organizations to build, manage and present instantly verifiable digital credentials.
Matt Trudeau
Chief Operating Officer of ErisX
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About ErisX, Techstars: ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform.
Emma Diskin
Chief Operating Officer of Socios.com
Emma Diskin Chief Operating Officer at Chiliz & Socios.com.
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About Chiliz, Socios.com: Socios.com is a fan engagement platform powered by Chiliz
TongTong Gong
COO of Amberdata
With over 20 years of experience, TongTong has a proven track record operating globally as an engineering leader. She has an extensive background in building and managing distributed systems at scale for enterprises and has led advanced development teams focusing on incubating new businesses for major software players. Her teams have successfully built high-performance computing platforms and marketing analytics software for both offline and digital markets. Joining Unified in 2015, where she currently serves as VP of Engineering, TongTong is building a world-class engineering team, bringing Unified’s product vision to life and shaping the company’s technology strategy. Prior to Unified, TongTong held a variety of engineering and leadership roles at Acxiom, where she most recently established a Global Service Center in China. Additionally, she led an innovation and advanced development team for the CTO office at EMC. Tongtong holds an M.B.A. from University of Central Arkansas and a B.S. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, with Minor in Marketing from Harding University.
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About Amberdata: Amberdata is a blockchain and cryptoasset data company that offers tools for exchanges, wallets, traders, and developers.
Steven Lee
COO and CFO, Co-Founder, Board of Directors of Crowdz
Founder at Crowdz.
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About Crowdz: Nasdaq for Receivables
Erline Martin
Chief Operating Officer of Compumatrix
Erline Martin is the Chief Operating Officer and one of the Board Advisors at Compumatrix based in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Erline has a great recognition and deep proficiency of modern business solutions. Creative and passionate with broad-based transferable skills in sales, marketing and management, she thrives in a fast paced environment. Her education, work experience, ethics and loyalty to the company allow her to make sound, sometimes bold decisions, whilst focusing on the big picture without losing sight of the details. With her ability to focus on solutions rather than problems and as COO Erline encourages the entire Compumatrix staff and membership to fully engage with each other, as “team players.” Erline attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana and came to Compumatrix seven years ago as a member/shareholder. Prior to Compumatrix, she held various positions in Sales and Marketing, including National and International Trainer, Director, Master Distributor, Moderator and Presidency of different companies. In her 19 years of being in the Home based Industry, as President for two Network Marketing Companies and owner of her own Network Marketing Company, Erline received media recognition with press, television and radio coverage, for being one of the first companies to visit China to present and promote company products after the US-China Relations Act of 2000.
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About Compumatrix: Compumatrix provides social media currency monetization, web development, and management services.
Mark Morley
COO and Co-Founder of Attestiv
Mark Morley is the Co-Founder and COO of Attestiv.
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About Attestiv: Attestiv is an information technology company that verifies the authenticity of digital media and data.
Steven Bitondo
COO & Co-Founder of Node Capital
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About Goodway Technologies, Node Capital: Node Capital is a technology development and data science company which provides data science solutions.
Austin Rappaport
Cofounder, COO of TonicPow
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About Delivery Dudes, TonicPow: TonicPow – Earn, Promote, Explode! BitcoinSV Powered P2P Advertisement Network
Elissa Shevinsky
Co-Founder & COO of Faster Than Light
Elissa Shevinsky is an entrepreneur and author, specializing in information security and general risk management. She is currently CEO at Faster Than Light, where her team offers code quality certification and testing software for startups.
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About Faster Than Light, Kearney Boyle & Associates: Faster Than Light is a building developer tools for smart contracts.
Brian Jackson
President & COO of burstIQ
Brian has played a key role in the development of the BurstIQ platform, and leads network engineering and technical operations for the company. An expert in security and enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms, Brian has been published in numerous works and has mentored large-scale Engineering, DevOps, and Development teams. Prior to joining BurstIQ, Brian led Cloud Engineering for an enterprise healthcare solution provider and provided consulting expertise to numerous Fortune 500 companies. Brian has a B.S. in Information Technology from Kansas State University.
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About burstIQ: A health-focused enterprise enablement and global network that connects businesses and people through the power of 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.
Dharmesh Dadbhawala
Chief Operating Officer of Boardwalktech
Dharmesh Dadbhawala is the Chief Operating Officer at Boardwalktech.
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About Boardwalktech: Boardwalktech provides patented digital ledger technology for enterprise applications
Sebastien Henot
Co-Founder, COO & Head of Digital Assets of Flyion
Sebastien has 15 years of international business operations and strategic marketing experience in the automotive industry, occupying various positions, starting his career building a strong expertise on the “basics” of the OEM business: from Sales Forecasting, Pricing to the management of a region of 5 countries (200Meur turnover per year, >10M regarding sales promotion) He spent 3 years as global chief marketing manager in the Electric cars division, in charge of the strategic marketing of the Personal Electric cars line up of Renault (Twizy, Fluence, Zoe). Working on 2015-2020 topics, in order to create the marketing strategy following the evolution of technology (batteries, range, charging) and the ramp-up in EV adoption. Since Nov 2015, he has been based in California at the Renault Innovation Silicon Valley center with the goal of changing the OEM’s business model. Going to “metallurgy” (produce, ship, sell, maintain) to “services” (example: make money during the use of the car) From electric vehicles to autonomous driving, through connected cars, IoT, and New Mobility services, the manufacturers will have to adapt to survive. Autonomous driving is too often perceived as one final destination, but it is only a milestone in the roadmap to come. All the services around this technology will open new ways of travelling. We will no longer speak in terms of destination but in terms of journey.
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About Flyion, Renault Innovation Silicon Valley: Flyion is a blockchain-powered flight insurance company that invents a new way to deal with travel disruption for leisure and business.
Lindsay Moroney
COO of Artory
Prior to joining Artory, Lindsay was Vice President of Strategy and Operations at The Muse, scaling the business from 18 to 140 employees through Series A and B funding rounds. Before The Muse, Lindsay led Operations at Artnet for almost 10 years, with teams in New York, Berlin, and London. During her tenure she improved data collection for the Price Database and launched and led the company’s data science team.
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About Artory: Artory is a secure, public registry for art and objects, utilizing blockchain technology.
Richard Silver
COO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services
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About Central Reach, Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services: Titanium is positioned to disrupt the provisioning and virtualization space by being first-to-market
Jason O’Reilly
COO/CFO of DrawBridge Lending
Jason O’Reilly is the COO and CFO at DrawBridge Lending.
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About DrawBridge Lending: DrawBridge offers a lending loans with no margin calls backed by Bitcoin holdings.
Jenny Vatrenko
Co-Founder and COO of Oath Protocol
Jenny Vatrenko is a co-founder of Oath Protocol, a dispute resolution and governance protocol that facilitates fair, robust, and transparent community decision making on the blockchain. Jenny is an experienced high-stakes commercial litigator and former assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to co-founding Oath, Jenny spent six years at Boies Schiller Flexner – one of the top litigation firms in the US – working on some of the most high-profile disputes of the past decade, including the valuation of AriZona Iced Tea company, Bill Ackman’s pyramid scheme allegations against Herbalife, and the Sony Pictures hack. Her experience encompasses all stages of litigation, from inception to trial, across state and federal courts as well as alternative dispute resolution programs. Before joining Boies Schiller, she prosecuted misdemeanors in the sex crimes bureau of Kings County District Attorney’s Office, leading several cases through successful jury trials. Jenny is using her litigation background and perspective to build an effective and efficient dispute resolution and governance mechanism for the blockchain.
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About Oath Protocol: OATH Protocol is the first of its kind blockchain governance and dispute resolution protocol.
Shariyka Romero
COO of Ikohaus
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About Ikohaus: Ikohaus provides NFTart
Shariyka Romero
COO of Ikohaus
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About Ikohaus: Ikohaus provides NFTart
Nader Sadek
COO of ICOToday
COO of ICOToday
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About ICOToday: ICOToday is the secure, reliable platform for launching and directly investing in ICOs.
Nader Sadek
COO of ICOToday
COO of ICOToday
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About ICOToday: ICOToday is the secure, reliable platform for launching and directly investing in ICOs.
Steven Better
COO of Home Lending Pal
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About Home Lending Pal: Home Lending Pal is a marketplace that focuses on mortgage equality by using AI and blockchain to de-identify HMDA data early in the process
Patrick Long
COO, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of WeTrust
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About WeTrust: Building reciprocal aid organizations on the blockchain
Smita Seetaram
Co Founder & COO of PocketInns Inc.
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About PocketInns Inc.: The first of a GenNxt decentralized accommodation rental marketplace built around the blockchain technology.
David Drobik
Co-founder & COO of Authentic Digital Collectibles
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About Authentic Digital Collectibles, Startup Fund: Collect Digital Experiences on the Blockchain Collect Digital Experiences on the Blockchain
Sharon Burns
COO of Chicago Blockchain Project
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About Chicago Blockchain Project: Chicago Blockchain Project is a blockchain company based in chicago.
Pedro Anderson
COO of Winding Tree
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About Winding Tree: Winding Tree makes travel cheaper for travelers and more profitable for providers by using Blocking to remove current middlemen.
Burak Sefer
Co-Founder & COO of Reengen
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About Faradai, Reengen: Reengen Energy IoT Platform is a PaaS analytics solution for Global Energy & Utilities Industries
Gladys Alvarenga
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvadesh Technologies
With more than twenty years of experience in corporate financial management, Gladys E. Alvarenga has been serving as Co-Founder and CFO of three company. Gladys has extended her leadership skills, ambition, and insight to the community, serving on the boards of the Alvadesh Technologies Solutions LLC., JOYFULVALUES.COM LLC.
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About Alvadesh Technologies: We help our clients to maximize productivity and improve business performance by using intelligent and predictive data analysis.
Gladys Alvarenga
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvadesh Technologies
With more than twenty years of experience in corporate financial management, Gladys E. Alvarenga has been serving as Co-Founder and CFO of three company. Gladys has extended her leadership skills, ambition, and insight to the community, serving on the boards of the Alvadesh Technologies Solutions LLC., JOYFULVALUES.COM LLC.
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About Alvadesh Technologies: We help our clients to maximize productivity and improve business performance by using intelligent and predictive data analysis.
Cristian Diaconu
Chief Operating Officer of Aryia Technologies
With deep knowledge, experience and passion for entrepreneurship, Cristian helped multiple start-ups succeed and bring new ideas to fruition. As a blockchain early adopter, he dedicated time to study and explore practical applications for this innovative technology. At Aryia, he oversees the ongoing business operations, leads the product research and development efforts and focuses on building valuable partnerships.
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About Aryia Technologies: The First Blockchain-Powered Smart Speaker That Doesn’t Spy On You
Michael Packman
COO & Founder of Bundlefi
Founder of Bundlefi.
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About Bundlefi: It Pays To Keep Your Money Close To Home
Michael Packman
COO & Founder of Bundlefi
Founder of Bundlefi.
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About Bundlefi: It Pays To Keep Your Money Close To Home
Ray Keech
Founder & COO of Blüpass
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About Blüpass: Blüpass is an ERC-20 utility token that enables multiple users to access their platform designed to better connect providers, carriers.
Linda Carr
Chief Operating Officer of QubeChain, LLC.
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About Crystal Management, QubeChain, LLC.: QubeChain is a technology company that develops mobile and web based revenue generating applications and services.
Cyril Bassan
Co-founder COO of MoneyMatch
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About MoneyMatch: MoneyMatch is an eSports tournament over blockchain startup
Mike Ferry
COO of Oxygen Initiative
Mike has over a decade of experience in the e-mobility and smart grid sectors, managing diverse portfolios of clean energy initiatives focused on vehicle electrification, advanced energy storage, and behind-the-meter distributed and renewable generation.
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About Oxygen Initiative: Oxygen Initiative is a global leader in intelligent electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
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