Meet the Team: CEO Pete Martin

Votem is led by some of the most influential people in the elections, business, and blockchain spaces. This series will bring to light these individuals and their roles at Votem.

Pete Martin (linkedIn)is the Founder and CEO of Votem and is a successful serial entrepreneur who has started and sold several businesses including most recently selling his consulting firm to KPMG, which provided the seed money to start Votem. Pete had successful careers with IBM and as an executive at SAP running an $80M business unit until starting his consulting firm. He has been in the technology business and enterprise-software space for more than 25 years.

Questions:

What was your original inspiration for Votem?

I was challenged by Peter Diamandis to define what my “massively transformative purpose” was; how I was going to positively impact 1 billion in the world before I died. Better access and more transparent voting came to mind as a global problem that needed to be fixed. This has become my life’s mission.

What is the biggest obstacle to Votem’s success?

There is a lot of reluctance to change and legitimate fears of hacking and compromise in the elections business. We can solve the technical challenges but the resistance to change and legislative and political headwinds will prove more challenging, but not insurmountable.

What are your long-term goals for the project?

We have a publicly stated goal to have 1 billion votes tallied through our platform by 2025, and we’re on track so far to meet that objective.

What should people expect from Votem in the near future?

Several versions of our CastIron blockchain-based mobile voting platform will be released, we expect to support our public sector customers in the upcoming 2018 U.S. election cycle and our Proof of Vote® Protocol is being thoroughly vetted and will be publicly released soon.

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