Earlier this year, we told you about some new faces on XYO’s advisory board. Our advisory board helps our co-founders guide the company by suggesting strategies, anticipating challenges, and making introductions that will help us develop new partnerships, applications and customers. Today, we announced three new advisors, each of whom brings experience in guiding high-growth companies and projects.

James DeBello

James DeBello, who recently served for 15 years as Chairman, President and CEO of Mitek Systems, is a fintech visionary with over 25 years’ experience in senior executive management for global technology companies. He specializes in leading high-growth companies developing transformative information technologies which have helped shape our modern culture ranging from the infancy of Wi-Fi, to Wireless Telecom and Mobile Document Capture. He is best known as the co-inventor of mobile check deposit used by 80 million consumers and the top banks in the world. Frequently invited to speak at industry events, and a recent panelist at Mobile World Congress with PayPal and Google discussing digital inclusion, DeBello is an industry thought leader on identity and mobile computing, as well as a passionate advocate on the topic.

Adam Altman

Adam Altman is a successful serial entrepreneur, founder and investor in multiple business. Altman currently serves as CEO of Austin-based ILABS. Since he founded the organization in 2012, Altman has been the President of Rebilly, a SaaS company which helps merchants leverage card-on-file billing automation and analytics to maximize customer lifetime value. Additionally, in 2017, Altman spun out a new company, Redocly, now a leader in ReDoc OpenAPI documentation software, and currently in use by thousands of enterprises. Earlier, In 2000, Altman co-founded Traffic Marketplace, then one of the largest ad networks globally, which was ultimately sold to Vivendi Universal. Altman graduated from Claremont McKenna with a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1998.

Sam Markowitz

Sam Markowitz, founder and CEO of The Sam Markowitz Group, is an entrepreneur who helps other successful entrepreneurs grow their businesses further. As one of the world’s top direct response copywriters and marketing strategists, he is known as Gary Halbert’s last direct protégé. Markowitz is renowned for developing successful hyper-growth marketing strategies for his clients.

“With these and our other recent Advisory Board appointments, we’re building out the industry’s ‘dream team’ from various key disciplines that will help us take our business and movement to the next level,” said Markus Levin, Co-Founder and Head of Operations with XYO. “Our growing Advisory Board rounds out an already-powerful team that we expect to set the direction for the industry. Our team’s goal is to build bridges between blockchain, virtual and real worlds, and to take the our efforts into space in earnest. You can expect to see great things from XYO in 2019.”