Blockchain on GCP Forum II

Tejpaul Bhatia is the NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures. His most recent startup post was as COO for Explain Everything, an interactive screen casting whiteboard app. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Chatwala, a mobile video chat app and Kaptur (acquired), an app that enables users to aggregate photos taken at an event in seconds. Prior to founding Kaptur, Tej was Senior Manager of Product and International Strategy for ESPN, where he launched ESPN3 in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. He also co-founded Media Strategy Partners, a media asset management consulting company. Tej began his career as a digital media consultant at Scient and Sekani.

Tyler Spalding is currently a Co-Founder at Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. He has been preaching/mining/coding cryptocurrencies since 2011.

Tyler is the former Chief Technology Officer at Raise, the world’s largest gift card marketplace with over $1B in sales and $150M in venture funding. Tyler has more than 20 years of technology experience, has founded and sold three software companies, and is an active seed-stage investor in 25+ startups.

He is author to more than 50 technology patents, and was previously an aerospace engineering faculty member at two universities. Tyler is also a proud former engineer for the United Space Alliance, the United States Air Force, NASA Mars Crew Module, and the NASA Space Shuttle Program.

Tyler has spoken at a variety of retail, payments, and blockchain events including: Money 20/20, Consensus, ShopTalk, Intersect Retail, Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, and the E-Commerce Conference and Exposition (International Keynote).

Konstantin is a serial entreprenuer and investor. He led and exited saas b-2-b platforms in the Media/Advertising space, most notably, Audiotube, Lookbooks and Wiredrive. He also is an advisor to health care blockchain company gem.co, and serves on the board of madhive.com, the leading media/advertising blockchain business. He currently serves as CEO of blockdaemon, the industry agnostic nodes-as-a-service entity.

Marguerite deCourcelle (better known as coin_artist) is a technologist, game designer, and blockchain enthusiast. She is the CEO of Blockade Games, a company that designs puzzles and games built on blockchain technology.

I am Founder at cmorq, building blockchain data tools that help the blockchain community to access and benefit from the information from the blockchain.

I have an MBA from Columbia University and a PhD in Computer Science (EconCS group) from Harvard University, advised by David Parkes (primary advisor, Computer Science, SEAS) and Edo Airoldi (Statistics). I received a Master's degree in Statistics from Harvard University and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

Prior to cmorq, I led the Data Science team at Clarity Money, building a trusted financial advocate for myself and all consumers who feel puzzled when it comes to managing their finances. Prior to Clarity, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research where I initiated and led multiple projects in collaboration with product teams such as Ad-Exchange. My contributions included identification and improvement of inefficiencies through exploratory data analysis and efficient algorithm design, as well as building complex A/B testing frameworks for auction systems to measure and illustrate improvements.

My research is in the area of machine learning and statistical modeling with applications in social computation, consumer behavior and experimental design, where I design scalable algorithms for driving products and features based on large data sets. During my PhD, I focused on designing scalable algorithms for analyzing rank data in applications such as social choice, voting, demand estimation, crowdsourcing and recommender systems.

I am a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2014.

Juthica Chou spent 7 years as a derivatives trader within the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, where she specialized in algorithmic trading. Juthica began her career as an options market-maker on the Quantitative Volatility Trading desk, where her product scope ranged from equity and index options to VIX, treasuries, currencies and commodities. She later joined the Single Stock Volatility desk, where she traded dispersion and variance swaps and focused on the automated quoting of packaged trades.

Juthica received a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kieren is a founder and President at BlockApps. He architected and implemented BlockApps RESTful API and surrounding products and components, including the authorization framework, peer to peer networking code, Node.js client, and third party integrations. Kieren is a leader in architecture, design and development of blockchain based decentralized applications, serving as the sign-off of the EEA’s Technical Steering Committee. Kieren is a recognized thought-leader around blockchain as a contributor and author of whitepapers, academic journals and conferences. Kieren received his BA in Mathematics from Princeton and is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley.

Tejpaul Bhatia is the NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures. His most recent startup post was as COO for Explain Everything, an interactive screen casting whiteboard app. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Chatwala, a mobile video chat app and Kaptur (acquired), an app that enables users to aggregate photos taken at an event in seconds. Prior to founding Kaptur, Tej was Senior Manager of Product and International Strategy for ESPN, where he launched ESPN3 in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. He also co-founded Media Strategy Partners, a media asset management consulting company. Tej began his career as a digital media consultant at Scient and Sekani.