Meet the Cryptonite Wizards

Industry disrupters who direct Cryptonite’s members to the innovation trends, investment opportunities, and emerging companies that matter.

Anthony Perkins
6 min readSep 24, 2021
Fresh off the streets of innovation, our Cryptonite Wizards know what it means to build a new enterprise one brick at a time. — Cartegena Colombia

What is a Cryptonite Wizard?

Our Wizards ideally have at least 10 years of intensive study and provable results and expertise in one or more innovation and entrepreneurial business domains. Our bias is towards clever entrepreneurs, Chief Technology Officers, and intrapreneurs who have transformed an idea into a thriving enterprise as defined by the size of customer base, revenues, and profits.

Our second bias is towards risk investors who have built a long and demonstratable history of investing in great entrepreneurs. A tertiary interest is to recruit legal, finance, tax, accounting, tokenomics, and public investment experts who have a proven history of advising successful entrepreneurs.

Follows is a small example of Cryptonite’s growing list of industry experts now also serving our members as Wizards.

Apply to be a Cryptonite Wizard here.

Ana Lukner Roljic, Founder & Chairman, Truhoma + Magomed Musaev, Founder & President, GVA Capital + Donald Basile, CEO, Monsoon Blockchain Storage + Mark Drummond, AI & Machine Learning, Apple + Tongtong Gong, CTO, Amberdata.io + Roger Ver, Founder, Bitcoin Cash + Sonja Perkins, Founder, Broadway Angels + Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Ventures + Brad Stephens, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Blockchain Capital + Pam Alexander, Angel Investor, Next Ventures + Richard Ma, CEO, Quantstamp Technologies + Sam Harrison, Managing Partner, Blockchain Ventures + Bart Stephens, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Blockchain Capital + Heidi Messer, Chairperson & Co-Founder, Collective + David Kunin , Co-founder & CEO, Inflexhn Partners + Josh Lawler, Partner, Zuber Lawler LLP + Linda Lawrence, Founder, Zero1 + Howard Morgan, Chairman, B Capital Group + Michele Sconiers, Co-Founder & COO, Level Therapy Group + Scott English, Managing Director & Head of U.S. Investments, Hearst Ventures + Ann Grimes, Editor & Educator, Stanford School of Design + Amy Wu, Partner, Lightspeed Ventures + Doug Park, Crypto Lawyer, Park and Dibadj + Neil Gerber, Director, New Energy & Blockchain, IBM + Petra Vorsteher, Founder, AI.Hamburg + Heather Hiles, Managing Partner, Black Ops Fund + Keith Agoada, CEO, Producers Token + Marie Alexander, Angel Investor + Michael Arrington, Founder & Partner, Arrington XRP Capital + Larry Augustin, VP, Amazon Web Services (AWS) + Rok Babič, CTO, Eligma Labs + Saswata Basu, Founder & CEO, 0chain + David Chaum, Founder & Cryptographer, DigiCash + Kevin Collins, Managing Director, Software & Platforms Industry, Accenture + Shawn Douglass, CEO, Amberdata.io + Tess Hau, Founder & CEO, Tess Ventures + Atsushi Hisatsumi, Founder & CEO, PATRON + Bess Ho, Angel Investor, GSQ + André Horta, CEO, BitcoinToYou + Dejan Roljic, Founder & CEO, Eligma + Joe Schoendorf, Founding Partner, Accel Partners + Michelle Tsing, Co-Founder, Governance Research Institute + William Barhydt, CEO, Abra + Andrey Zamovsky, Founder & CEO. Ambisafe + Michael Petersohn, Managing Director, ARC Financial Technologies + Gil Valentine, Founder & CCO, Athena Bitcoin + Bá Minuzzi, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Ausum Ventures + Sonny Singh, CCO, BitPay + Michael Skok, Co-Founder & Partner, Underscore VC + Duncan Davidson, Founder & Managing Director, Bullpen Capital + Christina Yang, Managing Partner, SteelBay Equity Partners + Andrew Collins, Co-Founder & CEO, Bungalow + George Gilder, Founder, Gilder Technology + Gerrit Van Wingerden, CTO, Caspian + Henrik Hjelte, CEO, ChromaWay + Jordon Hall, Co-Founder, Civium + Daniel Polotsky, Founder & CEO, CoinFlip + Eddy Travia, CEO, Coinsilium + Massimo Bertaccini, CEO, Cryptolab + Jeff Wentworth, Co-Founder, Curvegrid + Jessica Segal, Partner, DFJ Growth + Guy Zyskind, Co-Founder & CEO, Enigma + Alexi Lane, CEO, Everex + Alpesh Doshi, Founder & CEO, Fintricity + Salem Bagami, Founder & Director, Founder Institute + Lewis Katz, CBO, FS Investments + Jonny Peters, Founder & CEO, Gaze Coin + Josh Elman, Partner, Greylock Partners + Mike Gault, Founder & CEO, Guardtime + Clément Lesaege, CTO, Kleros + Ian Worrall, Founder & CEO, MyBit AG + Jon Jacobs, Founder & CEO, NeverDie Studios + Abhishek Pitti, Founder & CEO, Nucleus Vision + Azam Zariff, Founder, Investify + Alessandro Piol, Managing Partner & Co-Founder + AlphaPrime Ventures + Brendan Playford, Co-Founder & CEO, PngMe + Russell Korus, CEO, PotCoin + Cate Rung, CCO & Co-Founder, PngMe + Natalia Karayaneva, CEO, Propy + Patrick Dai, Founder, Qtum + David Menard, Founder & CEO, Real Items + Sean Walsh, Founder & CEO, Redwood City Ventures + Michael Moll, CTO, Reitium Blockchain Technologies LTD + Scott Irwin, General Partner, Rembrandt Venture Partners + James Seg, Founder & CEO, Riptide Coin + Jen Horonjeff, PhD, Founder & CEO, Savvy Cooperative + Joy Ajlouny, Co-Founder, fetchr & Bonfaire + Phillippe Khan, Founder & CEO, Fullpower + Parul Gujral, CEO, Snowball + Jim Liew, Co-Founder & Partner, Sokat + ChrisMcCoy, CEO, Storecoin + Abram Cookson, CIO & Co-Founder, Substratum + Rufo Guerreschi, CEO, TRUSTLESS:AI + Dominik Zynis, Co-Founder, WINGS DAO + Alisa Gus, CEO, WishKnish + Keith Nilsson, Managing Partner, Xplorer Capital + Kenneth Goldman, Former CFO, Yahoo + Doug Scott, Partner, Surround Ventures + Tony Zhang, Managing Director, Ventek Ventures + Steven XI, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Eastlink Capital Partners, L.P. + David Yang, Founder, Yva.ai, + Ron Yekutiel, CoFounder & CEO, Kaltura + Eleanor Wu, President, Blue Ocean Systems + David Siegel, Founder, Kryptodesign.com + Yoav Dror, Founder & CEO, Pumapay + Sasha Johnson, CEO, VC.House + Deepak Kamra, General Partner + Patrick Li, CTO, AlohaCloud Digital Networks + Dovydas Riasnojus, ,CEO, Swace Foundation + Norm Fogelsong, General Partner, IVP + Alvin Foo, Co-Founder, DAOventures + Patri Friedman, Managing Partner, Zarco Investment Group + Clarence Wooten, Director & Entrepreneur In Residence, Google + +Kim Vogel, Board Director, Trico + Sam Zaid, Founder & CEO, Getaround + Steven Sprague, CEO, Rivetz Corp + Jay Samit, Executive Chairman, Greenfield Robotics + Susan Oh CMO Beyond Imagination + Eric Alexandre, Executive Director & Founder Ikon Media|Jetcoin + Grace Tang Founder & CEO LookRev + Richard Bohan, CEO & CoFounder, Crypto Capital Investments + Janine Terrano Founder & CEO Topia Technology + Adriaan Brink, Founder & CEO, FUN Token + Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund + Hayden Gill, CEO, Atlas Power + Melisande Mual Managing Director, The Paypers + Omar Green, Founder & CEO, Wallet.AI +Andrew Grosser, Founder & CEO, SFPL + Marc Kenigsberg, Chief Marketing Officer, Antidote Health + Matthew Liu, Cofounder, Origin Protocol, + Paul Mahal, CEO & Founder, Stanford Ventures + Ismail Malik, CEO & Founder, Blockchain Lab + Nikolaj Martyniuk, Co-Founder & CEO, WePower Network + Mike Reaves, VP of Product, AutoRABIT + James Robinson Founder & General Partner RRE Ventures + Mouli Srini, Founder & CEO, MOBODEXTER + Sarah Austin, Head of Content, Kava Labs +

Apply to be a Cryptonite Wizard here.

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Anthony Perkins

Silicon Valley OG. Founder and Editor of Cryptonite. Previously Founder of Red Herring, AlwaysOn, Churchill Club, SVB Tech Group