SpringRole ICO Review — Part 2

The SpringRole Project Team

The SpringRole team is large compared to most ICO-based blockchain startups. They have a highly qualified set of staff versed in a wide range of tactical project-based subsets. Based on a dive into their academic and professional qualifications, they have the skills to make this dream a reality. Let’s meet them:

The SpringRole Founder and CEO

Kartik Mandaville is the CEO and Founder of SpringRole. He holds a Masters’ degree from Carnegie Mellon. His vision for SpringRole was to create a strongly connectable network built on transparency and trust for the job market. This vision eventually led to SpringRole. He is also a serial advisor to entities such as Plowz and Mowz, Burst Oral Care, Handstand, Lenny Credit, and the Science blockchain. Before founding SpringRole, he was the head of data science at Mammoth Media.

The Rest of the SpringRole Team

David Lewis | Head of Business Development and Strategy — Lewis is best known for assisting Overture in creating the industry for paid search. He also founded an e-commerce business that was purchased be Ebates, and was the head of the publisher program for Shopzilla. In the 1990’s, he was product manager for a company called STC, which was eventually bought by Sun Microsystems.

Shivhari Shankar | Product Manager — Shankar is the product architect of Guru G Learning Labs, which is an educational technology startup based in India. Prior to this, he founded jobschacha.com, a job search aggragetor, and spent time as a software engineer at Cisco, as part of video surveillance. He has an undergrad in computer science from MIT in Manipal, India.

Vinay Agarwal | Head of Engineering — Before joining SpringRole, Agarwal was the manager of Mammoth Media, running the technical end of Wishbone. He has also been a backend engineer for such startups as Elle and Urban Remedy, and was the Chief Technology officer of Let Me Know. He graduated from the National Institute of Technology in India.

Additional members of the SpringRole team include:

SpringRole’s Advisers

SpringRole has almost a dozen advisers from a variety of disciplines. Of these include such names as Greg Gilman, who is the founder of Science Blockchain and Science Inc., Jeremy Cai, founder and COO of hiring automation platform Fountain, and Jason Morton, serial cryptocurrency adviser.

Also on the advisory team for SpringRole is Swaroop Hegde, serial startup founder and entrepreneur, Nitin Sharma, a leading US to India technology investor, Mingyang Song, a co-founder of SpringRole and now connection between SpringRole and the Chinese blockchain market, and Andy Tong, founder and CEO of online gaming portal MMOABC.

Other advisers include Mike Jones, an internet executive, investor and strategic advisor and CEO of Science, Inc, as well as the most active angel investor in Los Angeles. Alex Waters, member of the Bitcoin core development team and massive blockchain startup founder, Rick Marini, startup founder and technology advisor, and Jesse Proudman, distinguished blockchain engineer from IBM.

SpringRole’s Investors and Partnerships

Some of SpringRole’s investors include Gil Penchina, David Siemer, Peter McCormack, and Jesse Proudman (also an advisor). Investing and blockchain partnerships already in progress with SpringRole’s concept include AlphaBlock Investments, Science Blockchain, and the DNA Fund.

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But how does blockchain play into SpringRole? How does their token work, and how can you get involved? What are some positive and negative aspects of the company, and what is our final verdict on the potential of SpringRole? Read on for more.

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