In this post we introduce the entire Blockfolio leadership team!

At Blockfolio, we’re committed to connecting crypto investors, token projects, and exchanges, through data and information. Our goal is to help the ecosystem move forward from an era of financial speculation to an era of true community participation. With our $11.5M Series A fundraising and Blockfolio 2.0 launch successfully completed, we finally have a moment to highlight recent additions to the team who will push Blockfolio forward towards achieving these goals.

Meet Our New Board Member

We’re honored to announce that Pantera Capital partner, Paul Veradittakit, has agreed to join our Board of Directors.

Paul brings a strong brand, a massive personal network, and an enthusiastic support for projects that are trying to advance the ecosystem. Paul has been actively investing in and supporting blockchain projects with over 60 cryptocurrency-related investments in the past 5 years. He sits on the board of OpenToken and BitOasis, and is also an active advisor to Orchid, Origin, and ICON, amongst other notable projects.

When we walked Paul through our vision for the company, there was instant agreement on the need to better connect the various components of the ecosystem and the key role that Blockfolio could play in that. His active support of our vision, and his deep and broad experience in this space, makes him the perfect person to help our company lead at the board level.

Welcome to the family, Paul!

Building a Team of Builders

Much of what’s gone on at Blockfolio in 2018 has taken place behind the scenes (and we wanted to give you a rare glimpse). We have great ambitions to help connect the ecosystem, which is much easier said than done especially as the space continues to grow in scale. We have been busy this past year building a world-class leadership team to achieve the vision and innovations we aim to deliver at Blockfolio.

The most obvious place to start building the team was to bring a product leader to help formulate and execute on our product vision.

Jonathan Chu (VP of Product) joined the team this past February. Jonathan is an ex-Google PM who then ran product at Flipagram, growing it into a social video platform that reached 200M+ users globally and rivaled Instagram and Snapchat before being acquired. In our early conversations, Jonathan immediately saw the potential of Blockfolio Signal and believed it could become one of the focal points of the app, making his prior experience scaling the Flipagram platform directly relevant to launching and growing our platform.

With a clear product vision in place, we searched for the perfect person to help take us from our current millions of users to the next tens (or even hundreds) of millions.

Jonathan introduced us to Brian Dilley (CTO), who was previously CTO/Co-founder at Flipagram and served on its board with Michael Moritz and Naval Ravikant. He has been building startups for 20+ years and chose to join us after being highly sought after by numerous blockchain projects. Brian was initially intrigued by our millions of highly engaged users but after really digesting our product vision and roadmap, he was all in. If Jonathan was the perfect guy to lead the product, then there was no better person to build it than Brian, and we have the added bonus that they’ve worked together for years.

With the Product and Engineering teams rounding into shape, we were still looking for our design guru. Our search extended for over 10 months as we refused to compromise until we found the right person to architect our brand vision, define our visual language, and improve our user experience.

We found our design leader in Brent Akamine (Design Director), who joined Blockfolio in July. Another key member of the Flipagram team, Brent walked away from a promotion to oversee a division of 100+ designers at Bytedance to join our team (yes, for real). Brent was the driving force behind our Blockfolio 2.0 brand and design refresh, which has been incredibly well-received (Blockfolio 2.0 Takes Crypto App Usability To New Level).

Scaling The Team

To head up Operations, we recruited Naveen Molloy from Expa, a $150M incubator started by Uber founder Garrett Camp. As Sr. Director of Operations there, he drew rave reviews while helping finance, incubate, and grow over 45 companies. We feel truly fortunate to have one of the best operations leaders in the space ensuring that our team has the ability to reach its full potential.

I’ve been in the space since 2013, and rarely have I met anybody who exudes the passion and knowledge about the cryptocurrency space as Anthony Zhang (Director of Growth & Marketing). Anthony is a Thiel Fellow who previously started and sold food delivery startup, EnvoyNow. Afterwards, he was the Director of Growth at JOANY, where his team managed a $10M+ annual growth budget. Here at Blockfolio, Anthony is focused on nurturing our community of users and token teams while helping Blockfolio charge forward towards mainstream adoption.

While we could only highlight a few key folks, the Blockfolio team is now over 40 strong and every team member brings a similar passion, skill set, and experience that makes us confident that we’ve built the right starting team. This is the team that built Blockfolio 2.0 and you will see that this is only the beginning.

…. One More Thing

Lastly, we want to introduce a very special team member. Ming (aka Meow) has been an advisor to Blockfolio since last October and was instrumental in both our product and ecosystem strategy, as well as our earlier $3M seed round and our recent Series A of $11.5M. Ming has been a key member of several top projects in this space, including Handshake, Kyber Network and WBTC. He brings with him incredibly deep ties across every corner of the ecosystem in addition to amazing product and technical expertise. We already felt lucky to have Ming as an advisor, but we were incredibly honored when he agreed to join our Board of Directors as a Board Observer (alongside myself, my co-founder Peter Lau, and Paul Veradittakit).

With our core team now in place, we’re really excited about moving faster to provide the key features that our users are asking for. Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we announce more exciting things coming soon from the team! (Such as our soon-to-go-live exchange integration!) In the meantime, please stay updated or leave your feedback through our Twitter and Telegram channels.