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, founders and investors.

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. Atlas undertook the build out of a 5MW facility in Washington state located next to the Grand Coulee Dam. This close proximity to the largest hydroelectric dam in North America initially allowed Atlas to have access to $0.03 electricity. Atlas started operations with 1,000 miners operating at a partner’s co-location facility in Montana. • 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 helping small to medium contractors manage and grow their business by offering a pay as you go solution to meet federal auditing requirements. We’ve got a dynamic and experienced team, and our product is already helping our customers capture and manage their contracting business. Griot's platform delivers tools needed for federal contractors focused on:Timecard ManagementProject ManagementInvoicing, Budgeting and CashflowSmall to medium contractors have struggled for years with combinations of spreadsheets, outside accounting services and QuickBooks to prepare for audits and manage their business.Griot offers a SaaS solution in a secure environment to get business owners back focused on growing and capturing new contracts and serving their existing clients.

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 companies covering payment processing, ATM and distribution networks, multi factor authentication wallets, and digital currency outlets. We built out one of the largest eCommerce platforms that accepted digital currencies, and built out our own large scale Bitcoin mining facility in North Carolina. In March, 2014 we led an investment round in GoCoin. GoCoin is a checkout solution designed to accommodate bitcoin and other popular alt-coins like litecoin and dogecoin. GoCoin recently partnered with Paypal on their digital currency efforts. www.gocoin.comIn May, 2014, we were the only strategic investor in Gem. Gem is a platform that provides simple and secure management of digital currency wallets using multi-sig technology. https://gem.coIn July, 2014, we led an investment round in ExpressCoin. ExpressCoin is a financial technology platform focused on helping people get access to digital currency. www.expresscoin.comIn October, 2014 we were the lead and sole investor in Coin Outlet. Coin Outlet is a rapidly growing manufacturer of AML / KYC compliant bitcoin ATMs. http://coinoutletatm.com• 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• Supported two additional rounds of capital investment through private offerings• Developed Marketing Strategy for initial launch of our dedicated mining facility

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 the suffering and economic burden they cause. In 2013 60P created an Australian subsidary, 60P Pty. Ltd. to expand our global footprint and center operations close to endemic areas. 60P also refined its portfolio by developing partnership opportunities that allow us to grow our partnerable assets in countries where R&D costs are treated most favorably using subsidies and tax/rebate incentives.As Director of Corporate Strategy and then COO I was responsible for developing our short term and long term capitalization strategy, aligning our corporate strategy to our lead project(s) milestones and inflection points, and supporting our global R&D and commercialization efforts. Responsibilities and highlights included:• 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• Direct management of our current Investment Banking vendor and Institutional Investor targets• Direct responsibility for any and all Investor Relations, SEC and regulatory requirements associated with all capitalization efforts • Creation of financial instruments for seed and early stage capital requirements• Support and improve IP status of current projects and portfolio

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• Met directly with Venture Capital Investors to align business strategy with milestones for securing next round financing• Secured additional customers in Travel and Transportation • Managed inside sales resources to support inbound sales process• Successfully built pipeline to support exit strategy through sale to Microsoft in early fall 2013

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 with traditional BI tools to create unique datasets and analyze them along with public and private data.Supported Value Creation and Growth for FortiusOne. Acquisition by ESRI in July 2012

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 Application Infrastructure products.

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 enabled research environment.Supported InforMax IPO in October 2000