Christopher Allen Email & Phone Number

Blockchain Commons was founded with the goal of supporting blockchain infrastructure and the broader security industry through cryptographic research, cryptographic & privacy protocol implementations, architecture & code reviews, industry standards, etc. In particular, we seek to improve the blockchain ecosystem by focusing on infrastructure and solutions.

As the founder and chair of Rebooting Web of Trust (RWOT), and executive producer of our innovative design workshops, I have led the development and hosting of 11 major in-person events around the world since November 2015. Our mission is to empower individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit. Under my stewardship, RWOT has.

Mitchell, ACT, AU

Privacy, security, and identity are increasingly critical issues on the internet. Christopher’s expertise with these issues and with decentralized blockchain technologies has led to advisory roles at a variety of institutions. His term self-sovereign identity, detailing a set of ten identity principles, has been broadly adopted and is the heart of a new.

Mitchell, ACT, AU

I have been a keynote speaker or panelist at numerous tech conferences on the the topics of entrepreneurship, social software, social networks, online security, and collaboration. I also provide consulting on these topics to a number of entrepreneurial companies for a combination of cash and stock.

Mitchell, ACT, AU

Life with Alacrity is my professional blog, covering a variety of topics including social software, collaboration, groupware, online communities, facilitation, wiki, entrepreneuring, internet security, trust, cryptography, privacy, interface design, internet media, internet tools, and other topics that I am passionate about.

Mitchell, ACT, AU

Offer social web & blog coaching services for executives and entrepreneurs. This includes helping them focus and develop their own personal brand and teaching them how to get involved in conversational communities such as blogs and social networks. A particular emphasis on teaching the scanning and focusing skills required to manage time so that.

Mitchell, ACT, AU

Manage and perform technical due-diligence for a $6M portfolio of investments in approximately a dozen seed stage or angel round companies, including business-to-business software, Internet games, robotics, and high-tech industrial material creation. To date, portfolio has shown considerable resilience and strength, despite the down-turn of the stock.

US

Founded online game company and gathered staff of game-industry professionals. Oversaw development and release of company's first game, release of game-building toolkit, a 24/7/365 customer support, subscription billing infrastructure with multiply redundant Internet connectivity. Initiated acquisitions of and partnerships with several other online games.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

Blockstream is a leader in Bitcoin and blockchain technology, specializing in crypto currencies, open assets, and smart contracts. As Principal Architect, Christopher offered his expertise on a variety of information security technology projects. He developed strategies related to industry standards and supported cross-company collaboration. Christopher.

Mountain View, CA, US

Blockchain University offers weekend courses on the topic of Bitcoin & Blockchain Technology. Christopher is working with the faculty team to create courses and course materials to more effectively teach the diverse students who participate in this program. Christopher Allen also is co-teaching in a number of these courses and other offerings.

Christopher led strategy, technology & product development, and user experience for this lean startup.The mission of ReOrient Media is to create tools for people to communicate effectively about complexity. Our products help people use visual and audio, show the big picture, engage through story, and adapt to different audiences and circumstances. We.

Seattle, Washington, US

Christopher engaged with teaching the next generation of business and entrepreneurial executives. He taught Technology Leadership and was Adjunct Faculty and Entrepreneur in Residence in the MBA in Sustainable Systems program at Bainbridge Graduate Institute at BGI.edu. There he was part of the BGI faculty team that designed a totally integrated first-year.

Co-founded one of the most influential iOS (iPhone, iPad, iWatch) and hosted it's hackathon for 7 years. Formed just one week after the original iPhone was released in the July 2007, iPhoneDevCamp is a yearly 3-day developer event. At the main event site in the Bay Area and with satellite locations all over the world, this BarCamp-style unconference has.

Blackphone is the world's first smartphone which places privacy and control directly in the hands of its users. I was responsible for mobile app developer relations, and leading the strategy team to launch in 2015 the world's first privacy-focused mobile app store, a curated marketplace for not only security related apps, but also for apps that demonstrate.

iPhone in Action, published by Manning Publications, offers a complete introduction to web and native SDK programming for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The book is co-authored with Shannon Appelcline.

Advisor to Raph Koster, CEO of Areae, Inc., a San Diego based privately-held virtual world developer. First alpha-tester of Metaplace.com. Areae sold to Playdom, which then sold to Disney in 2010.

Advisor to John Buckman, CEO of Magnatune, the open music record label. Mentored John on the creation of his personal Magnatune blog. Assisted with outreach and evangelism to technology influencers that are the initial market of Magnatune. Assisted with technical issues regarding ID3 and XML meta-tagging of music.

US

MG Taylor Corporation is a management consulting organization that specializes in architecting physical spaces for collaboration, as well as delivering tools, processes that facilitate individuals and organizations. I have been an advisor to the company for many years in the area of collaboration and groupware technology, was a board member for two years.

Mississauga, Ontario, CA

Oversaw integration of Certicom Corp with previous company, Consensus Development. Coordinated overseas development, export strategy, and management of extensive patent portfolio. Active leadership role in the $2M dollar acquisition of Uptronics, a security consulting house, and also led investigations into other acquisition possibilities.

Founded e-commerce pioneer and online security company. Led it successfully through growth and eventual merger with the publicly-traded Certicom Corp as part of $25M deal, with a compounded internal rate of return for investors in excess of 125%. Orchestrated development with Netscape of the SSL encryption standard, which has since become the security.

New York, NY, US

Under contract to AOL, launched the the Mac Developers Forum, an online developer community. Grew the MDV Forum to one of the largest Mac developers communities online, with a staff of over two dozen volunteers. Over the years many of my staff became Forum Leaders of other AOL Forums online, making the Mac Developers Forum a essential part of the success.

Dreams of the Phoenix was a leading publisher in the early Macintosh software industry. It published seven award-winning retail software products. These included the first bulletin board system for the Macintosh, the first MacBinary terminal emulator, and one of the first 3D CAD packages for the Macintosh. Dreams of the Phoenix products have since been.