Escalon and Early Growth support early stage, venture backed and high growth startups by providing CFO, accounting, financial modeling, tax and HR advisory services.Work exclusively with venture backed crypto, Web3, NFT (gaming, fine art, wine, cultural heritage), DeFi and protocols. Advising on finance, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, and growth strategies. DeFi clients are developing on Algorand and Solana.As a CFO, I help start-ups grow and succeed by better understanding the intersection between their business and their finances. I have successfully guided two clients through Series A rounds ($20M raised) and through two acquisition transactions ($200M).Client roster includes:* Cryptocurrency hedge fund (huge success in high frequency trading)* Web3 based FPS Game (major talent)* L1/L2 blockchain with large presence in Japan (defining the term Blockspace 2.0)* Datacenter developer building mid-market datacenters on disadvantaged power (5 to 25 MW, "pivot to AI")* Content Creator (satirical and educational content for criminal justice reform)

Athena Bitcoin offers easy and convenient ways to convert between sovereign currency and crypto-currency at our Bitcoin ATM. Athena operates in the US, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina. The Company has a POS system for major retailers to accept Bitcoin and other crypto currency at their cash registers or online. And offers a wallet that millions of people have used to hold USD and BTC, transact freely between the two, and access our hundreds of Bitcoin ATMs.Eric took the company public in January 2020 and grew the stock price by 10X until he stepped down as CEO. He raised more than $20M of capital and placed the first Bitcoin ATM in El Salvador and led the development of the Chivo system which gave a bitcoin wallet to more than 4-million people in just 40-days.

Zen Trading FX was a non-bank liquidity provider trading G-10 and select EM currencies on many FX platforms.I wrote most of the trading and risk management software and systems as well as supervised the trading during US trading hours.