Orvium appoints María del Carmen Pastor Sempere, Director of BAES Blockchain Lab LeapRate

August 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Orvium appoints María del Carmen Pastor Sempere, Director of BAES Blockchain Lab

Orvium, the open-source, decentralized platform for managing scholarly publications’ lifecycles and associated data, has just announced that María del Carmen Pastor Sempere, Director of BAES Blockchain Lab, has joined the project as a strategic advisor. This announcement comes following the establishment of a partnership between Orvium and BAES Blockchain Lab. I am excited to be…

August 09, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Two new members join bitcoin nonprofit BitGive's team

BitGive, the first Bitcoin nonprofit, has announced the addition of two new members to its expanding team. Rumi Morales, a partner at Outlier Ventures and a former executive at both CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), has joined BitGive’s all-star Board of Directors, which also includes Matthew Roszak, Patrick Murck, Dawn Newton, Karsten…

July 31, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FintruX Network welcomes Bob Rinaldi to its Board of Directors

FintruX Network, the global P2P lending ecosystem, has just announced a new addition to its Board of Directors, Bob Rinaldi, a serial entrepreneur and business director. FintruX Network is an online ecosystem that facilitates the lending and borrowing of finances to small businesses in a peer-to-peer marketplace powered by blockchain and no-code development. FintruX Network…

June 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain-based solution Shyft unveils board of advisors

The blockchain-based solution Shyft has just announced its high profile Board of Advisors. Shyft’s inaugural group of advisors bring deep industry knowledge from international business and finance, blockchain, economics, and Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance. The Board of Advisors will play a critical role in providing strategic guidance across multiple dimensions…

June 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digital advertising blockchain XCHNG brings new OnXCHNG partners on board

Kochava Labs SEZC, a research and development subsidiary of Kochava Inc., has announced new strategic partners to OnXCHNG, the partnership program for the industry's open source blockchain framework for the digital advertising ecosystem, XCHNG. New OnXCHNG partners include: supply-side network StormX, Inc. (maker of the Storm app and Storm Token); exchange and mediation companies Yield…

June 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

EY Oil & Gas Manager joins blockchain technology firm BTL Group

Alessa Popovic, previously Manager at EY’s EMEIA Oil & Gas Advisory Centre, has joined blockchain technology firm BTL Group (BTL) in their London office as Senior Business Development Manager. BTL is currently running OneOffice, the second phase of its European gas trading project along with a group of energy companies and supermajors. Alessa Popovic has…

June 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Decentral hires gamification pioneer Yu-kai Chou as CXO

Decentral Inc., Canada blockchain company and the creator of the multi-platform, multi-currency digital wallet Jaxx, has announced that gamification pioneer Yu-kai Chou has joined its executive team as Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Chou will spearhead the company’s gamification efforts within Jaxx Liberty, the newly unveiled single, gamified interface for everyone to experience the blockchain ecosystem…

June 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters Exec leaves to fight financing of terrorism in cryptocurrency

iComply Investor Services, a RegTech software company offering global regulatory automation service for blockchain securities, has just announced that Greg Pinn, head of World-Check for information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has resigned from his post to lead product strategy for iComply. Since 2009 Mr. Pinn led product development, technology, and strategy for World-Check, both before…

June 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former Apollo Group CIO Bob Carroll joins Dash Core Group

Dash, the digital currency for payments, has just announced that IT industry veteran Bob Carroll has joined as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Dash Core Group. As CTO, Carroll will be in charge of leading the continued development of the Dash network and its products, including the development and launch of Dash’s Evolution…

June 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CoinDesk launches CoinDesk Productions, hires two Bloomberg veterans

CoinDesk Inc., the digital media and information services company for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry and producer of Consensus, the largest and most prominent blockchain technology conference in the world, has announced the launch of its digital media production arm, CoinDesk Productions. CoinDesk Productions will be producing documentary series and features rooted in crypto and…

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