On Thursday, January 31st, Helium is hosting a meetup and panel discussion in Austin called Crossing the Crypto Chasm to explore the barriers that prevent everyone from participating in the new decentralized economy and look at companies solving real-world issues by bringing their projects to the masses.
Multicoin Capital
Tushar is a serial tech entrepreneur from NYC. Prior to founding Multicoin, Tushar founded ePatientFinder, a healthcare IT company specializing in data science to identify patients who are eligible for clinical trials. Tushar served as the COO of ePatientFinder, leading the development of the technology platform, the data science processes, and managing the day to day operations of the company. Tushar helped raise over $10M in venture capital for ePatientFinder and grew the company to 25 employees, over 2 million patients and hundreds of clients nationwide.
Tushar holds degrees in Finance and Political Science from NYU Stern.
Topl
After graduating high school in South Africa, Kim went backpacking through 18 developing countries, and while working for various NGO’s she was frequently made aware of the lack of adequate resources and need for access to low-cost capital. She decided to come to the US on a Division I Track and Field scholarship and is currently the first student at Rice University to simultaneously pursue an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Statistics.
Recently she co-founded Topl. Topl is building the technology necessary to support more flexible and impactful markets in emerging countries. By providing greater transparency and efficiency as well as blending socially and economically motivated interests, Topl is helping unlock these markets and their potential.
Falkon Ventures
Mr. Ballarta has extensive experience as an entrepreneur, investor, technologist, and strategic advisor. He was a member of the initial team at LifeProof, a California-based consumer electronics company that went through meteoric growth from 3 people to over 250 employees on three continents in three years before being sold to Otterbox. Mr. Ballarta is the Founder and CEO of Falkon Ventures, a transformative venture capital fund designed to catalyze technologies that provide sustainable solutions to global challenges, and holds a number of board, advisory, and mentor roles at private companies and organizations including Nebia, Barnana, Singularity University Labs (NASA Ames), 1776, UrbanX (BMW/MINI), DivInc, BAX, and is apart of the Founding Patron Council for Humanity 2.0 in collaboration with the Vatican.
Transmute
Karyl is the CEO and Cofounder of Transmute, a decentralized app engine for enterprise teams. In a world of DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) purists, Karyl is a proud DLT pragmatist. By integrating enterprise cloud infrastructure and blockchain technologies, Karyl believes we can build better businesses and secure a more just collective future.
Helium
Frank Mong is COO at Helium, where he is responsible for sales, marketing and business development for the company. Before Helium, Mong spent 20 years in cyber security including CMO at Hortonworks, SVP of Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, and VP/GM of security at HP.
Mong holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Helium
Coco Tang is the Director of Product at Helium. Prior to Helium, Coco was a Senior Product Manager at Zenfolio and Product Manager at Blackberry.
Coco graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Masters of Engineering.
