BTblock
FEATURED SERVICES
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Hybrid Model™
Validate ideas with speed and cost efficiency
Technical Development
From prototype to full-scale build, we are experts at all stages of the development process
Security Assessments
Minimize the risks of a cyber breach and help protect your businesses
Market Development
Identify key areas of opportunity to deploy new technology innovations
Marketing &
Brand Strategy
Your brand strategy should bring your competitive positioning to life
BTblock Team
TAMMY KAHN
CO-FOUNDER
Tammy has spent 15 years in digital marketing, e-commerce, and business development including leadership roles in both agencies and technology companies. Tammy was the Vice President of Market Development & Agency Relations at G2 Crowd, a B2B marketing platform backed by $45 million of venture capital. She is formerly the Founder & CEO of MarketMeSuite, one of the first social media marketing management platforms. Tammy founded MarketMeSuite in 2009 and closed $2.6 million of investment capital while building a user base of 80,000 businesses. Her company was acquired in 2014 by Vivial to integrate with their local online marketing software platform. Tammy has consulted on projects in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Micro-Finance, Business Solutions, and Adtech. Tammy recently brought to market an adtech company built on the blockchain, and has given talks on Blockchain disruption at numerous conferences.
BRIAN GALE
CO-FOUNDER
Brian is the former Head of Growth at the Stellar Development Foundation where he led the global marketing and strategy activities for the Stellar protocol and their native token, lumens (XLM) - a token with a $2.1b market cap. He has worked in advertising and marketing for the last 12 years. Starting off his career at Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles, he then moved to San Francisco where he spent four and a half years leading a sales development team at publicly traded publishing firm, Future US – ideating and producing integrated marketing campaigns for clients such as Google, UBISOFT, Hyundai, NVIDIA, Bethesda and dozens more in the video game and tech sector. Following his tenure at Future, he led the marketing departments at other high-growth startups around the globe focused on AR/AI, Video Games, Adtech, 3D-printing and Blockchain. Brian holds an MBA in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.
DAVID GARRITY
CO-FOUNDER
David Garrity has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He has held senior roles and board of director positions for both publicly held and private companies and has extensive experience in several disciplines including advisory, operations and research. David is founder of consulting firm, GVA Research, which advises clients such as The World Bank Group on technology issues and currently serves as Independent Director on the Board of BTCS Inc., a publicly-held U.S. company involved with Digital Assets and Blockchain. David previously served as CFO and Board Director at Interclick, Inc., a behavioral targeting internet advertising network as well as the Aspen Group, owner & operator of online university Aspen University. David appears regularly on CNBC, BNN, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Asia Times, Yahoo Finance, and other media outlets.
Thomas Olofsson
CTO
Thomas has served both as a CTO as well as a chief security officer. Thomas has an expertise in both software development of security products and services as well as consulting for large organizations on both technical security as well as risk management, and is the founder of the largest Swedish security conference, sec-t.org. Thomas is a Senior Cybercrime and information security specialist with a strong development background. With years of software development, penetration testing and risk analysis, Thomas believes that information security and data protection should be a part of the design of any information system, not just an afterthought. Thomas's specialities include: online threats, incident handling and response, secure development life cycle, PCI compliance, internet banking, application security, information security management, and cryptography.
Richard Malone
Associate Partner
Richard Malone is an early stage technology and blockchain investor, entrepreneur, and advisor. Before joining BTblock, Richard was an associate at Innovating Capital, a New York-based cryptocurrency hedge fund, and is currently a contributing writer at CoinCentral, a premier cryptocurrency and blockchain news website. Before entering the blockchain space, Richard founded and secured capital for a data analytics company, ZoomThru. Richard has also worked in politics as a research analyst for National Security Advisor and former Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.
Dr. Alex Cahana
Blockchain and Healthcare Lead
With over 25 years of experience in clinical medicine, Dr. Cahana consults multiple private and public companies, start-ups, healthcare organizations and the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT). Dr. Cahana advises on blockchain technology, digiceutical integration and healthcare redesign. After serving as Professor and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of Washington, Dr. Cahana is an Affiliate Professor in Science, Technology and Health Studies, is co-editor of the textbook Blockchain and Healthcare (a HIMSS publication), a top blogger on blockchain and healthcare on Medium and has published over one hundred articles.