I am a business builder with uncommon breadth and depth of knowledge. I have a unique ability to integrate and identify synergies between business, legal, and technology to drive business growth. I am an “interdisciplinarian”.I teach brevity.I generate and integrate new substantive and meaningful ideas. I think about things in ways others do not. I act as an ambassador, translator, facilitator, connector, interpreter, and mediator between disciplines and industries to find cross-disciplinary value. Business expertise: finance, negotiating deals, business development, and branding. Founder of three profitable businesses, one public. Experienced and successful in senior business development. Relationship builder.Legal expertise: J.D., California bar, negotiation, contracts, IP, and privacy, AI.Technology expertise: B.A.Sc. electrical engineering, cybersecurity, fintech, data analytics, AI, and life sciences.International: Negotiated deals in Africa, Asia, South America. Studied in France. Worked in Canada, UK, and USA. Citizen of Canada, USA, and EU. Lives in Vancouver.I am a keynote speaker at investor, cybersecurity, money-laundering, regulatory and prosecution conferences throughout the world. Keynote topics include cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, digital payments, privacy, technology and business, technology start-ups, and trust.A recent interview on CBC TV is at cybercurb.com/pub .Keynotes include:– European Central Bank, Frankfurt– National Association of Attorneys General conference, Burlington– FBI Cybersecurity Conference, New York– Value Investing Conference, Toronto– OffshoreAlert anti-money laundering conference, Miami– International Association of Prosectors conference, T'bilisiMy published books include the foremost bitcoin-skeptic book, “The Coinmen”, "The Cybersecurity Handbook", "On Trust", and "Power in Mistake”. I was Head of Strategy for Microsoft Network UK in London and have published a widely read journal article calling for novel policy action, which policy the US government later adopted.I practiced administrative and regulatory law with the now Norton Rose Fulbright, a full-service international law firm. I have a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc., Elec. Eng.) with Honours from the University of Toronto, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from EDHEC University in France, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of British Columbia.I dumb things down to make them accessible. Accessibility is everything.—My online words are never legal advice.
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Vp, ContentVeeeuVancouver, Bc, Ca -
CeoTowtol Dec 2023 - PresentThe future of money. -
Business DevelopmentTodaq Jan 2023 - PresentToronto, Ontario, CaInstant API-API micropayments of as little as 1/10 of a penny for digital content or services. True peer-to-peer. Ledgerless — no database or blockchain. See todaq.net. -
Entrepreneur-In-ResidenceRogers Cybersecure Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University Jan 2023 - PresentBrampton, Ontario, CaMentoring companies at the RBC Finsec incubator, the foremost fintech and cybersecurity accelerator, to help them grow into industry leaders. -
Managing PartnerCybercurb Nov 2016 - PresentVancouver, British Columbia, CaDevelops and implements business growth related to digital payments, cybersecurity, data analytics, digital identity, law, privacy, AI, regulation, and intellectual property. Clients include those listed in the Projects section below.Keynote topics include: cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, digital payments, privacy, technology and business, technology start-ups, and trust. For details on keynote speaking, see https://champions-speakers.co.uk/speaker-agent/bob-seeman -
Business Development ExecutiveSoft Trust Inc. Jan 2013 - Dec 2023Vancouver, British Columbia, CaBusiness development, marketing and mergers and acquisitions advice for this encrypted SaaS communications system for gigabytes of secure, private data transfer in compliance with the privacy principles of the European (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Soft Trust provides a simple secure solution to transfer large amounts of data. Without simple easy-to-use solutions, people generally revert to insecure solutions to transfer large volumes of data. -
Co-Founder & Board MemberRiwi Nov 2009 - Dec 2023Toronto, Ontario, CaI co-founded and was a member of the Board of Directors of RIWI (TSX-V: RIWI), a profitable privacy-compliant data collection company which has asked questions of over a billion people on earth in the last 10 years and collects no personal information.RIWI clients include billion dollar macro hedge funds that trade on RIWI data, the Bank of America which reports RIWI data to their best customers, the US State Department which uses the RIWI system to message-test USA public policy in every country in the world and global non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations, Greenpeace, The World Bank and the International Gay and Lesbian Association which use RIWI data in their public reports. -
Co-Founder And Managing PartnerRore Feb 2019 - Nov 2023I founded and manage the RORE branding consultancy for early stage technology companies. -
AttorneyCybersecurity Attorney Jun 1995 - Oct 2023Vancouver, British Columbia, CaMember of the California State Bar. Data privacy and cybersecurity. -
CeoClera Inc. Jan 2002 - Dec 2017Vancouver, British Columbia, CaFounded and built a drug discovery and development company for aging-related mental illness.Business development and financing, raised over $8 million in equity financing, $4.5 million in government grants and over $6 million in in-kind research support through partners.Negotiated over 100 agreements, including six major detailed international agreements involving data intellectual property with six major global pharmaceutical companies located in the USA, Europe and South Korea, and a detailed clinical trial agreement covering data intellectual property with a university hospital.Conducting and supervising the collection and cybersecurity of the large amount of data from two Phase IIa clinical trialsManaging activities of teams research scientists and medical research doctors in the Clera lab at the MaRS facility in downtown Toronto, at the University Health Network (Toronto) and contracts with five major global pharmaceutical companies based in Europe, the USA and South Korea. -
Chairman And City Organizer, First TuesdayFirst Tuesday Jan 1999 - Dec 2002Barcelona, EsFounded and built the monthly networking and educational event for technology entrepreneurs, investors and service providers. -
CeoAdit Corp. 1998 - 2001Vancouver, British Columbia, CaNegotiated international deals with governments for Internet advertising technology company including one of the first deals to help a country monetize its country code top level domain (ccTLD).Collected a vast number of data points and optimized advertisements so that the user would be presented with advertisements that would be most relevant and valuable. -
Head Of Strategy, Microsoft Network UkMicrosoft 1997 - 1998Redmond, Washington, UsGuided transition to new web portal strategy. -
ConsultantCenerva Limited Aug 1996 - Jul 1997Blaby, England, GbTechnical and regulatory expert for advising government and companies on telecommunications regulation and the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). (Cenerva was formerly named InterConnect Communications.)Consulted to clients on telecommunications regulation and data protection (then called the Data Protection Directive which formed the basis for GDPR) and the Internet Domain Name System (DNS), one of the largest and most important databases of structured data – the data that controls the Internet. -
LawyerNorton Rose Fulbright 1988 - 1994Global, GbPracticed administrative and regulatory law.Clients included a wide variety of local authorities, industry and professional associations, the British Columbia government, corporations, and also individuals who were challenging government decisions. Provided hundreds of legal opinions and worked on dozens of transactions.
Bob Seeman Education Details
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University Of TorontoElectrical Engineering -
The University Of British ColumbiaLaw
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Edhec Business SchoolInternet Strategy
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Bob Seeman attended University Of Toronto, The University Of British Columbia, Edhec Business School.
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