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 Blockchain 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.
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.
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.
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.
Dean Steinbeck
President & GC of Horizen Labs
Dean Steinbeck is co-founder and COO of Horizen Labs, a VC-backed blockchain development company. Prior to launching Horizen Labs, Dean served as General Counsel to Horizen, an open source blockchain project with the first permissionless, decentralized and fully generalizable sidechain ecosystem. The American Crypto Association listed Dean as one of the Top 25 Crypto Lawyers in 2020. Dean has over a decade of experience representing traditional VC-backed software development companies and served as General Counsel to TigerConnect, a secure and regulatory compliant communication platform used in over 4,000 healthcare facilities. Dean is a corporate attorney with a passion for privacy and technology. Dean holds a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law.
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About Crypto Law Insider, Horizen, Horizen Labs: Horizen Labs is a technology company that enables businesses to build secure distributed ledger solutions.
William Martino
Founder & President of Kadena
Will Martino is the Founder and President of Kadena.
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About Kadena: Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, including the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network.
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
John Sun
Founder, President of Spring Labs
John Sun is Co-Founder and Chief Credit Officer at AvantCredit, a company offering a unique and highly customized approach to the personal loan process, completely online. John leads the team that uses advanced algorithms and machine-learning capabilities to power that customized approach. Previous to Avant Credit, John was a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Debteye (formerly SpringCoin). John’s career focused on consumer finance in various roles. As a part of Y-Combinator, John and his team launched a personal debt management tool for sub-prime customers. The company allowed customers to manage debt, negotiate with creditors and formulate a plan for repayment. John also worked in various roles across Enova Financial including Vice President of Analytics, the e-commerce segment of Cash America (CSH), including analytics and online retail finance.
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About Spring Labs: Spring Labs is a transformative and decentralized infrastructure for credit and identity data.
Greg Meredith
President of RChain Cooperative
Greg is the President of The RChain Cooperative. Previously he has worked as Principal Architect of Microsoft’s BizTalk Process Orchestration, Principal Architect of Microsoft’s Highwire offering as well as Principal Architect of ATM Network management solution for ATT/NCR and Co-designer and developer of MCC’s Rosette/ESS technology.
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About RChain Cooperative: RChain Cooperative decentralized applications platform is powered by the Rho Virtual Machine.
Rachel Obenshain
President, Co-Founder of Xeniapp Inc
Rachel Obenshain is an entrepreneur and investor. She has nearly 20 years of professional investing experience in public and private equity, with a focus on the Travel, Leisure, and Consumer Products sectors. She co-founded two hedge funds, including Lodge Hill Capital, which ultimately grew to $1 billion in assets under management. Obenshain has also held executive positions at leading investment firms including Alliance Bernstein (portfolio manager), Citadel (senior consumer analyst), Chilton Investment Corp (vice president), and GTCR Golder Rauner (associate). She earned her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wellesley College. She joined Xeniapp in 2019, initially as an advisor, and subsequently as a co-founder and executive team member, helping Xeniapp to design, develop and build its white label and payments businesses.
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About Xeniapp Inc: Operating System for Travel
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 Tinsman
President of NEM
With over two decades of consumer and B2B product marketing experience with top brands in mobile, software, hi-tech, gaming and online services, Alex brings a strong arsenal of skills and strategic counsel to clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies as well as Austin’s own SMBs. Her successes include landing multiple featured placements for her clients in the iOS store, Google Play, and Amazon as well as securing National and local media placements for clients worldwide. Her specialties include: • Moble, Apps, and Games Marketing • Social Media and Digital Marketing • B2B and B2C Project Management • Content Strategy • Business Development & Strategic Partnerships • Go-to-Market Launch & Sustain Planning • Account Relationship Management • Public Relations As a public speaker, she enjoys motivating and teaching strategies on how to successfully navigate mobile marketing, new media and digital marketing. You can find her at times on Linked-In and www.alextinsman.com.
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About Accolades Public Relations, NEM: NEM.io Foundation is dedicated to the ongoing development of NEM blockchain technology.
Rick Faulise
Co-Founder & President of RedRex
Rick is a multi-dimensional, technology executive and immensely passionate IT professional who holds extensive experience of working in the Software industry. Equipped with a formidable blend of knowledge and understanding of pioneering new automation technologies, he excels in the niches of methodologies and new platforms such as AI, mobile devices, streaming devices, TV’s, and autos. He is motivated and inspired by the drive to contribute to the growth and cultivation of prosperous automation communities. With more than 18 years of experience serving as a management leader and had the honor of serving high-profile companies/organizations as a QA Lead/Manager Role for both automated and manual testing efforts. As a Leader, Rick’s primary objective is to lead implementation of new technologies and expand the training capabilities. He has achieved a great deal of acclamation and recognition for his work, and is always on the lookout for an opportunity to strive for a higher level of professional career success.
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About RedRex: The metaverse for every day use
Andre De Castro
Co-Founder, CEO & President of Blockchain of Things
Andre De Castro is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain of Things, Inc. He is a long-time crypto currency specialist who has an expert’s insight as to the field’s potential and is working towards making that potential a reality. Andre has been an active participant in the Bitcoin community and industry since 2010. Andre’s experience includes being a software developer, investor, trader, advisor, and US policy influencer. He is an avid public speaker and panelist for financial technology events including GE Global Research, Perkins Coie, Wedbush, and the NY Bitcoin Center. His early grasp of the unrealized potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize multiple sectors of the industry led him to found Blockchain ofThings in 2014, and drive the development of the Catenis EnterpriseTM platform. Graduating with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Andre earned a B.S. in Computer Science, with concentration in artificial intelligence. A prolific inventor, he is the holder of two U.S. patents that streamline the installation of electronic products in automotive circuits. Most recently, Andre was a keynote speaker at the Blockchain Summit in Beijing), The Blockchain Event in Las Vegas, Canaccord Genuity’s Annual Growth Conference in Boston, and the Blockchain World Congress in NYC.
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About Blockchain of Things: Blockchain of Things created the first globally accessible blockchain enabled device network.
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.
Payson Johnston
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Crowdz
Payson serves as the CEO of Crowdz, a Blockchain startup in the Silicon Valley, focused on digitizing, automating, and accelerating supply chains. Payson has worked for 20+ years in diverse areas including value chains and supply chain management, building analytic platforms, supply chain and commerce systems, demand management, technology, and designing from scratch the company he co-founded. This coupled with his interest, work, teaching, and research in areas such as sustainability, business & robotic ethics, and philosophical theology brings to the table a unique combination of skills and leadership that drives innovation, helps form strategic and lasting partnerships with very diverse groups, and delivers real results. Payson also has the understanding of hardware and software applications & platforms and how they can transform and improve our business and personal lives. Payson’s combination of skills is what Steve Case, in his book “The Third Wave,” says is absolutely needed in the next wave of the Internet. Over the last several years, Payson has taught at the University of San Francisco as an Adjunct Professor and recently as an Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley Extension. He has lectured on the topics of sustainability & ethics, supply chains, operations, risk management, and distribution channels. Payson’s most important calling and vocation is being a father to 3 kids and spending time with his wife while enjoying hobbies of travel, visiting old bookstores, participating in his faith community, watching movies, raising children, and living life together. Life motto: Change the world in a radical, visionary, innovative and positive way, without losing your soul, all while making an unequivocal and lasting impact on family, friends, colleagues, individuals, communities, society, and the world; an impact that promotes goodness and human flourishing.
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About Crowdz: Nasdaq for Receivables
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.
Sekhar Puli
Co-Founder, President & CEO of LifeVoxel
Sekhar Puli is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of LifeVoxel.
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About LifeVoxel, MAROSHI Partners: LifeVoxel is an Interactive Streaming and AI Platform for Diagnostic Imaging Centers.
Matthew Niemerg
Co-Founder and President of Aleph Zero
Matthew Niemerg is the Co-Founder and President at Aleph Zero.
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About Aleph Zero: Aleph Zero is a public blockchain platform developed to solve the shortcomings of current infrastructure layers in several industries.
David Morris
President/CEO of Compumatrix
Mr. David Morris studied at the University of British Columbia and Bethany University leading to a degree in Bachelor of Science in Theology. With over 25 years experience as President and CEO of his production and manufacturing of custom cabinetry, he now takes his craftmanship in shaping Compumatrix to reach the highest level of success with its unique paradigm & business model. He loves fishing, gardening and having a great day with his family.
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About Compumatrix: Compumatrix provides social media currency monetization, web development, and management services.
Randy Lashinski
President and CEO of Laminar
Randy Lashinski is the President and CEO at Laminar, Inc.
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About Laminar: Decentralised Financial Platform
Michael Goldstein
President of Satoshi Nakamato Institute
Michael Goldstein founder and president of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. I co-host the Noded Bitcoin Podcast. I think about Bitcoin, strong cryptography, and society.
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About Satoshi Nakamato Institute: Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, kickstarting the world’s first fully realized crypto-currency.
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.
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.
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.
Colin Gounden
President & CEO of VIA
Colin Gounden is CEO and co-founder of VIA. Colin has led the company’s entry and expansion in the energy industry. He also initiated the development of VIA’s blockchain application, Trusted Analytics Chain (TAC), to meet the high data security needs required to make predictive analytics and other AI applications successful in energy. Prior to VIA, Colin was the first investor and co-founder of five successful MIT spinouts with a focus on energy and deep science applications. In 2009, he sold Grail Research, where he was founder and CEO. Under Colin’s leadership, Grail Research grew from its first employee in 2006 to more than 300 full-time employees in North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, and China. Colin went on to become chief marketing officer and then president across all business units of the acquiring company (18 locations and 2,000 people). Previously, Colin was a partner and elected board director at a top five global strategy consulting and private equity investment firm with $2Bn in assets under management. He started his career with IBM working with utilities in Europe and North America before co-founding a technology services firm with major customers such as Royal Dutch Shell that he grew and sold for $97M in 1999. Colin has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, and the Financial Times. He is also a frequent guest speaker on the subject of blockchain and energy at events held by industry experts and energy regulators (public utilities commissions and FERC). Colin graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. Colin has been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and the Financial Times and is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard Business School.
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About VIA: VIA helps energy companies realize the value of their data through Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain.
Hakam Misson
President of Gluon
Hakam Misson, Founder & President has over 40 years’ experience creating and growing companies. His companies employ over 100 people worldwide and have generated well over $500M in revenue. Since moving to the United States from India in the 1970s he has become one of the premier entrepreneurs of his generation.
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About Gluon, MTC, Qualza: Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Charles Harrison
Executive Vice-President of AGTools
Seasoned, versatile executive with robust general management experience and skills based on strong marketing and business development accomplishments. Substantive track record in top executive positions both in multinational and entrepreneurial companies with in depth knowledge in the industries of casino gaming, media diversity, food and beverage, and site location. TTH Gaming is a gaming management firm dedicated to the operation of gaming ventures primarily in Latin America. As CEO of the gaming firm Silver Slipper Gaming Dominicus LLC, I led a team that developed the Casino Dominicus in the Dominican Republic through the initial planning, funding and opening stages in La Romana. The casino is unique among all entertainment in the DR as it appeals to both the local and tourist markets. Previous experience as North American General Manager for CIRSA involved creating a national distribution network for leisue and gaming equipment, as well as playing a vital role in the capital raising efforts for the company’s expansion in Latin America. Part of that expansion included the Casino Buenos Aires, in which I led the identification, acquisition and transportation for startup to Argentina, leading to annual earnings of over sixty million dollars. Director, Spanish venture capital and economic development firm, ENISA. Evaluated and implemented investment in over twenty five US companies establishing new facilities in Spain. In the Licensing Arena, Owner of the Los Kitos Entertainment LLC, the leading comic strip franchise in the US Hispanic market. Specialties: Cross border entry, US Hispanic market, Southern Europe and Latin America. Negotiation of leisure industry agreements. Implementation of acquisition of on going businesses. Launching marketing promotional campaigns for new venues, and for economic development objectives. Language fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, knowledge of Catalan and French.
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About AGTools: AgTools provides game-changing intelligence to the agriculture market through up-to-the-moment statistics.
Martha Montoya
President of AGTools
After over 25 years in the Ag Industry in USA and overseas, I and my team are developing and delivering Agtools to the market, a SaaS platform offering real-time intelligence to farmers and buyers across the full supply chain. Using data, creating new algorithms, engaging machine learning helping manage market volatility, increasing profitability and reducing the world’s yearly 4,900 daily truckloads in USA and 62,300 daily truckloads wasted between farms and distribution centers we are truly positively impacting our FARMERS who bear the losses everywhere in the world. Agtools worldwide market content management and smart solution enables all players in the supply chain to make efficient decisions on production, distribution and future capabilities impacting our FARMERS worldwide. And yes, it does reduce waste and carbon footprint that negatively impacts the environment.
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About AGTools: AgTools provides game-changing intelligence to the agriculture market through up-to-the-moment statistics.
Matias Klein
Co-Founder, President and CEO of Kognition
Matias is a visionary entrepreneur and innovator with a long and successful track record of launching groundbreaking new software solutions. Kognition, his newest venture, is a productivity multiplying artificial intelligence service that dramatically enhances safety and security in commercial office buildings and smart cities. Most recently Matias was Vice President of Product Management at McKesson (NYSE: MCK), where he was responsible for driving growth and innovation in a $1B financial services software portfolio. Prior to McKesson, Matias was SVP of Technology and led R&D and technology operations at Portico Systems, which McKesson acquired for $90M. Matias joined Portico’s leadership team when they acquired his first startup, Ethidium Health Systems.
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About Kognition: Kognition is the developer of the world’s first enterprise-wide, hardware-agnostic Smart Property System.
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
Steven Dobesh
Co-Founder and President of True-Tickets
CDR Dobesh works for the Logistics Directorate, The Joint Staff, at the Pentagon as the Technology & Innovation Chief for J4. He is leading one of the DoD’s first blockchain use cases for securing the provenance of the digital thread for additive manufacturing (3D Printing).
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About True-Tickets: A secure contactless digital ticket delivery service that aims to make buying, selling and transferring live event tickets simple and safe.
Kieren James Lubin
President of BlockApps
Kieren is President and CEO at BlockApps. He architected and implemented BlockApps RESTful API and surrounding products and components, including the authorization framework, peer to peer networking code, Node.js client, and third party integrations.
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About BlockApps, BlockApps, BlockApps, Blockskye, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance: BlockApps is a Blockchain as a Service company with customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 organizations.
Jeffrey Lee Nelson
President and Chairman of the Board of AppliedApps, Inc.
Jeffrey Lee Nelson is a financial executive with offices on Sun Valley Road in Ketchum, Idaho, with 30 years in agriculture, real estate, mortgage, finance, computer applications and development and mining. Current and past positions include Chairman of the Board, Board Member, President, Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, National and Regional Sales Manager for private and public companies. Founding his first company in Cost Rica at age 21, he grew the company to include, agribusiness (cattle, cacao, spices, timber), artisanal mining for precious metals, grocery and hardware sales, communications, construction, trucking, tourism and film services. Worked in all facets of the mortgage industry including correspondent, wholesale and retail mortgage origination, operations and management. Recruited and/or managed in excess of 1,000 other finance professionals for private and public companies, state and nationally chartered banks, as well as foreign banks. Emphasis in building start-ups and positioning companies for subsequent sale or public offering. Qualified Person in Charge for operational and sales offices for seven (7) employers spanning 23+ years and approximately $ 10 billion in total residential and commercial mortgage fundings. Honors include one of “The 25 Most Connected Mortgage Professionals” In the United States from the National Mortgage Professional Magazine. Financial Applications ‘fineapps’ developer for wealth management, banking and other financial services for handheld devices producing high-quality lead generation and legacy systems replacement for the mortgage industry. Mining industry advisor involved in ‘clean’ mining exploration, development and finance; due diligence investigations, financial and structural valuation and analysis, business development and marketing analysis and other consulting and advisory work and services necessary to bring mining properties into production. Participated in numerous capital raises from the aggregation of data and preparation of business plans, financial forecasts and pitch pieces, performing several hundred presentations to investment banks and high net worth individuals from the US, Australia, the UK and Switzerland. He manages a retail branch mortgage operation for Finance of America Mortgage LLC in Ketchum, Idaho, originating residential and commercial mortgages and portfolios of mortgages. Currently owns with his wife Lucia, a financial services firm supporting such diverse business segments as non-profits, for profits, individuals and quasi-governmental institutions, providing financial guidance, bookkeeping and payroll services, web and print services, board and governance support and other essential business services. Other interests include the arts, with 11 feature length documentary film credits as writer, producer and director, and in excess of 10,000 photographs in print in national and international publications. Currently serves as Vice-President of the Board of Directors for The Sun Valley Ballet Foundation, Inc. (a non-profit 501c(3) organization) developing a world class performing arts organization to benefit the greater Wood River Valley. He has a BFA in Fine Arts from United States International University and professional developmental classes in business, finance, horticulture, mining and other disciplines. Fluent in Spanish and past fluency in French.
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About AppliedApps, Inc., Schieffelin and Gird, Inc., Taloa, Inc.: The self sovereign collection of data and documents by the consumer with mortgage delivery via distributed ledger, NFT and smart contracts.
Eddie Lee
President of Pledgecamp
Eddie Lee serves as the President at Pledgecamp where he is responsible of combining the aspects of Blockchain-security, transparency, and crowd-involvement to solve trust issues surrounding crowdfunding. Additionaly, he serves as an Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck.
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About Pledgecamp: Pledgecamp aims to disrupt the crowdfunding industry with blockchain-powered escrow features and token-incentivized user engagement.
Adil Adi
Founder and President of WorldLink
Under Adil’s leadership, WorldLink has grown from 1 employee to over 1,200 in offices throughout the world. Due to this growth, WorldLink received recognition from Inc., Deloitte, and others as it partnered with some of the world’s largest corporations around Cloud & Data/Analytics Consulting, Talent Solutions, and Managed Services. As CEO, has driven WorldLink’s vision and direction, including the formation of a unique investing model that guarantees that clients are benefitting from the latest wave of technology. Through this process, Adi and the WorldLink team have developed use cases and expertise around Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain applications. As recognition for his WorldLink vision, Adil was a 2016 Finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Southwest region.
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About WorldLink: WorldLink is a global technology firm that delivers three areas of Solutions: Talent, Data & Analytics Consulting, and Managed Services.
Lisa Abeyta
President and Co-Founder of CityLife
Lisa Abeyta is the founder and CEO of APPCityLife, a civic tech company which connects people and cities through a powerful, user-friendly platform delivering mobile solutions through open data for cities, non-profits and small businesses. She is also Cofounder of Hautepreneurs, LLC, the premier network for women entrepreneurs in New Mexico and HauteHopes, a nonprofit focused on empowering underprivileged women to achieve success as entrepreneurs. Lisa is a frequent speaker on civic tech, women in tech, and empowering women and girls in STEM. She serves on the Congressional Business Advisory Council for New Mexico Congresswoman Michele Lujan-Grisham. She also chairs the STEMabq Advisory Board and sits on the Albuquerque Women’s Entrepreneurial and Business Council. She has received the New Mexico Women In Technology Award and was also named a Woman of Influence by Albuquerque Business First. She has served since 2014 as a judge for the 2015 Stevie Business Awards for Women.
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About CityLife, Hautepreneurs, LLC: CityLife improves cities through technologies including Blockchain, voice, and native mobile apps.
Chris Boscolo
President & Founder of lifeID
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About Decent, lifeID: lifeID is the open-source, tokenized protocol for self-sovereign identity.
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.
Daniel Stanton
President & Co-Founder of SecureMarking
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About Bradley University, IBM, LinkedIn, SecureMarking, Techstars, Udemy, Wiley: SecureMarking is an unclonable nanotechnology solution for tracking authentic parts in a supply chain.
Kevin Brown
Senior Vice President of Clarity PR
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About Clarity PR: Clarity delivers tech PR campaigns for the world’s most exciting technology startups.
Dave Otander
Vice President of ULedger
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About ULedger: ULedger is building the Generation 4 Data BlockChain to power every busines
Chad Anderson
President of MTDigital Assets
Chad “Aroo” Anderson is a blockchain + cryptocurrency expert and ICO advisor who serves as President and Co-Founder of www.MTDigitalAssets.com a leading fund in the hyper growth blockchain industry. Chad started his career working in the finance department at Hewitt Associates a fortune 500 company now called Aon. He worked directly with the CFO, Director of Budgeting and Forecasting, and the Controller. Chad then moved on to myspace.com from 2004-2008 as a strategic marketing consultant. During that time the site grew to over 500 Million active users, and was acquired for 580 Million Dollars. His team worked on events including Lollapalooza, Sundance Film Fest, Ultra Music Fest, SxSw, and more. Upon leaving Myspace he joined the team at Engage BDR an LA based Ad-Tech firm in Strategic Marketing and Biz Dev Role. He helped grow the company to reaching over 500 Million monthly uniques. Chad left there in 2014 to found Aroo Industries a talent management and marketing company. His clients have worked with some of the biggest brands in the world including Calvin Klein, Victoria Secret, Coca Cola, Virgin, Patron, Grey Goose, Google, Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros and more.
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About MTDigital Assets: MTDigital Assets is a leading crypto currency fund based out of Southern California.
Youngrok Kim
Senior Vice President, Investments of Recruit Strategic Partners
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About Recruit Strategic Partners: Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups.
Shingo Kato
Senior Vice President & Head of US Investment, Investments of Recruit Strategic Partners
With a background in software engineering and AI research, Shingo’s area of expertise is AI, IoT, and Robotics. He has also worked as a system engineer and, for seven years, was in technical sales, selling collaboration software such as Lotus Notes.
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About Recruit Strategic Partners: Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups.
Andrew Storms
Vice President, Security and Product of New Context
Andrew Storms is an Information Technology & Security executive with over 20 years of achievement delivering solutions that optimize performance, security, and efficiency for industry-leading companies. Andrew’s current work with New Context Services involves providing leadership in the areas of Information security and product development. He serves as a project lead for CES-21 – an initiative researching methods to perform automated cybersecurity threat detection and response within electrical utility operational networks. His past roles include Senior Director of DevOps at CloudPassage and Director of Information, Technology & Security at nCircle. He is a CISSP, a member of Infragard and a graduate of the FBI Citizens’ Academy and a member of the open standards technical committee for STIX,TAXII and OpenC2.
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About New Context: New Context is a provider of multi-cloud DevSecOps services to large enterprise, infrastructure and government cloud customers.
Max Fang
President of Blockchain at Berkeley
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About Blockchain at Berkeley: Blockchain at Berkeley is a university-based eco-system for blockchain.
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.
John Ainsworth
President/CEO of Bonifii
John Ainsworth, CULedger’s founder and CEO.
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About Bonifii: Bonifii operates as a credit union service organization focusing on the credential exchange, information exchange, and value exchange.
Rhiannon Payne
President & CEO & Founder of Sea Foam Media & Technology
Rhiannon is the CEO & Founder of Sea Foam Media & Technology, a SF-based studio that is working with blockchain, AI, and other emerging technology companies with end-to-end editorial, design, and engineering services. Rhiannon is passionate about the ethos of blockchain and distributed systems, particularly how it can apply to the way companies and individuals work and do business going into the 2020s.
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About Sea Foam Media & Technology: Sea Foam helps companies define a real vision, get seen by investors, and build impactful products.
Bill Benson
Vice-President of Team Clermont
Cofounders Bill Benson and Nelson Wells are veterans in the music business and know how to craft the most successful pr & radio campaigns in the US. Team Clermont is a PR Firm in the Music Industry specializing in public relations and radio promotion for independent national & international artists from around the world ~ indie, major & truly independent. Contact Bill or Nelson and the team at Team Clermont in our Athens GA headquarters at [email protected] or http://teamclermont.com
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About Team Clermont: Team Clermont is the premiere independent boutique music & tech PR firm in the US executing campaigns in #PR, #publicity, #press tech &radio
Jorden Woods
President, Managing Partner and Founder of DoubleNova Group
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About DoubleNova Group, Paradigms Consulting Group, StarChain Ventures, TiE Silicon Valley: DoubleNova Group is a boutique management consultancy with a focus on high tech startups, SMEs and Global 2000 technology companies.
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.
Christopher McDaniel
President of The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative
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About The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative: Industry-led consortium collaborating to unlock the potential of distributed ledger technology across the insurance industry.
Kate Lam
Vice President, Institutional Sales and Investor Relations of Propellr
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About Propellr: Propellr is a creation, management, and servicing platform for digitally held assets.
Cass Fuller
Vice President, Operations of Propellr
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About Propellr: Propellr is a creation, management, and servicing platform for digitally held assets.
Michael Smith
Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Operations of Voice Life
Michael Smith is the Co-Founder and the Vice President of Business Operations at Voice Life.
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About Voice Life: Voice Life is a technology company focused on the development, integration and application of delivering a FAST charge to mobile devices.
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