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Our team has a wealth of experience from the realms of technology, entertainment,
Blockchain, social media, influencer marketing, gaming, and finance, and
are highly successful in start-ups and business scaling.

Alexander Riggs-Miller

Founder
CEO / CTO

 

Alexander Riggs-Miller
Founder & Chief Executive Officer / CTO

Alex Riggs-Miller has over 23 years of experience in IT consulting, business management and business consulting with a global acumen spanning 10 countries. He is a technical consultant, business consultant and entrepreneur in the following industries: technology, crowdfunding, entertainment, content delivery networks (CDN), social media, content management systems (CMS), blockchain and related technologies. He has held global strategic and operational roles in some of the world’s key companies: Citrix Systems, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Goldman Sachs, and John Hancock Financial.

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Cameron Casey
Co-Founder
Chief Creative Officer

Cameron Casey
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Cameron has over 30 years of broadcast TV, feature films, digital content, and product marketing experience. Cameron has worked with top brands across the US and internationally: Sony, Honeywell, Max Factor, Estee Lauder Chanel, Unilever, Panasonic, and Apple; he's worked on hundreds of hit music videos for Missy Elliot, Ice Cube, Warren G, Jay Z, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Tears for Fears, Goo Goo Dolls, LL Cool J, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and many more. Casey’s television programming has been featured on HBO, NBC, ABC, E!, FOX, MTV, VH1, Disney, Universal, Discovery, Bloomberg TV and magazines, like Billboard and SHOOT.

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Chris Saito
Chief Operating Officer

Chris Saito
Chief Operating Officer

Chris is a marketing executive with ventures integrating film, television, music, streaming content, mobile games, art, technology, electronics, publishing and philanthropy. He combines creativity with the ability to engage global audiences and an understanding of "what's next" to deliver and distribute innovative ideas. He has worked for the following premiere companies: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Universal Studios, MGM, Warner Bros., VDO 3D GO, Like Pizza Entertainment and Technicolor.

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Sean Caputo
Blockchain Developer

Sean Caputo
Blockchain Developer

Mr. Caputo is an EIR (Entrepreneur In Residence) at Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Vonzo Partners. His primary role is technical due diligence, vetting and validating incoming investment opportunities. As Chief Strategist, Mr. Caputo’s mission is to constantly be vetting new ideas and pushing technology boundaries. As a Premier Partner of Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon, he evaluates and expertly deploys the smartest technologies from the industry's top brands. His innovation team is in constant investigation and practical application as they launch new AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Chatbot, Blockchain and emerging cloud solutions.

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Karthik Pichai
Blockchain Developer

Karthik Pichai
Blockchain Developer

Mr. Pichai’s mission is to transform how enterprises do business using innovative technologies. Mr. Pichai is an EIR (Entrepreneur In Residence) at Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Vonzo Partners. His primary role is technical due diligence, vetting and validating incoming investment opportunities.

Mr. Pichai has partnered with the top production companies in the world like Google, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon to encapsulate their technologies in innovative solutions. His engineering team constantly evaluates emerging technology like AI, Machine Learning, IOT, Chatbot, and Blockchain to solve business problems.

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Brian O’Neill
Legal Counsel

Brian O'Neill
Legal Counsel

Brian O’Neill is the Managing Partner of the law firm O’Neill & Partners LLC. Brian counsels clients on a wide range of legal, regulatory and compliance matters. Brian’s practice focuses on broker-dealer relationships, exchange regulatory compliance issues, and advising companies on matters related to compliance with SEC and self-regulatory organization (SRO) regulations. In addition, Brian provides outside general counsel services to foreign and domestic entities in the financial services, energy, construction, hospitality, medical and health services, agriculture, and technology industries. As part of his general counsel services, he advises companies on corporate formation, employment documentation, IP strategy, real estate, contract drafting, and capital raising.

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Advisors

World-class team of Advisors that span entertainment,
business, finance and technology.

Brian D. Evans
Marketing

Brian D. Evans
Marketing

Brian is an Inc. 500 Entrepreneur and Forbes #7 marketing influencer, the founder of the 25th fastest growing advertising and marketing agency in America, and the founder of Influencive.com. Brian has spent over 15 years in online advertising and directly helped multiple top-10 apps acquire millions of users. He was ranked as one of the top influencers in the world on Forbes, and as the 4th most influential business journalist in the world.

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Dan Fleyshman
Social Media / Strategy

Dan Fleyshman
Social Media / Strategy

Dan Fleyshman is the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history. At the age of 23, after selling $15M of clothing in six department store chains and surpassing expectations with his $9.5M licensing deal with STARTER apparel, Dan launched the “Who’s Your Daddy” energy drink into 55,000 retail stores and military bases.

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Branden Hampton
Social Media / Strategy

Branden Hampton
Social Media / Strategy

Forbes rated #1 social media influencer, Branden Hampton is the pioneer of influencers. Branden has been creating social media brands and marketing on social media since 2009 and has amassed a network of over 35,000,000 followers across some of the largest verticals in the world.

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Any Abramson
Strategy / M&A

Any Abramson
Strategy / M&A

CEO, Comunicano, Inc. Providing brand strategy, asymmetrical communications counsel to companies in the high technology, wireless health, telecom, wireless, mobile, 2.0, broadband, live entertainment, concert and events, financial services sectors…. Extensive experience with technology, online and media start-ups. Also, over 42 years of sports and consumer marketing, journalism, information dissemination and public relations. In the last 17 years 46 clients have exited M&A or IPO.

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Ned Nalle

Global Entertainment

Ned Nalle
Global Entertainment

Former President of Universal Worldwide Television. Entertainment executive and producer with a track record of at least one series broadcast during each new television season over the past twenty-five years. He has developed, licensed and produced drama series for ABC Studios. Negotiated worldwide license agreements for Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and iTunes, and has successfully brokered long-term pay television movie output deals with HBO, Showtime, and channels in Europe and Canada.

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Beej Gefsky

Entertainment

Beej Gefsky
Media & Entertainment

Beej oversees all content acquisitions for Blue Wave Media, a global leader in technology and content distribution. He has taken the company from 20,000 titles to over 75,000, including clients such as Discovery Networks, A&E Networks, The Henson Company and DreamWorks (Animation). Blue Wave is distributed in 190 countries on platforms that include digital, mobile, Smart TV, cable VOD, OTT and in over a million hotel rooms around the world. Beej created and produced TV shows for multiple networks including ABC, FOX, MTV, UPN and the CW. After 4 years of producing, Beej oversaw all of TV acquisitions for the Comcast-owned G4 TV Network (80 million homes).

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Gabriela Tagliavini

Film & Entertainment

Gabriela Tagliavini
Film & Entertainment

Gabriela Tagliavini is an award winning writer/director who was nominated for two Imagen Awards (US Latino Oscars) for Best Director and Best Picture of the year. Argentine/Italian award-winning writer/director. 10 years’ experience. Directed 6 feature films. “Border Run” (aka “The Mule”) staring Sharon Stone and Billy Zane. The film was nominated for Best Picture. As a writer-director, “Without Men,” staring Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”) and Christian Slater (“True Romance”). “Ladies’ Night” (distributed by Disney/Buena Vista) was the #1 movie in the box office in Mexico. It won three MTV Latin Movie Awards. TV film, the Viacom/VH1/MTV/Maverick feature “30 Days Until I’m Famous,” premiered on VH1.

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Val Bercovici

Technical Advisor

Val Bercovici
Technical Advisor

Val Bercovici is the founder and CEO of Pencil Data Inc. as well as a founding member of the governing board at the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF), the Linux Foundation’s home for Google’s Kubernetes technology. Val has also enjoyed a long career at NetApp/SolidFire launching multibillion-dollar storage products, creating the competitive team and strategy, directing new research investments for the NetApp Data Fabric roadmap, and serving as SolidFire CTO.

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Chris Hayman

Film, TV & Music

Chris Hayman
Film, TV & Music

Chris Hayman is an award-winning composer with over 12 years of experience creating immersive content for some of the world’s biggest companies. As the founder of both Sonic Gods (music) and Sentient Sky (production/post), Chris has brought together a team of some of the most exciting talent in the world, who have pushed the creative bar for companies such as DreamWorks, Mattel, Warner Bros, Sony, Universal, Disney, Unilever, Lexus, and Ubisoft—to name only a few.

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Per Sjöfors
Financial Strategy

Per Sjöfors
Financial Strategy

Expert in pricing as a key business driver and founder of Atenga. Prior to Atenga, Per has over 25 years of executive management experience and has founded and built a number of successful, and very profitable, sales and marketing companies in Europe and in the US. Per also co-founded the industry association G-SAM and has published a number of articles of articles in the industry press. Per has worked with some of leading companies around the world. Trip Advisor, Telzio, BNI, ViTech, D’Addario and CGA Canada.

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Tom Malloy

TV, Film, Streaming

Tom Malloy
TV, Film, Streaming

A critically acclaimed and award-winning actor, Tom initially wowed Hollywood with his stunning turn in the indie-cult favorite GRAVESEND in 1998, which was produced by Oliver Stone. Tom became a trendsetter as one of the first successful triple-hyphenate Actor/Writer/Producers and has raised more than $25 million in private equity from independent financiers and has written, produced and starred or co-starred in films that his company Trick Candle Productions has made. Finally, for over 10 years, Tom was a nationally known motivational speaker for adults and kids and has traveled across the country spreading his positive message to students of all ages. Over the years, he has spoken to more than 100,000 students.

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Douglas Dear

Business and Financial

Douglas Dear
Business and Financial

Douglas Dear is President of Chesapeake Ventures LLC, a private investment company, focused on investments in residential land development, income producing real estate and business interests. Douglas was a Senior Vice President and National Director of Originations for the WMF Group (NASDAQ WMFG), where he led the company’s multifamily production efforts and guided their IPO. WMF was one of the largest publicly held commercial mortgage firms in the country before being acquired by Prudential in 2000. He and his team produced in excess of $3 billion in financings. He served as Managing Director of the National Multifamily Lending Group for Prudential Mortgage Capital Company (NYSE PRU).

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Carolina Fryer

Product Marketing

Carolina Fryer
Product Marketing

Carolina has 14 years of Marketing experience with top-tier consumer product goods companies and two years as Founder of a Natural food start-up. Experienced in strategy, brand building, consumer insights, brand activation and commercialization. Carolina’s experience in Brand Marketing covers running day-to-day operations and driving growth for multi-million-dollar brands, launching new products, developing long-term strategies as well as development of TV, print and on-line branding. Managed a $300M business across WhiteWave brands to create $21M in gross sales, restructure for a $100M segment. Carolina is a guerilla marketer (NY Times square), generating overwhelming PR results that won several awards including “Public Relations Innovator”.Carolina has 14 years of Marketing experience with top-tier consumer product goods companies and two years as Founder of a Natural food start-up. Experienced in strategy, brand building, consumer insights, brand activation and commercialization. Carolina’s experience in Brand Marketing covers running day-to-day operations and driving growth for multi-million-dollar brands, launching new products, developing long-term strategies as well as development of TV, print and on-line branding. Managed a $300M business across WhiteWave brands to create $21M in gross sales, restructure for a $100M segment. Carolina is a guerilla marketer (NY Times square), generating overwhelming PR results that won several awards including “Public Relations Innovator”.

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Steve Hasty

Media & Entertainment

Steve Hasty
Media & Entertainment

Steve Hasty has over 25 years of media business experience and has produced, written and directed over 100 episodes of network television programming. Producing a diversity of content for Fox, CBS, ABC, The Sportsman Channel and The Outdoor Channel Steve established himself as an award-winning television producer who knows how to both maximize a budget as well as his resources. Composing visual marketing campaigns with companies such as Under Armour, Ford, and Remington has developed his extensive knowledge of branding in today’s entertainment. Steve engaged in a rigorous social media campaign to produce his documentary film “Healing Waters” that resulted in one of the highest ranked projects on Kickstarter.

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