Meet our Leadership Team

Serial entrepreneurs in tech, media, and finance, as well as PhDs and engineering leaders from Fortune 500 companies

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Founder & CEO

Charlie Silver

Charlie is an entrepreneur with multiple successful startups in tech, media, and finance. He pioneered permission marketing company, RealAge, which he grew to 60M users before its acquisition by Hearst. He also co-founded Onramp Invest, Blockforce Capital, and Reality Shares, launching 7 publicly traded ETFs, including the first Blockchain equity ETF.

Director of Sales

Chantelle White

Chantelle is a seasoned adtech and emerging media strategist with 15 years in the trenches. As a go-to early-stage hire, she's led global operations and business development for multiple startups. Her superpower? Turning founders' visions into scalable realities.

COO & General Counsel

Jennifer Silver

Jennifer has over two decades of executive experience, ranging from brand strategy to business development, and communications.

She is an attorney and leadership consultant, and has served as an expert strategic advisor for numerous businesses as well as nonprofits.

Senior VP of Technology

Stephen Jacobson

Stephen brings 15+ years of diverse eng and tech leadership, spanning startups to large enterprises including SanMar's LAB71 and Funko. Known for building high-performing teams and innovative solutions, Stephen's expertise ranges from embedded technology to comprehensive e-commerce systems and digital platforms.

VP of Product Management

Michael Bushnell

With 10+ years of expertise shaping products from ideation to market leadership - from founding his own software solutions firm to spearheading game changing initiatives at Funko, Whym and other top-tier companies - Michael combines a passion for innovation with a track record in delivering real-world solutions.

Accounting Director

Ashley Tang

Ashley is a CPA and CMA with more than 15 years of accounting, finance, and management experience at companies including United Airlines and NRG Energy.

Ashley is also highly experienced in large scale merger and acquisition transactions.

Director of Operations

Virginie Saget

Virginie has 10+ years experience in IT project management for companies including Airbus and Continental where she drove teams to deliver complex embedded software. Certified in Project Management (PMP®) and Agile Methodologies (CSM® & CSPO®), she is an expert at helping companies achieve exceptional efficiency.

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Advisory Board

Software Executive

Louis Moynihan

Louis is a software executive with 25+ years of experience, innovating in the Dot Com, B2B, WhatsApp Messaging, and Web3 product areas. Most recently, he spent six years at Meta/WhatsApp, leading Product Business Dev North America for the WhatsApp Business API. Louis believes in a future with decentralized messaging protocols that allow users to control and own more of what they produce.

Head of Ad Platforms at Iris.TV

Sean Holzman

Sean has built his career consistently blowing out revenue goals while driving brand recognition across highly-competitive environments. With a talent for identifying opportunities in new tech and platforms, his strategic and creative perspective breeds results. Sean is a resourceful and agile facilitator skilled in aligning individual strengths with business needs to drive success in fast-paced and challenging environments.

SVP Digital Investment at Horizon Media

Kyung Kim

A leader and innovator in the digital media community, Kyung has led media strategy and investment at renowned agencies including Publicis, Omnicom and independent giant Horizon Media, representing some of the largest brands across multiple sectors.

He's driven by the changing media landscape and the opportunity to disrupt traditional thinking.

CTO at ANDO

Son Nguyen

Co-Founder and CTO at sustainable Financial Services company Ando, Son Nguyen is an entrepreneur and founder of multiple successful startups in the financial technology industry. Son is a highly accomplished proven leader who continues to innovate and create first class software teams and products.

Founder & CEO, Plan A

Andrew Essex

Award-winning journalist Andrew is the founder and CEO of creative marketing services company, Plan A.

Former roles include CEO of Tribeca Enterprises (parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival,) and CEO of global advertising agency Droga5.

CEO Cointed Japan

Ichiro Minamikawa

Esteemed Tokyo-based businessman Ichiro Minamikawa has founded ten companies over the last 3 decades.

As well as being CEO at Cointed Japan, he is a director of several FinTech and HealthTech companies.

President at Chicory

Jason Young

Jason is a 30 year veteran of the media, digital advertising, and adtech markets. A tenured founder and operator, his experience includes serving as CEO of Ziff Davis, CEO of Crisp, and Chief Media Officer of Quotient Technology. Involved in the early days of digital media, Young specializes in new digital ad platform/product development, launching, and scaling.

CEO of Post Interruptive

Rob Gregory

Rob is a media veteran with 30+ years experience in advertising, revenue growth, and brand strategy.

Rob served as co-founder and President at WhoSay, President of The Daily Beast, and Publisher of Maxim and Rolling Stone magazines.

General Partner at Alphablock

Richard Li

A Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, and founder and chairman of the private investment group Pacific Century Group, Richard has been investing in blockchain since 2012. He has advised several successful cryptocurrency offerings and is a seed investor in Permission.

Technology Evangelist

Robin Bloor, PhD

Robin has over 30 years experience in big data and information management.

He has authored books on e-commerce, service management and cloud computing.

Board of Directors

Lightbend EVP Strategy & Product

Brad Murdoch

A seasoned strategist and product manager, Brad has held executive roles in biz dev, marketing and operations for early and growth stage companies in the professional open source, cybersecurity and enterprise mobility markets, including for JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), Prevoty, Framehawk (acquired by Citrix), Nukona (acquired by Symantec) and OpenSpan (acquired by Pegasystems).

CEO of Blockforce Capital

Eric Ervin

Eric is the co-founder and CEO of Blockforce Capital and Co-Founder at Onramp Invest. He formerly served as the Vice President of Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. He has extensive expertise in alternatives, e.g., dividend swaps, and quant-based cryptocurrency strategies, and is a member of the CFTC Virtual Currency Subcommittee for the Technology Advisory Council.

SVP Digital Investment at Horizon Media

Bill Ingram

Bill Ingram served as CFO and Treasurer of Avalara Inc., where he completed their IPO and secondary equity offerings, launched SOX/404 internal compliance, and consolidated multiple strategic acquisitions. He has previously served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Khan Academy, held various executive roles at Leap Wireless, and founded Nuera Communications, where he was CEO.

Founder & CEO of Vitacup

Brandon Fishman

A seasoned entrepreneur, Brandon has raised millions for VitaCup and prior startups. He founded and successfully sold Internet Marketing Inc., serves on multiple CPG boards and is a consultant and eCommerce advisor to several growing CPG brands.