Mario is a lifelong entrepreneur, having built multiple successful companies for over 8 years.

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Mario is the founder of International Blockchain Consulting and a partner at International Blockchain Legal, and a leading figure in crypto. He plays a key role on Bitclout with 3 projects having reached the Top 10 status.

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Mario’s team is also behind some of the most successful projects in crypto to date, and is very involved in both NFTs and the Metaverse. Founder of the Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate that operates in more than 40 countries, Mario started his first business with $300 in the bank selling blenders door to door.

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Through unconventional marketing techniques, efficient logistical systems, and a team of global contractors, he propelled Froothie to $1m in year one and over $10m in year two, all bootstrapped.

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Alan Smithson’s purpose in life is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically and environmentally responsible way.
Mr. Smithson is a Co-Founder of MetaVRse, a low-code platform that makes it easy to create & share interactive 3D experiences instantly on the web.

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He is a proud Father, Business Leader, TEDx Speaker, and Podcast Host. Mr. Smithson co-invented the World’s first touchscreen DJ system, Emulator—featured on Dragons’ Den and winning DJ Mag’s Innovative Product of the Year in 2011.

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His 10-year-old daughter invented sandals that leave a heart-shaped tan line on your feet called Love Sandal winning Top 20 Under 20 at only 10 years old.

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He is an Independent Global Advisor on the Business of XR for Fortune 500 Companies and UHNW Family Offices.

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Known as Coach K, Joel is an avid trading and financial coach known for his go-to-market strategies for early-stage projects, creative tokenomics, and a deep partnership network. He is found regularly on YouTube providing trading and review content as well as Ran Neuner from CNBC’s YouTube show Crypto Banter hosting several of the top Blockchain CEOs and Thought Leaders. Coach is the Co-founder of Mad-Tech LLC, team at AnrkeyX a DeFi Gaming project, and is an active advisor to the following projects, Ethernity, SHOPX, FinXflo, Paid Network, and PlotX.

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His experience is years in this industry understanding not only how the industry works, but how the people in the industry think and react, understanding their motivations, how to communicate with people. A lot of projects in this space aren’t great communicators. Also keeping people around him up to date and thinking outside of the box. He’s done tokenomics for thirteen projects very successfully, and has challenged how the industry does tokenomics, ways of building them, doing them differently, and it’s something He’s become an expert in. He knows a lot of people and is very friendly, with a lot of connections to different projects and people. If someone says, “Hey, I need x, y, z,” He can find the right people or projects to plug into what they’re doing.

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Dr. David Utzke is a researcher and educator focused on Distributed Leger Technologies (DLT), Digital Currency Alternative Payment Systems, Cryptocurrency Economics, Token Technology and Economics, Extended Reality (XR) technologies, and Data Analytics.

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By taking an architectural design analytics approach to his work, Dr Utzke has been able to provide support in ways that are engaging, dynamic rooted in military special operations and federal cybercrimes law enforcement experience. He is also a graduate professor teaching DLT Architecture & Smart Contract/DApp Coding, and currently in the private sector as Sr Director of Cryptoeconomic Technology (R&D Engineering) and supporting Investigative Analysts, providing research on DeFi sector data, and expert testimony in federal grand jury, criminal, and civil legal proceedings.

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Dr Utzke holds a doctorate in Financial Economics (minor in Computer Science), a Master’s degree in Forensic Accounting and International Finance (minor in Computer Science), a Master of Science in Blockchain Engineering and Digital Currency Coding, and Bachelor’s in Agricultural Business & Economics (minor in Computer Science).

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His accomplishments include receiving prestigious awards from the U.S. Dept. of Justice in three of the past years and the IRS Commissioner’s Award for his pioneering work in developing tools and providing support in DLT, Digital Assets, AI, and XR in criminal and civil investigations.

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• Technology Investor
• Thought leader & advisor
• Board of Snowball
• Raised over $1B Capital

Brian Shuster is one of the pioneers of the internet, and has developed and holds the patents to many core internet technologies and business methods. He is considered one of the trail-blazers in internet content provision, and has been discussed and featured in many industry and general news outlets, including: MSNBC.com, Business 2.0, Yahoo, Wired News, and many others.

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Many of the technologies developed by Mr. Shuster are now widely used across the spectrum of almost all other internet companies. Mr. Shuster has more than 30 patents and pending patents on such core internet technologies – ranging from internet operations to advanced and widely deployed advertising modalities.

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Mr. Shuster is currently the CEO of Ideaflood, Inc., an intellectual property development and holding company, and Utherverse Digital, Inc., the world’s premier Virtual World software development company with more than 12 million registered users and worldwide franchise operations.

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Dr. Carr Bettis is a serially successful entrepreneur, as the founder and chief architect of numerous market-leading financial science and technology innovations and businesses that have been acquired by Merrill Lynch, Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), Primark/Disclosure (now Thomson Reuters), Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Advanced Equities/GreenBook Financial (now First Allied Capital Management), and Sabrient Systems. Dr. Bettis jointly owns intellectual property with Thomson Reuters via his IP firm CB Partners, and is Co-founder and Chairman of Verus Analytics, an 18 year quantitative financial technology company.

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He manages his family’s private equity portfolio via Fathom Lab, and sits on other selected boards, including AudioEye (AEYE) and iMemories.

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Ashton founded the broadcasting networks Crypto Coin Show and Blockchain Interviews, and since 2014 has hosted over 1,100 interviews with the leading blockchain startups, investors, and thought leaders. His content is syndicating with some of the largest financial channels globally, including Reuters Insider Financial Network / Refinitiv TV.

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Ashton is a public speaker and thought leader of his generation, speaking in 10 countries on topics such as digital finance, digital economics, DeFi, NFT’s, and blockchain protocol scalability. His speaking experience includes keynoting the Singapore TechLaw conference with the President of Microsoft for the Singaporean Government.

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As a Geotechnical Engineer, Ivica’s background lends itself to understanding complex mathematic concepts, including blockchain and cryptocurrency.

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He founded an online business in 2005. In 2013, Ivica opened his first Bitcoin wallet on blockchain.com. He started investing in coins in 2015 and now has a YouTube channel with over 15,000 subscribers where he shares knowledge about cryptocurrency with Hungarians.

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In Hungary, the main language is Hungarian, he is able to communicate and help his audience in Hungarian. That is why he chose his own path to be a successful entrepreneur and to have wealth so that he can help others.

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Thought leader and innovator in the web 3 space with extensive experience. Director of marketing for NFT collections, new coin offerings, Tokenomics, music productions, and Hollywood studios moving into the web3 sector. Content creator for multiple influencers in cryptocurrency and NFTs. Speaker for notable conferences such as NFTcon, NFT NYC, and host producer and committee member for NFT3 LA Awards Show. With a Bachelor of Science degree in mental health and addictions, my aim is to help companies focus not only on productivity and bandwidth, but also on the overall health of employees and consumers of products in Web 3. Creating history in the space as one of the fastest-rising connectors and creators in blockchain market psychology.