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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 Massachusetts 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.
David García
CEO | Founding Managing Partner of Borderless Capital
Former Entrepreneur, Investor and current Founder & Managing Partner at Algo Capital.
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About Algorand, Borderless Capital, Crypto Assets Fund, Ripio: Borderless Capital is a Blockchain-focused venture capital group.
Andy Singleton
Founder, CEO of MaxOS
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About MaxOS: MaxOS expertise in blockchain, custom software development and mobile app development with a focus on the financial services industry.
Nimit S. Sawhney
Co-Founder,CEO of Voatz
Nimit has 14 years experience in mobile software development, information security, embedded systems including 5 yrs as the business/technical head of a R&D unit. Nimit holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Business Management from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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About Voatz: Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability.
Humayun Sheikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Fetch.AI
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Jeremy Kauffman
Founder & CEO of LBRY
Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime supporter of decentralized technology and freedom of information. Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science.
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About LBRY, Odysee: LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform that is decentralized and owned by its users
David Vorick
CEO of Nebulous
David Vorick is the CEO at Nebulous.
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About Nebulous, Skynet Labs: Nebulous expertise in designing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure.
Dave Balter
CEO of Flipside Crypto
Dave is the founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto, Inc., Inc, a company which characterizes cryptocurrencies. Previously, Dave was co-founder and CEO of Smarterer, a skills assessment company acquired by Pluralsight (NASDAQ: PS) in 2014. Post-acquisition, Dave was the Head of Transactions at Pluralsight, while also serving as a Board Observer. In 2001, Dave founded and was CEO of BzzAgent, a social media marketing company, which was acquired by dunnhumby, a division of Tesco in 2011. From 2011-2014 Dave sat on the Global Executive Team at dunnhumby, where he led all venture and M&A activity.
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About Boch Center, Flipside Crypto, True Ventures: Flipside Crypto provides analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations.
John Belizaire
CEO & Co-founder of Soluna
John Belizaire is an accomplished enterprise software entrepreneur with a track record of new venture development and management success. Prior to co-founding FirstBest, he was senior director of business development and strategic planning for BEA’s Ecommerce Applications Division, where he grew annual revenue to over $150 million. Before BEA, John co-founded The Theory Center, a leader in Java-based component software for enterprise applications. As CEO, he grew the company from inception to $10 million in revenue. BEA Systems acquired the company in 1999 for over $160 million. He was previously lead architect for Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, where he was responsible for the industry’s first implementation of network quality-of-service technology for personal computers.
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About BanQu, Center for American Entrepreneurship, Pilot Growth Equity, Soluna: Soluna is a blockchain company powering the blockchain-economy with low-cost renewable energy.
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.
Matt Zarracina
Co-Founder & CEO of True-Tickets
Matt Zarracina is the Co-Founder & CEO at true tickets.
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About Said Business School, University of Oxford, The Priyanka Foundation, True-Tickets: A secure contactless digital ticket delivery service that aims to make buying, selling and transferring live event tickets simple and safe.
Remy Carpinito
Co-founder & CEO of Esprezzo
Remy is the current founder and CEO of Esprezzo. Esprezzo looks to solve the blockchain industry’s largest growing problem, the lack of available blockchain development talent. Through a programmable middleware, library of SDK’s and command line tools, developers can build blockchain apps in the coding syntax they are familiar with. Esprezzo’s proof of stake MainNet is built upon the same technology thats been supporting the Open/Telecom system (Erlang) for 20+ years and is supported by a fabric of ephemeral side-chains providing developers faster data read and write times for their applications. Remy formerly drove CampusTap’s overall strategic vision while overseeing all facets of the company’s operations. His passions lie in innovation, software design and leadership. Remy is a relationship builder and is currently partnering with various institutions that share his vision about CampusTap. At the age of 17, Remy started his career as a TV sales associate and was named the #1 sales associate at Circuit City nationwide. From there, he started a dorm room tech consulting business while playing baseball at Suffolk University and pursuing dual degrees in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems.
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About CampusTap, CampusTap, Esprezzo: No-code automation platform for crypto and blockchain
Irene Hernandez
Founder and CEO of Gataca
Irene Hernández believes in universal digital identities as the foundational layer of a more inclusive, more efficient internet, and the cornerstone to unlock a myriad of new business models.
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About Gataca, Telefonica: Global is a digital ID that provides verified identities to deliver fast and secure customer onboarding experiences.
George Mylonakis
CEO of blockWRK
George Mylonakis is the Chief Executive Officer of blockWRK.
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About blockWRK: blockWRK replaces outdated compensation systems with WRK-powered smart contracts that automatically pay you for what you contribute
Matt Johnson
Founder and CEO of Omnistrat
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About Omnistrat: Integrated strategic collaboration
Eileen Hing
CEO & Founder of ZIOS3
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About ZIOS3: Patented smart contract engine for blockchain agnostic distributed ledger platform
