Mr. Smith is a leading securities, corporate, tax, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, chief compliance officer, chief risk officer, executive, and successful serial entrepreneur and executive with over 23 years of experience building and financing companies and strengthening the legal, risk management, and compliance functions of companies, including, among others, those in the digital asset, technology, investment fund, and financial services industry. He has also represented companies at all stages of maturity with their capital and debt raising efforts via private offerings and public offerings.Mr. Smith has also been the Global General Counsel and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Composable Finance, a global decentralized finance and technology company facilitating cross-chain transactions in a trustless, risk-free manner and for Big Watt Digital, a global digital asset mining company using renewable energy and cutting edge technology. At these companies, Mr. Smith provided the necessary support and structuring for rounds of successful capital raises despite an extremely difficult market cycle while also leading all other legal and compliance matters.
Mike Saigh is an American inventor, former stockbroker and business professor. Many of his inventions and creations are used daily by billions of people and companies around the globe. In the mid 1980’s he set out to invent and patent the first electronic book (the early foundation of today’s handheld electronic e-readers, such as the Kindle). His early inventions include video on demand, books on demand, and various technologies protecting and managing digital rights. Mike is one America’s most prolific, individual inventors that was the creator and inventor who patented the technology leading to digital streaming services such as iTunes, Spotify; YouTube and Netflix. He successfully sold his first family of patents to Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.In addition, his vast portfolio of inventions and patents include; wireless hospital information technology, automated logistical distribution for the retail industry, innovative alternative energy technologies, new smartphone and cellular protocols, high-tech entertainment applications, leading edge crime prevention and security networks and related technologies for emergency responders, and biometric devices and many other inventions.
Shower Zhang is a serial entrepreneur, Chemical Engineer, Corporate Executive, and Speaker with an MBA degree from Peking University. Shower has broad experience from Strategic Planning, Operation Management, Supply Chain, Negotiation to IT project implementations.Shower believes a business has to be fun, and it has to exercise everyone’s creative mind. She has created many innovative processes and structures in the Corporate and entrepreneurial world. Shower’s creative mind also extends to having co-invented several patents. She has one issued patent and four pending patents from the biomedical field to the digital world.As the first generation of immigrants and a female leader, Shower has dedication, integrity, and a reliable and responsible work ethic. Shower also has decades of proven leadership experience and Human Resources management skills. She believes the management and motivation of people is an art and a key to success of any company because people make things happen. She has a passion for creating successful cultures and executing carefully crafted strategies.
