Meet the Emercoin Team

President, Acquisition Workforce, Inc. (AWi)

World renowned venture capitalist, Bill originally trained as a chip designer and joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor after earning a BSEE with Honors from University of Illinois.

After completing a MBA at Harvard, he was issued badge #A001 at TSMC, now among the most valuable tech companies in the world. He has been a venture capitalist since 1991 and today is the Chairman of Treasure Data, a Board Member of Bitfury and Voxer.

Bill was Founding Chairman and CEO of iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and Founding Chairman of IPinfusion. He has served as Board Director of 7 publicly listed companies that grew from startups he funded at their formative stages. He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Committee and is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University.

Founder and Director of First Block Capital, Canada’s first fully registered investment firm that invests in crypto assets. He has been in active in the blockchain space since early 2013 as partner in venture capital firm CrossPacific Capital and has been working full time on crypto projects since late 2016.

He started his career at automotive multinational Daimler in the mid-1990s in several financial controling positions.In 2004 he co-founded China’s largest online video site Tudou.com, that was listed on the NASDAQ in 2011 and later taken private by Alibaba in a multi-billion dollar deal.

He is a big believer that blockchain technology will completely change every aspect of business over the next couple of years and wants to actively support teams that put technology first.

Mr. Kurosaki started his business carrier at Intel Japan, and then founded Aisys Corporation in 1988. The company has been supporting Silicon Valley start-ups in entering Japanese market. To incubate startup companies, he provides hands-on support on all phases of establishing operations such as strategic partnerships, local management hiring, business development, etc.

In 1999, he founded IT-Farm as one of very few hands-on type venture capital in Japan. Through all his carrier, he has built an incomparable network in both Japanese IT industries and executives in Silicon Valley.

With over 35 years in IT, Alex Petrov has the expertise in both hardware and software solutions. He has expertise in high-load systems optimization, databases, big-data analysis, data networking and communications on a large scale.

He is a former IT security auditor, with specialties in business processes optimizations and crisis management. His track record includes the launch of new successful businesses and global consumer brands.

He has been leading high-performance teams to enable fast and reliable transactions in world-renown cryptocurrencies, creating the ground for future growth with the Bitfury Group. Alex will be responsible for overseeing technical advisory efforts for Emercoin.

Portfolio Manager, MBA graduate, currently working towards the CFA accreditation, with over 5 years of experience in Financial Market, specializing in Portfolio Management, Investment analysis and FX market.

18 years of IT manager experience as a country manager for various Silicon Valley companies including WindRiverSystem, IP Infusion, Treasure Data and Clustrix and have experience as founder of two companies SiliconValleyTech, and IntelRa.

Lee has extensive experience and knowledge in laying down the company’s technical foundation for Marketing in Korea with specialty in embedded system, mobile telecommunication, IP Network & Network Security and Big Data Market. His past career as successful sportsman, he was 5 times Olympian in Rifle Shooting Events with Gold medal (50m 60shot Prone Event) in Barcelona Olympic in 1992 & World Champion (50m 3 position Event) in Moscow World shooting championship in 1990.

Marc Taverner is head of business development at Bitfury Group. He brings 18 years of experience working with market leading, global technology companies to Bitfury. He is also the founder of a successful modem distribution company.

Marc has held sales leadership roles with many leading technology companies, including the world's largest provider of unified communications services and market leaders in educational technology solutions.

Marc received his BA Hons in European Business Studies from Brunel University, UK and Ecole supérieure de Commerce de Clermont-Ferrand, France.