Charles A. Kiser, Jr. Email & Phone Number

Dover, Delaware, US

Washington, US

Apex, North Carolina, US

I advise and consult startup, early stage and growth stage Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Technology, Enterprise, B2B, Government Contracting and Life Science companies on strategy, sales and marketing, raising capital, and exit positioning. I take on a unique role as the "Chief Reality Officer"​ with direct access and responsibilities to the customers.

Luminous Group is a consultancy focused on innovative applications of Blockchain based technologies, cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and other emerging technologies. We help our clients develop and implement growth strategies, design regulatory and risk management solutions, and provide education and training.

• Atlas Blockchain was a public Bitcoin mining company traded on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) under the symbol AKE. Atlas focused on being a low-cost producer, with wholly owned facilities, in stable jurisdictions..
• Led $40mm public Bitcoin mining company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange
• Developed Long Term Strategy to leverage industrial BTC mining as foundation to support growth into transactional and higher-margin business lines centered around financial services and crypto exchanges
• Pursued M&A consolidation strategy to preserve cash and leverage our balance sheet to potentially acquire struggling competitors in 2018 market downturn
• Navigated two separate fundamental change of business cycles with Canadian regulators ultimately pivoting from Bitcoin mining into Cannabis production after Canada legalized Cannabis in 2018
• Concluded acquisition of Isracann BioSciences in October 2019

Falls Church, Virginia, US

As CEO of Griot, I helped grow a fledgling family software project to a viable early-stage offering with paying customers, industry partners, and a strategy that could revolutionize the way GovCon transacts business using blockchain technology. At its core Griot is your easy, affordable, small business solution to become DCAA, FAR and GAAP compliant. We’re.

AccelerateDC Venture Mentoring Service offers formal and confidential mentoring to entrepreneurs with early stage technology ventures in the greater Washington, DC area.

Silver Spring, MD, US

• At Blockchain Technolgy Consumer Solutions (BTCS) we took the first Bitcoin/Blockchain company public in February 2014. In both an operational and holding company strategy we invested in 4 cryptocurrency startup.
• Developed Complete Marketing Strategy for eCommerce and Digital Currency products
• Managed Investor Relations and PR
• Helped Draft all annual and quarterly SEC filings and reports
• Provided Comprehensive analysis of potential revenue opportunities including introducing program to recruit exclusive KickStarter and Indiegogo backed companies into our dealflow and eCommerce site
• Developed Kickoff Strategy to acquire low cost cryptocurrency mining equipment through grassroots acquisition program

• 60° Pharmaceuticals, LLC (60P) is a pharmaceutical holding company founded originally in 2010 with a mission to discover and develop new medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with the intent of alleviating.
• Negotiating and implementing contracts for new products/technology/vendors/advisors
• Partnering with domestic and international companies
• Drafting business plans, partnering agreements and overall corporate strategic plan tied to exit strategy, investor liquidity opportunities, inflection points, and non-dilutive capital opportunities
• Identifying and enabling creation of subsidiary locations in support of our global strategy (Brisbane AUS 2013)
• Analyzing new markets and disease areas

Washington, DC, US

• Director of Sales and Business Development - Apiphany Inc., August 2012- April 2013, API Management Platform
• First non-technical hire into technology led early stage API Management company
• Led initial rebranding and website redevelopment to move from technology centric messaging to customer driven messaging branding and content creation
• Implemented Initial Sales and Marketing strategy targeted at Media, Travel and Retail industry resulting in first enterprise customer, Random House Publishing, within 3 months
• Implemented/Admin for full SalesForce CRM and Data.com lead sourcing systems
• Managed lead generation relationship with Vorsight to improve quality of leads and build marketing campaign database

Reston, Virginia, US

Sales and Marketing Consultant and subsequent employee for Cloud Based Video Management Hosting service. Introduced customized CRM solution, lead generation and forecasting process for Enterprise Account Management.

On a consulting basis provided initial Sales and Forecasting infrastructure, conducted direct customer and partner presentations for product launch, participated in Angel and VC fund raising engagements.Geostellar raised $14mm in Series B financing in 2012

Arlington, VA, US

FortiusOne developed a powerful Mapping and Visual Analytics platform for decision support and data analysis.GeoIQ bridges the gap between standard Business Intelligence tools and location or geographic based data. Since 80% of all business data has a location based component FortiusOne enables business users to use visualization and analysis methods along.

Somerset, NJ, US

Bluenog is a software and solutions company that focuses on Content Management, Portal and Business Intelligence Solutions. We developed the first open source platform to integrate Content Mgmt, Portal and BI into a platform called Bluenog ICE.We are also an Oracle Partner and provide software and services around Oracle's entire suite of Database and.

San Diego, California, US

Enterprise Account Manager, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Analytics. East Coast Region- Travel. Transportation and Distribution. 6 named Accounts with Net New Business Focus,SW/HW and Services model.Supported Teradata/NCR separation and IPO in October 2007

New York, NY, US

Life Sciences Data Warehousing, Content/Document Management and eSubmissions Practice Area Business Development ManagerSupported Ness IPO in September 2004

Mid Atlantic Federal and Commercial Business Development Manager for eClinical Trials, Clinical Trials Management Systems (CTMS) and related services supporting web based Clinical Data Systems.Supported PhaseForward IPO in July 2004

National Bioinformatics Business Development Manager for large scale R&D data integration platform unifying sequence analysis, expression analysis, protein - protein interaction databases, genomic and genetic analysis platforms. Systems to replicate NIH and publicly available research data sets behind firewall in an enterprise, dashboard and workflow.