Shyft Unveils Board of Advisors Comprised of Top Crypto, Industry, and Regulatory Leaders

Shyft, a leading blockchain-based solution that is building a trusted ecosystem to enable secure and private data transfers, has announced its high profile Board of Advisors. Shyft’s inaugural group of advisors bring deep industry knowledge from international business and finance, blockchain, economics, and Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) compliance. The Board of Advisors will play a critical role in providing strategic guidance across multiple dimensions in Shyft’s mission to make the global economy more efficient and effectively regulated.

Shyft International Chairman Joseph Weinberg says: “At Shyft, we are ambitiously working to redefine the broken way our world uses and thinks about data, the same data that today defines our identity. Our group of advisors understand the dire need for a new system that allows attested data to not only be shared securely and privately, but also a system that can help build reputational identity from this data that can be used globally across borders. This type of identity based on trustworthiness and credibility helps build a global economy that empowers the 3.5 billion people that are currently ‘underidentified’ and ‘unbanked,’ meaning that they are unable to participate in regulatory economies. Our caliber of advisors is second to none in the industry, which a testament to the enormity of the problem and to Shyft as the solution.”

Shyft’s advisors have diverse backgrounds, experiences and broad networks, and can individually and collectively provide unique perspective and strategic direction on the global and complex topic of identity, compliance and privacy, and how a disruptive technology like blockchain can solve a global problem. The advisors were carefully selected to include experts in finance, business, regulation, data privacy, and compliance and AML expertise. The Shyft Board of Advisors includes:

 Joseph Weinberg — Shyft Chairman; Paycase CEO; Think Tank Specialist to the OECD

Meltem Demirors — Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares; Member of Global Future Council on Blockchain, World Economic Forum

Daniel Kornitzer — EVP and Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe Group

Anthony Di Iorio — CEO & Founder, Decentral and Jaxx; Ethereum Co-founder

Brock Pierce - Chairman, Bitcoin Foundation

Charlie Schrem — Founder, Bitcoin Foundation and Crypto.IQ

Ben Gorlick — Investor; Chief of Strategy, Paycase; Founder / COO CLoudHashing; CTO CrowdMachine, Blockstream, Peer Nova

Marat Kichikov — Managing Partner, CaBitfurypital

Peter Warrack — Chief Compliance Officer, Bitfinex; Director, AML Advisory and Compliance Officer at Bank of Montreal

Jeremy Bornstein — SVP and Group Head, Mastercard Canada

Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar — CEO and Cofounder, RSK labs; President and Cofounder, Koibanx

Desmond McKenzie — Blockchain & Ecosystem Expert, Tata Consultancy Services

Lord Meghnad Desai — Noted Economist; Lord Speaker in the British House of Lords

Lord Anthony St John — Expert on Foreign Affairs and Clean Technology; Member of British House of Lords

Loretta Joseph — OECD Think Tank Advisor; Australian Digital Chamber of Commerce Chair

Dr. Jane Thomason — CEO, Blockchain Quantum Impact

Eyal Herzog — Product Architect, Bancor

In efforts to build and connect the many ecosystems that deal with data and identity today, Shyft will be featuring individual dialogue and commentary from its advisors through its various channels starting in early July.