Tom Kineshanko
Tom is co-founder and leads venture investing at Protos Asset Management and is Executive Director at Orbit - a consulting firm that helps large organizations create and manage crypto assets.
Tom got his first Bitcoin in 2012 as a gift while a student at Singularity University. He has been working to ensure the success of Bitcoin and a decentralized money/power system for the world since.
In 2013 Tom set up the first crypto “fund” like entity in Canada, a $500,000 experimental crypto investment company that was long BTC & invested in the ETH ICO. Between 2013 - 2017 Tom invested in >25 blockchain protocols, including the Ethereum ICO at .25 cents. In 2017, he founded the first licensed crypto asset manager in Canada, FirstBlock Capital.
In 2017 Tom co-created/completed a successful security token ICO for the first tokenized hedge fund (to democratize access to professional crypto management) under the Swiss asset management company Protos.
Before crypto, Tom was the founder/CEO of a UNFCCC/CDM carbon credit development company in Canada (Habitat Enterprises) that reduced carbon on three continents. He also launched the world’s first “roof auction” for solar gridbid.com.
Along with Blockchain for Climate Foundation, Tom advises several crypto organizations using blockchain for impact including Argo Blockchain, which raised CAD $42M and became the first blockchain company to go public on the London Stock Exchange.
Learn more about Tom’s work and path on the Spread Great Ideas podcast.