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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 Chicago based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Edward Woodford
Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash
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About Zero Hash: Zero Hash is a B2B digital assets-as-a-service technology platform that offers turnkey solutions such as NFTs for its clients.
Danny Johnson
CEO, Co-Founder of Pinkcoin
Danny has been involved in the Blockchain space since 2013 and is currently the CTO of Food & Paper Supply Co. in Chicago, IL. Previously he was a Professional Poker Player and Coach for 10 years. Danny has always been a champion for charities and those in need of assistance, often donating his time and energy to charitable efforts which is rooted in the vision of Pinkcoin. Danny received a BSBA in Marketing as well as an MBA from Hawaii Pacific University.
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About Pinkcoin: The world’s most advanced blockchain based donation platform for social impact.
Andrew J. Filipowski
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Fluree
Executive Chairman and CEO, Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, is one of the world’s most successful high-tech entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and industry visionaries. The former COO of Cullinet, the largest software company of the 1980’s, was also the founder and CEO of PLATINUM technology, inc. Flip grew PLATINUM into the 8th largest software company in the world at the time of its sale to Computer Associates for $4 billion dollars, the largest such transaction for a software company at the time. Upside Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Information Technology. A recipient of Entrepreneur of the Year Awards from both Ernst & Young and Merrill Lynch, Flip has also been awarded the Young President’s Organization Legacy Award and the Anti-Defamation League’s Torch of Liberty award for his work fighting hate on the Internet.
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About Barefoot Landing, Fluree, HardMetrics, Interact Public Safety, MissionMode, Pendulab, SilkRoad Equity, Solidspace, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: Open source semantic graph database that guarantees data integrity, facilitates secure data sharing, and powers connected data insights.
Amando Boncales
Founder & CEO of Htmlcoin
Collective imagination is something I see as essential to the human experience. After all, we humans are equally imaginative, creative, and social. We want to explore and discover, but we want to do it together. I believe our common aspirations, goals, and experiences will guide the movement and advancement of “decentralized technology” in the blockchain environment. As a blockchain evangelist, my goal is to deliver, through HTMLCOIN, innovative distributed ledger-based products and services. I am a Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University. I have completed the defense of my dissertation and am currently engaged in the revision process. I am scheduled to receive my doctorate degree next year.
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About Htmlcoin: HTMLcoin is a cryptocurrency with a secure blockchain based on Bitcoin Core that integrates Ethereum based smart contracts.
Alan Waldman
CEO of Avansa
Alan Waldman is the chief executive officer of Avansa.
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About Avansa: Avansa is a computer software company that specializes in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and software.
Jeff Guzzi
Founder and CEO of Visionary Financial (VF)
Jeff has acquired hands on experience in Portfolio Management, Venture Capital and Private Equity. Between Merrill Lynch / Edge and a mid-sized asset manager in Chicago, he earned a Series 7, Series 63 and Series 65. Jeff started investing, researching & mining cryptocurrency in 2013. He founded Visionary Financial because he strongly believes Crypto & Blockchain are going to change financial infrastructure.
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About Visionary Financial (VF): Global Crypto / Blockchain Media and PR Agency
Uri Klarman
CEO of BloXroute Labs
Uri Klarman is an interdisciplinary networks researcher and PhD at Chicago’s Northwestern University and the Co-Founder and CEO at bloXroute Labs. His work encompasses innovative uses of Computer Networks, disruptive blockchain networking schemes, alternative content distribution networks, trustless peer coordination, and security.
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About BloXroute Labs: BloXroute is a blockchain distribution network to help your blockchains scale to thousands of transactions/second on-chain.
Joe Lee
Chief Executive Officer of Gamerjibe
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About Gamerjibe: Metaverse-as-a-service platform for branded experiences and large-scale events
Robert Salvador
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of DigiBuild
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About DigiBuild, Techemy Ltd: DigiBuild develops a construction management software that utilizes blockchain technology.
James Wang
Founder & CEO of CoAlpha
Ph.D., in Computer Science from New York University B.S. from Peking University 10 years US Finance & Technology industry experience Formerly Senior Quantitative Researcher in Citadel LLC (a world famous hedge fund) Achieved over US$100 million in revenue Worked for Barclays Capital, Bloomberg Tradebook and Ask.com Graduated from Draper University 1st Executive Blockchain Program
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About CoAlpha: Blockchain Protocol, Investment Fund Issuing and Investment Platform
Dev Bharel
Principal Cofounder & CEO of Spaceman ID
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About Spaceman ID: A turnkey solution that any app or service can use to make digital identities private, secure, and portable.
Trilliam Jeong
Founder & CEO of WealthBlock
Trilliam is the CEO and founder of WealthBlock. Between 2012 and early 2018, Trilliam served as Lead Quantitative Analyst building the first quant team in the Market Regulation department of the National Futures Association. Meanwhile, Trilliam managed his own hedge fund, Aura Value International LLC, based on his proprietary quantitative-value model turning 300K initial investment to $1MM. Before NFA, Trilliam obtained his master’s degree in financial mathematics from the University of Chicago and another master’s degree in applied mathematics from Queens College, CUNY.
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About WealthBlock: WealthBlock is a technology firm that helps people take control of their financial future.
Mehdi Zhiri
Founder and CEO of Mosaique
Mehdi is a technology and innovation leader with a passion for customer-facing and business driven strategy. Very comfortable in client facing situations, he is a visionary when it comes to leading large client strategies and relying on technology to create stickiness and value add. Mehdi has been involved in Blockchain technology since December 2015, and he has gained a deep understanding of the concept from both a technical and functional point of view.
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About Mosaique: Next-generation post-trade platforms leveraging distributed ledger technology for increased straight-through-processing.
