Mark Blackman is a Sr. Director Product - Platform at Hashgraph. He possess expertise in wireless, product management, telecommunications, mobile devices, integration and 28 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I've had the privilege of having Mark in a couple of my teams and he has continued to impress me with his strong acumen in multiple areas as well as his unique sense and vision for new technology opportunities -which has most recently impressed me through his vision in machine learning and blockchain. Mark's skills are at a advanced senior level in software engineering, product management, process development, and project management. Mark has highly effective experience throughout product and organization phases, from early-stage fluid environments all the way through to mature, highly scrutinized commercial operational environments. Mark takes on extensive personal responsibility, contributes greatly to positive team dynamics, and delivers on his accountabilities. In addition to his strong individual and teamwork oriented product development skills, Mark also has valuable futurist and analytical skills in areas of new technology and business opportunity. I've witnessed Mark ideate on, sensibly design for, and robustly deliver on innovative and secure data collection and processing systems years ahead of contemporary internet companies. More recently, Mark has been a clear pioneer in scalable methods to drive ideation and invention in blockchain technologies and has served as a bridge to connect blockchain technical ability to business utility. Mark has also pioneered approaches to bring machine learning benefits to patent management systems and has opened his colleagues eyes to unique, valuable, and practical ways to benefit from machine learning in internal systems and external products. I would enthusiastically welcome the opportunity to work with Mark again in the future. "