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OKX is the world’s most trusted crypto exchange, wallet, and web3 platform. Serving millions of users across more than 100 countries, OKX offers fast secure trading alongside spot, derivate, staking services, and a growing selection of ecosystem tools.
NEWM is a blockchain-based music platform that enables the tokenization of streaming royalties to redefine how music is created, shared, and valued. NEWM empowers artists and fans to build a fairer, more transparent music industry through innovative tools, community engagement, and a one-time payment DSP model. • Launched NEWM’s music-distribution royalty-tokenization DSP platform allowing 1000+ artists to upload, mint, & release songs to 130+ global streaming platforms w/ automated royalty % splits claiming • Led 0-1 release of NEWM’s android & iOS mobile apps enabling seamless marketplace purchasing, collection, & streaming of cross-chain music-NFTs across Cardano and soon-to-be supported Solana • Supported development and launch of NEWM’s royalty token marketplace, enabling token listing, primary and secondary selling, and activity reporting/ analytics of artist-stream tokenized royalties • Organized NEWM artist event at Oculus Center for NFT.NYC ‘24 in collaboration with ARCHIV3 & The Canvas 3.0 with speaker panel & 4 artist performances resulting in 800k social media impressions
Story is building open IP infrastructure for the internet era. • First Product Manager at a16z-backed AI-web3 startup Story where I drove 0-1 launch of our first consumer-facing applications meant to leverage the company’s underlying IP protocol & blockchain • Launched NFT IP-licensing marketplace aimed at enabling provenance tracking for the registration, remixing, attribution, and royalty sharing of creative ip across applications and AI models/ agents • Led build-out of our first incubated NFT ip-franchise in collaboration with high-profile Hollywood film director David Goyer to demonstrate automated commercial licensing, remixing & royalty payouts • Released staking dashboard, token faucet, & other L1-critical dapps that enabled seamless account management, staking, analytics/reporting, & governance, allowing for +7M daily trxs upon L1 release • Led integrations with 10+ generative AI & creator B2C apps leveraging our blockchain & IP infra • Supported end to end scoping & development of our L1 blockchain as well as design enhancements for our programmable IP protocol capabilities like royalties, disputes, licensing, & IP asset remixing
For over 200 years, JPMorgan Chase & Co has provided innovative financial solutions for consumers, small businesses, corporations, governments and institutions around the world. Today, we're a leading global financial services firm with operations servicing clients in more than 100 countries. Whether we are serving customers, helping small businesses, or putting our skills to work with partners, we strive to identify issues and propose solutions that will propel the future and strengthen both our clients and our communities. • Conducted market research, analyzed client trends, and created revenue opportunity analysis to lead product roadmap development of cross border global B2B2C payments product for FIs & fintechs • Led seamless rollout of 5+ new cross-border payment corridors via integrations with Wechat Pay e-wallet, UniTeller payment processor, & other 3rd party systems to increase global coverage by 13% • Drove FX Rate integration with markets team to expand coverage to 120+ new currencies, enable negotiation via customized tiers, & guarantee transparency + real-time rates to enable Dodd-Frank compliance for US banks & increase yearly transaction volume by >1000% ($1.6B amount increase) • Launched CX/ operation automation & routing logic enhancements for ACH/SWIFT payments & post -transaction actions to decrease system-error initiated cancellations by 75% & drive client adoption • Initiated multi-year modernization of JPM’s legacy USD Wire payments processor handling >800k transactions a day totaling $3.3 trillion USD where we migrated 75M retail accounts to a modular & decentralized cloud-based architecture supporting 24/7 Clearing, e-comm flows, & more capabilities
AForm is fostering interoperable digital fashion through automated conversion technology. • Founding member of AForm, went through Hashed’s startup incubator to develop 3D-file automated conversion technology enabling digital fashion interoperability across XR-environments • Partnered with Ready Player Me, The SandBox, & Tommy Hilfiger for metaverse runways, NFT utility, & avatar fitting usecases • Led development of AForm’s automated B2B2C AR virtual try-on solution to allow jewelry & fashion brands to instantaneously spin up virtual try-on experiences via Snapchat’s AR Lens Studio