Speakers

My experience has been primarily in the worlds of technology and finance. Mainly, in startups. My finance experience was generally in advisory roles, helping small-to-medium companies in industrial, low tech, service, or manufacturing industries. Generally working with private companies, I helped our clients work through shareholder buyouts, strategy, restructuring, turnarounds, and M&A activity. I I'm the CEO of CO2 Lock which is building out a truly scalable solution for CO2 storage. I also was the CEO of SpaceAlpha Insights. We are an Earth Observation company building cutting edge synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. The space-based technology can image at night, through clouds, through trees and the biomass, and even underground. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning tech which allows us to image as wide as 250 km and objects as small as 40 centimeters, and at the same time, track changes in elevation on the ground down to the millimeter level. The tech is hard, and the opportunity is massive. I also co-founded and was the CEO of Helios Wire, an Internet of Things startup that is building out a space-enabled IoT / M2M network. What we were doing was democratizing the Internet of Things and connecting remote places across the world. We were at the forefront of the integration between blockchain and IoT, the economy of things. We raised about $12 million, launched 2 satellites, signed $100 million in letters of intent from customers around the world and truly proved out the business model. In the fall of 2019, we successfully sold the company to a strategic investor. I also co-founded and was the CEO of UrtheCast for 5 years. We signed an agreement with the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) to install 2 cameras on the International Space Station. We took the pictures — and the first colour HD video from space — from those cameras and sold them into the Earth Observation industry and put them out online as well. Along the way we signed agreements with governments around the world, the UN, and brands like Pepsi. We built the company up to about 250 people over five years with seven offices around the world. We took the company public, raised $200 million and acquired a competitor for $100 million.