Today we are thrilled to announce some of the key members of our advisory board. We have been working with a team of top advisors to help bridge the gap between the crypto world and mainstream businesses and startups. Each advisor is playing an active role on our team to refine our technology, clarify our token economics, and strengthen our market development efforts.
Manie Eagar: Manie is an experienced global investment, merger and acquisition executive, with over 30 years of driving new wealth creation, business growth and strategic innovation. He is the founder and CEO of DigitalFutures B.U.I.L.D. (Blockchain User-centric Innovation & Leadership Development), and Chairman of The Blockchain Association of Canada. Previously, Manie has been involved in multiple successful startups, government policy developments, and global educational initiatives.
Hilary Carter: Hilary is the Director of Faculty at the Blockchain Research Institute, a Canadian-based global think tank. She has built a team of more than 50 thought leaders in blockchain technology to conduct the definitive investigation into blockchain applications, use cases and strategy world wide. Hilary is currently researching blockchain’s transformation of Social Media networks, and will bring exceptional insight to the IVEP protocol.
Michael Geist: Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Michael serves on many boards, including the Canadian Internet Registration Authority board, Internet Archive Canada board, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Advisory Board. Canadian Lawyer named him one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and his column on technology law issues regularly appears in the Globe and Mail.
Karthik Iyer: Karthik is the India Ambassador of the P2P- Foundation, the world’s largest think tank on decentralization and peer-to-peer dynamics. He is also the founder and CEO of BlockchainMonk, a DLT research and consulting firm and has over a decade of experience working for large technology firms, including Red Hat, Novell and Sun Microsystems.
Craig Ellish: Craig has more than 20 years experience in advertising sales in both traditional and digital media. He is currently the head of Video for Taboola, the leading native discovering platform in the world. Previously he was Senior Vice President, Advertiser Sales at ZINC. Prior he was Vice President of Sales and Publishing development for Lin Mobile.
Trevor Young: Trevor is the CTO and Head of Product at Shared, where he leads a team of developers and data scientists building innovative Ad tech. Prior to Shared, Trevor was the Head of Product Management at fintech company OANDA, building trading platforms for quantitative traders on currency exchanges instead of ad exchanges, along with launching an international payment platform and refreshing a SaaS business for financial data subscriptions.
Paul Lavoie: Paul co-founded TAXI, one of Canada’s most successful advertising agencies. Paul has worked with and successfully launched campaigns for BMW MINI, Viagra, Ombrelle, Williams Sonoma, CodeWarrior, TELUS Mobility, Clearnet, Amp’d Mobile and Mio Water (Kraft). He was selected as one of the 10 most influential pioneers in Canadian marketing over the past century, was the youngest inductee in the Canadian Marketing Hall of Fame, and has received five lifetime achievement awards including Quebec’s AAPQ Prix Hommage and the coveted ACA gold medal.
Sean Hutchinson: Sean has recently joined Data Sciences as President. Previous to Data Sciences, Sean was a Group Director at Facebook and responsible for such vertical teams as Retail, Ecommerce, Financial Services, Automotive, Consumer Packaged Goods and Telco and over $700m of revenue. Prior, Sean was Vice President of Product at Points (Nasdaq: PCOM) where he oversaw the product management team and growth of the Points Platform.
Thomas Budd: Tom is the co-founder of EtheraLabs and Dark Star Ventures, a crypto accelerator and asset fund respectively. He is a blockchain keynote speaker and has produced award winning cryptocurrency/blockchain research at Booz Allen. Tom’s blockchain experience includes managing roadmaps to ICO’s, whitepaper review based on industry best practices, optimizing token use case and fungibility, product development, executing multi channel marketing campaigns and building successful roadshow’s in India yielding $500,000 in raised institutional capital.
Christian Jacques: Christian is a partner in the corporate practice group of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP at their Montreal office, acting as co-chair of their Emerging Tech Practice since 2012. He provides strategic counseling to high-growth emerging companies in a broad range of industries, including blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Christian’s involvement with cryptocurrencies goes back to 2013, where he participated to the creation of the first Canadian Bitcoin Embassy located in Montreal.
Sep Alavi: Sep is the Co-founder at ICON Partners. He is also a Managing Partner at Residence Ventures and a Venture Partner at White Star Capital investing in Seed and Series A tech companies across the Atlantic. Sep has over a decade of experience in Financial Services and Capital Markets. He’s been investing in privately held early stage tech companies since 2012.
Yannick Folla: Yannick is the Co-founder at ICON Partners. He is also a Managing Partner at Residence Ventures, a Family Office investing in early stage tech ventures. His interest in cryptocurrencies emerged while researching Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2015 and was deepened by an early investment in Ethereum.
More industry experts are joining IVEP as we are writing these lines. Stay tuned for updates or follow along on telegram!
