gitbook/team/lux-team.md

Our Team

Zach Kelling has over a decade of experience in blockchain, advertising, and marketing technology. He founded Hanzo, a Techstars-funded AI marketing platform that has powered some of the most successful crowdfunded product launches in history. Across ov Hanzo has generated billions in valued. Zach also founded Arca, where he pioneered the first digital securities platform approved by the SEC to tokenize US treasuries and government debt, and served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Ikigai Asset Management, another early crypto hedge fund.

He’s a founding member of several DAOs, including DEVxDAO, the first Switzerland-based blockchain association DAO, and BrightMoments DAO, the first gallery-focused DAO, which launched the first NFT gallery in Venice, California.

Zach is a prolific contributor and member of the Ethereum, EOS, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, and Go ecosystems. You don’t have to look farther than StackOverflow to find the millions of developers Zach has educated and inspired. On GitHub, Zach actively maintains hundreds of open-source projects.

Vincent Butta brings 30 years of international business leadership in entertainment, social media, and licensing as well as his experience building and selling early stage startups, to $300+ million enterprises. Vincent created one of the largest marketing companies (ADC) in the US (3rd largest in the world) and was responsible for the launch and rollout of over 400 consumer products for P&G, J&J, Gillette, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, and many other global consumer products including the “Pump Sneaker” for Reebok, bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker, and the overall creation and global roll out of beauty retailer “Sephora” which included the creation of 30 new brands for the chain.

In the entertainment space, Vincent has both studio and independent film experience managing domestic and international film releases for Disney, Fox and Paramount. As managing partner of Crimson Films he executive produced the 2005 cult-hit Malevolence, its 2009 sequel Bereavement as well as the horror star studded cult-hit comedy Brutal Massacre. In addition, as President of Solaris Entertainment the company produced Tumbleweeds (winner of Sundance Film Festival and two Golden Globe awards, and one Oscar nomination).

In 2005 he EP’d Miracle about the 1980 US Olympic team with Disney, and 2007’s Pride and Glory with Colin Farrell, John Voight and Ed Norton and in 2010 Warrior which featured Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte and garnered best supporting actor and Oscar nominations. In addition, Vincent has Broadway credits as a producer for the Musical "Himself and Nora" about the life and loves of writer James Joyce.

After selling his company in 2000 Vincent was focused on turnaround and business acceleration on behalf of VC’s, Private equity, high net worth, and institutional investors. Some of those companies included SuperStock (Vice Chairman), a digital stock photography distribution company, Dashing Divia a spa franchise (President), SAAS/Mobile technology company EMT (CEO), Solaris Entertainment (President), BonkoTV (OTT platform), and most recently Carnegie Technologies (President and COO) where on behalf of a large Private equity fund he managed operations for 8, B2B tech platforms (from Fin-tech and SAAS platforms to IOT and Satellite communications)

Most recently, Vincent led the sale of the breakthrough B2C social media platform “Triller” to Proxima Media. Vincent serves on the board of Triller.

Vishnu Seesahai is a researcher specializing in engineering innovation and applied mathematics. Recent research topics have encompassed computation, decentralized architectures, blockchains and cryptography. Vishnu is the architect of the PKT.Cash network and the founder of the Healthmatica app, a public benefit health-technology.

Vishnu is also the creator of the ODApp.io privacy bridge and the WPKT token which offers cross-chain composability on the PKT network. Currently, migrating ODApp to the Teleport network, operated by Bridge DAO, an MPC based decentralized privacy bridge.

Other works include:

1. Space DAO - working to launch a low orbit PKT network instance.

2. HFT Bots - Statistical modeling and numerical analysis of high dimensional heteroscedastic data for market applications including HFT algo-trading bots and machine learning for healthcare.

Vishnu's past work spans the intersection of media, and technology. Vishnu is the creator of the DVAV (Digital Video Village), purchased by Lionsgate entertainment.

Ari is the author of 9 books in the technology space, on topics from hardware to software.

He’s a well-known speaker and educator at technology conferences across the world, and a senior consultant for AppDev at Amazon Web Services.

Ari co-founded companies including Fullstack.io and Fieldday, and served as an instructor at Hack Reactor with mastery in Javascript, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, and overall engineering.

He has co-authored D3 on AngularJS, Zero to Deep Learning, Fullstack React, Native, & Vue.

Computer language geek at heart, Ari still has a soft-spot for his days as a professional comedian.

Marcus is the founder and former CEO of Skully, a company that designs and manufactures AR and VR technology. They’re best known for inventing the world’s first augmented reality motorcycle helmet.

He’s also the co-founder and CEO of Halcyon Biotech, a gene-based nootropics company, the CMO at iTrust Capital, a tax-advantaged crypto IRA investment firm, and Chairman of Payminto, an AI-driven credit card processing platform for merchants with crypto remittance.

Marcus studied neuroscience at LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University) in Munich, and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology and Data Science from Wayne State University.

Before Silicon Valley, Marcus was a German Chancellor Fellow and worked on international relations between Germany and the USA on behalf of the Humboldt Foundation.