William Mougayar
Board Advisor
We are now entering the blockchain economy, and it might dwarf the Web economy over the next several years.
About
William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016, translated in 10 languages). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.
William is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, and the Kin Foundation, a leading in-apps cryptocurrency for digital services. He is a former Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, Stratumn (France) and OMERS Ventures. He is an advisor or investor in several other leading blockchain organizations. William is the founder of The Token Summit, and manages WMX, a cryptocurrency index fund on ICONOMI. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.
Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and AberdeenGroup, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.