Splend Welcomes Industry-Leading Board of Advisors

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Sep 6, 2018 · 3 min read

Hello everyone and thanks for subscribing to Splend’s blog. Today, we are presenting our global advisory board. It unites top-ranked experts in investment, finance, and blockchain to provide strategic guidance to Splend and playing a key role in setting the direction for the company’s activities. Their expertise, combined with Splend team’s vision, gives us an unprecedented advantage to bring the blockchain to the next level.

Big names in investment

In Splend’s Advisory Board, we gathered exceptional professionals with decades of experience in the investment field. Our advisors’ support and belief in our technology and vision is affirmation to Splend’s path to success.

James Boettcher, Focus Ventures, Advisor at Splend

James Boettcher is a general partner at Focus Ventures. The company invests in privately held, technology, communications and software companies and has over $830 million USD under management.

James was a lecturer at Stanford University, and has MBA and MA degrees from Stanford University. Also, his expertise has been proven by Forbes: he was 37th on its 2011 Midas List.

Prem Nath, Angel Investor, Advisor at Splend

We also have the approval of Prem Nath, an angel investor in Silicon Valley with 35+ years of experience in the semiconductor and software industries. For the last 18 years he works as an entrepreneur and investor at Network Angel Capital.

He was a founder and CEO at Mediamatics Inc., later acquired by National Semiconductor.

Martin Graham, Fineqia International, Advisor at Splend

We also have and appreciate the support of Martin Graham, chairman at Fineqia International and Chairman Advisory Board at Tender Capital Limited. For 7 years, he was AIM Chairman at the London Stock Exchange, where he personally led the establishment of London as the major source of capital for international companies.

Martin held a position of non-executive director at the Moscow Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana. He is an international technology and markets expert with a strong track record of leading teams, and is passionate about creating a global economy which works in the interest of mankind.

Sharks on board

Armando Castro, Pillsbury Law Firm, Advisor at Splend

We have corporate law and governance thoroughly covered thanks to the deep knowledge of Armando Castro, partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and counsel of 25 publicly traded companies.

His experience covers domestic, international and cross border aspects of legal and business matters.

VR Ranganath, CAST, Advisor at Splend

Another Splend advisor — VR Ranganath, Managing Director at CAST and LHI Investments partner.

He was a founder of Alliance Venture Management, the venture capital investment company specializing in companies working with networking and communications, storage, software, and mixed signal components.

We appreciate his experience in system and semiconductor management and marketing, which is very valuable for our future development.

Joe Zou, Blockchain Expert, Advisor at Splend

For additional blockchain and computing strategic advice, we invited Joe Zou to join our advisory board.

He has extensive and impressive knowledge in IT architecture at IBM Australia.

Also, he is the main author of the first blockchain technical book in China: “Blockchain Technical Guide” and holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and MBA from Macquarie University.

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Silicon Valley startup solving performance bottlenecks of the blockchain infrastructure. https://splend.io

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