Blockchain and Crypto
Blockchain and Crypto
Ended Sabbatical and current Founder Advisor to Alchemist Accelerator and various AI and Crypto seed startups in SF and Luxembourg including Sub7 and CourseFactory.
Named Superior SERVICE PROVIDER TO CLEAR VENTURES, Venture Capital Palo Alto: Fractional GC for three of ten early seed portfolio companies Nov 2015 to PRESENT.
Ended Sabbatical and current Founder Advisor to Alchemist Accelerator and various AI and Crypto seed startups in SF and Luxembourg including Sub7 and CourseFactory.
Named Superior SERVICE PROVIDER TO CLEAR VENTURES, Venture Capital Palo Alto: Fractional GC for three of ten early seed portfolio companies Nov 2015 to PRESENT.
Practice Areas
Practice Areas
Senior member of the executive team with significant commercial transactions expertise and practical business-oriented approach, a trusted advisor, skilled negotiator, collaborative manager, and team player embraced by all departments.
Proton (XPR) is a new public blockchain and smart contract platform designed for both consumer applications and peer-peer payments. Proton provides a secure, verified identity account which is integrated with a financial settlements layer that allows users to directly link this identity with fiat accounts, pull funds and buy crypto, and use that crypto seamlessly in apps, all without sending any of the user’s private, sensitive information. Proton removes the concept of sharing private keys directly with merchants, instead creating a permission-less layer that exists on top of traditional card networks and banks. https://www.protonchain.com/ See also PROTON NFT Market Place and Foundation.
Metal Pay is a blockchain-based P2P payment platform that rewards you in cryptocurrency. https://www.metalpay.com/
Metal X is a revolutionary new crypto exchange. https://www.metalx.com/
Senior member of the executive team with significant commercial transactions expertise and practical business-oriented approach, a trusted advisor, skilled negotiator, collaborative manager, and team player embraced by all departments.
Proton (XPR) is a new public blockchain and smart contract platform designed for both consumer applications and peer-peer payments. Proton provides a secure, verified identity account which is integrated with a financial settlements layer that allows users to directly link this identity with fiat accounts, pull funds and buy crypto, and use that crypto seamlessly in apps, all without sending any of the user’s private, sensitive information. Proton removes the concept of sharing private keys directly with merchants, instead creating a permission-less layer that exists on top of traditional card networks and banks. https://www.protonchain.com/ See also PROTON NFT Market Place and Foundation.
Metal Pay is a blockchain-based P2P payment platform that rewards you in cryptocurrency. https://www.metalpay.com/
Metal X is a revolutionary new crypto exchange. https://www.metalx.com/
Senior member of the executive team with significant commercial transactions expertise and practical business-oriented approach, a trusted advisor, skilled negotiator, collaborative manager, and team player embraced by all departments.
Proton (XPR) is a new public blockchain and smart contract platform designed for both consumer applications and peer-peer payments. Proton provides a secure, verified identity account which is integrated with a financial settlements layer that allows users to directly link this identity with fiat accounts, pull funds and buy crypto, and use that crypto seamlessly in apps, all without sending any of the user’s private, sensitive information. Proton removes the concept of sharing private keys directly with merchants, instead creating a permission-less layer that exists on top of traditional card networks and banks. https://www.protonchain.com/ See also PROTON NFT Market Place and Foundation.
Metal Pay is a blockchain-based P2P payment platform that rewards you in cryptocurrency. https://www.metalpay.com/
Metal X is a revolutionary new crypto exchange. https://www.metalx.com/
Senior member of the executive team with significant commercial transactions expertise and practical business-oriented approach, a trusted advisor, skilled negotiator, collaborative manager, and team player embraced by all departments.
Proton (XPR) is a new public blockchain and smart contract platform designed for both consumer applications and peer-peer payments. Proton provides a secure, verified identity account which is integrated with a financial settlements layer that allows users to directly link this identity with fiat accounts, pull funds and buy crypto, and use that crypto seamlessly in apps, all without sending any of the user’s private, sensitive information. Proton removes the concept of sharing private keys directly with merchants, instead creating a permission-less layer that exists on top of traditional card networks and banks. https://www.protonchain.com/ See also PROTON NFT Market Place and Foundation.
Metal Pay is a blockchain-based P2P payment platform that rewards you in cryptocurrency. https://www.metalpay.com/
Metal X is a revolutionary new crypto exchange. https://www.metalx.com/
Transactional and Regulatory
Compliance
Transactional and Regulatory
Compliance
Transactional and Regulatory
Compliance
Transactional and Regulatory
Compliance
Last served as GC/CCO for a consumer and institutional social crypto exchange wallet as qualifying individual NMLS-named GC/CCO for all MTLS.
Recognized as highly successful General Counsel for a fintech payments and cryptocurrency peer to peer startup, guiding the company through two mergers and three successful product launches: Metal Pay 3.0 App a blockchain-based platform that enables faster P2P payments and rewards users for payments in fiat and crypto, Metal X (4/2020), a crypto exchange and launching the Proton blockchain, the Proton NFT Marketplace, and Proton Foundation LLC which has been rebranded hence.
Last served as GC/CCO for a consumer and institutional social crypto exchange wallet as qualifying individual NMLS-named GC/CCO for all MTLS.
Recognized as highly successful General Counsel for a fintech payments and cryptocurrency peer to peer startup, guiding the company through two mergers and three successful product launches: Metal Pay 3.0 App a blockchain-based platform that enables faster P2P payments and rewards users for payments in fiat and crypto, Metal X (4/2020), a crypto exchange and launching the Proton blockchain, the Proton NFT Marketplace, and Proton Foundation LLC which has been rebranded hence.
Ended Sabbatical and current Founder Advisor to Alchemist Accelerator and various AI and Crypto seed startups in SF and Luxembourg including Sub7 and CourseFactory.
Named Superior SERVICE PROVIDER TO CLEAR VENTURES, Venture Capital Palo Alto: Fractional GC for three of ten early seed portfolio companies Nov 2015 to PRESENT.
Blockchain and Crypto
- Head of global legal and global business operations functions, reporting directly to the CEO
- Providing executive level counsel, legal and operational guidance, and strategic support
- Mergers / Acquisitions / Corporate Development / Venture / Fundraising / Financing
- Corporate Securities / Board of Directors / Corporate Governance
- SaaS / Software / Commercial Agreements
- Intellectual Property / Trademarks/ Licensing / Defense / Strategy
- Data Privacy / Protection / Privacy Compliance with CCPA and GDPR
- Negotiated all agreements pertaining to Private Equity Management (Domestic + International)
- Drafted and negotiated all Channel / Partnership Agreements
- Domestic and International Employment Issues
- Provided all Legal Infrastructure Management
- Conducted and negotiated all Domestic / International Real Estate Transactions
- Negotiated all Inbound Vendor and all outbound Global licensing agreements with all third parties globally
- Handled all International Negotiations
- Head of global legal and global business operations functions, reporting directly to the CEO
- Providing executive level counsel, legal and operational guidance, and strategic support
- Mergers / Acquisitions / Corporate Development / Venture / Fundraising / Financing
- Corporate Securities / Board of Directors / Corporate Governance
- SaaS / Software / Commercial Agreements
- Intellectual Property / Trademarks/ Licensing / Defense / Strategy
- Data Privacy / Protection / Privacy Compliance with CCPA and GDPR
- Negotiated all agreements pertaining to Private Equity Management (Domestic + International)
- Drafted and negotiated all Channel / Partnership Agreements
- Domestic and International Employment Issues
- Provided all Legal Infrastructure Management
- Conducted and negotiated all Domestic / International Real Estate Transactions
- Negotiated all Inbound Vendor and all outbound Global licensing agreements with all third parties globally
- Handled all International Negotiations
- Head of global legal and global business operations functions, reporting directly to the CEO
- Providing executive level counsel, legal and operational guidance, and strategic support
- Mergers / Acquisitions / Corporate Development / Venture / Fundraising / Financing
- Corporate Securities / Board of Directors / Corporate Governance
- SaaS / Software / Commercial Agreements
- Intellectual Property / Trademarks/ Licensing / Defense / Strategy
- Data Privacy / Protection / Privacy Compliance with CCPA and GDPR
- Negotiated all agreements pertaining to Private Equity Management (Domestic + International)
- Drafted and negotiated all Channel / Partnership Agreements
- Domestic and International Employment Issues
- Provided all Legal Infrastructure Management
- Conducted and negotiated all Domestic / International Real Estate Transactions
- Negotiated all Inbound Vendor and all outbound Global licensing agreements with all third parties globally
- Handled all International Negotiations
- Head of global legal and global business operations functions, reporting directly to the CEO
- Providing executive level counsel, legal and operational guidance, and strategic support
- Mergers / Acquisitions / Corporate Development / Venture / Fundraising / Financing
- Corporate Securities / Board of Directors / Corporate Governance
- SaaS / Software / Commercial Agreements
- Intellectual Property / Trademarks/ Licensing / Defense / Strategy
- Data Privacy / Protection / Privacy Compliance with CCPA and GDPR
- Negotiated all agreements pertaining to Private Equity Management (Domestic + International)
- Drafted and negotiated all Channel / Partnership Agreements
- Domestic and International Employment Issues
- Provided all Legal Infrastructure Management
- Conducted and negotiated all Domestic / International Real Estate Transactions
- Negotiated all Inbound Vendor and all outbound Global licensing agreements with all third parties globally
- Handled all International Negotiations
Fractional General Counsel
Fractional General Counsel
Accomplished, results-oriented senior GLOBAL GC/Interim CCO AND COO with extensive experience as the first in command, General Counsel/CCO, Privacy Officer for crypto startups ($175M+), emerging growth technology companies (Series D+) and public companies. Previously, Interim GC for private early seed stage, Series A and B) and emerging growth technology companies (Series D+).
A team leader who works independently and thrives effervescently in a dynamic international business environment.
Top legal executive with 25+ years of transactional, strategic advisory, and regulatory compliance experience, both in-house.
Accomplished, results-oriented senior GLOBAL GC/Interim CCO AND COO with extensive experience as the first in command, General Counsel/CCO, Privacy Officer for crypto startups ($175M+), emerging growth technology companies (Series D+) and public companies. Previously, Interim GC for private early seed stage, Series A and B) and emerging growth technology companies (Series D+).
A team leader who works independently and thrives effervescently in a dynamic international business environment.
Top legal executive with 25+ years of transactional, strategic advisory, and regulatory compliance experience, both in-house.