Garrett MacDonald

• Token economics expert, leading the design and integration of a sustainable economic model for the Energy Web Foundation, while ensuring its technical feasibilty and legal compliance.
• Developing the core business, blockchain architecture, and ecosystem around the Energy Web blockchain whie working alongside the world's leading energy companies and climate experts
• Specialist in Blockchain technology as applied to energy, cryptography focus
• Working with regulators, governments, corporations, and startups to implement this technology in real-world systems

• Designing sustainable token-economic models for many of the most successful companies in the blockchain ecosystem.
• Designing blockchain architecture, and implementing it for corproates and startups wishing to utilize the technology.

• Working closely with startup companies from around Europe, advising fintech startups and consulting for fellow VCs prospecting investments in the blockchain space.
• Specialist in Bitcoin, and Blockchain Development and Integration

• A 501c3 nonprofit, The Gary Foundation aims to cure Chondrosarcoma, the cancer that took my father.
• Provides grants to research projects and assistance to affected families in need.

• Cognitive Inc. provided services in the Cryptocurrency industry, including blockchain design, Mining (SHA-256d) ASIC design, currency trading, and management consulting.

• In March of 2012, my IPO sold out within three days, initially raising 2500 bitcoins, which at the time was just over $12,000 USD.
• I grew the company from a total $50,000 investment to a market cap of over one million dollars in less than two years.
• Cognitive was publicly traded on three online bitcoin exchanges, and commonly regarded as the best of all the assets on said exchanges.
• I designed ASIC hardware specifically for mining bitcoin, managed negotiations on seven-figure deals, and ultimately exceeded the expectations set in all of my agreements.

• Bitcoin Mining Bond Issuance Company -- Synergy Mining
• Bitcoin Dispenser - Gave free bitcoins to new users
• Bitcoin Mining Pool Development - Stabilized mining payouts from a large degree of randomness to a steady, daily stream.
• Arbitrage. Lots and lots of arbitrage. The bitcoin markets were extremely volatile.

As soon as I was of age (14), my neighbor John Grimm hired me to work in his extremely high-tech diemaking shop, AMI Machining, where I operated various electron discharge machines.

• Learned much about diverse varieties of metals and how to cut them down to the hundred-thousandths of an inch using electron discharge machining technologies.
• Performed various tasks, varying from petty chores to managing network infrastructure to operating million dollar machinery where one wrong keystroke can disable a machine for months.