Our success is in our relationships
Family Office, business and financing advisory with global reach and relationships
Deep understanding of traditional and non-traditional funding, raising over $150 Million USD for start ups
Exits in both private and public enterprises with expertise in global financing practices
Over 12 years in developing Artificial Intelligence centric technologies Over 25 years in global Fintech
Over 30 years in online business development in Web1, Web2, and Web3
Over 40 years of business development with leading industry sector firms and Fortune 500’s
Award winning team in Sports, Entertainment, Gaming, Community Activities, and Technology
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We are Senior Strategic Advisors for North America to TheBlock, the Dubai World Trade Centre’s premier hub for virtual assets, positioned at the heart of innovation and digital transformation.
As a comprehensive gateway for pioneers in the digital economy, TheBlock provides an all-in-one platform designed to accelerate growth and success in the blockchain and digital asset industries.
TheBlock’s services include strategic advisory, regulatory guidance, business setup support, and access to funding opportunities. TheBlock also offers a tokenized fund and an innovative incubator, empowering ventures to scale and thrive. With over 240 events expected to be hosted annually, TheBlock fosters a dynamic ecosystem where blockchain and digital asset leaders come together to transform the future of technology and finance.
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or visionary in thedigital space, TheBlock is your partner for navigating and shaping the next frontier of the digital economy.
To explore more about TheBlock and membership opportunities
“Web 3.0 is the era of the truly decentralized web, where individuals will have more control over their data and privacy.”
- Vitalik Buterin, Co-founder of Ethereum
“Artificial intelligence is not about creating machines that are smarter than humans; it's about building machines that can learn from humans and assist them in their tasks
- Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate, Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist.
Advisory Services
At our core, we support our partnerships and programs with the following:
Mentoring -
one to one and small group senior management support
Consulting –
engaging with the whole business to support execution and growth
Media Programs -
spreading the word through professional outreach Brand & Marketing –ensuring that users understand your business and offerings
Structure -
setting up the business for success, partnerships, and exits Program Development –objective analysis of Key Performance Indicators
Web2 to Web3 -
understanding how traditional users will adopt new technologies
Conventional and Token Financing –
introductions and support for growth
Investors –
we are potential investors in projects and programs that we advise
Sports, media, entertainment, and gaming
We’ve been engaged in the entertainment and media sector for over 30 years, with our principal being nominated for a NY Emmy for our Executive Producer role for special programming with the NY Yankees YES Network, and we have been part of a team that has a Guinness World Record in the online space. We have also worked with major studios supporting multi-billion revenue generating and award-winning releases.
We’ve worked with F1, NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, MLS, Olympics, IndyCar, and individual professional athletes, and their agencies, supporting unique programming and product launches.
As gamers, we understand and have played a role in the release of a number of AAA and indie games, and now focus on Web3 gaming, user engagement and the rise of mini games and apps on platforms like Telegram.
“My guess is that in 10-20 years, we'll see a substantial portion of GDP happening in the crypto economy”
– Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Cohort Programs
Out Team members have been supporting startups and early-stage companies for over 30 years and have engineered and been a part of a number of successful strategic acquisitions, IPOs, RTOs, and private exits. Today, we focus our efforts on working with amazing individuals and teams to help them reach their goals.
Incubation –
supporting the development of startups, early-stage, and hypergrowth organizations
Acceleration -
engaging to speed up operational emergence and revenue generation
Boot Camps -
hosted events, both physical and virtual, to train early-stage organizations to reach for their potential
Business Development
Going beyond ideation, proof of concept (POC), and minimum viable products to create value through:
Growth –
business and revenue ramp up
Strategic Partnerships –
introductions to opportunities to leverage complementary organizations
Sponsorship and Grant – industry and government programs
User engagement –
social media ramp up
“I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
– Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
“Web 3.0 is the next phase of the Internet, where intelligence will be built into everything, and the web will become truly semantic."
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
Keynote Speaking, Panels & Guest Lecturing
From entrepreneurship, the rise of the internet and Web1, Web2, and Web3, Artificial Intelligence, digital identity, security and utility tokens, social and user engagement, integrating media, entertainment and technology, the growth of the digital economy, and other key industry topics, we can support your conference, event, and educational institute with our roster of keynote, panel, and guest lecturers.
MVP and go to market strategies
Investors, strategic partners, sponsors and other value partners need to see that your projects are beyond the vision stage and are on their way to commercialization. With years of experience in developing technology and consumer products and program, we can assist with design, development, and other services to turn your vision into a minimum viable product (MVP) and support proof of concept (POC) activities.
From this stage, we can work with your team to develop your products go to market strategies and what solutions are best to maximize revenue and value.
“ Web3 is an Internet owned by users and builders orchestrated with tokens.”
– Chris Dixon, Venture Capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
Artificial Intelligence and human integration
With over 15 years of developing LLMs, ML, and Agentic programming and go to market execution, our team has the background to support early-stage and emerging AI and human blended enterprises.
Digital Identity Verification, Privacy, and Compliance
When accuracy of identification and compliance matters, our team works with a large number of global partners and together we can provide support for a wide variety of digital identity verification, privacy, and compliance programs.