Kevin W. Email & Phone Number

Operational and strategic advisor for organizations committed to BUIDL, which is the movement towards a decentralized digital economy through crypto, blockchain and AI. Services include day to day operating support, leadership / CEO coaching and M&A evaluation. I can serve in an official board capacity and / or in an operating advisor role. Current and potential partners include: Investment funds, venture backed and / or public companies as well as Media, data and event companiesInvesting into BUIDL strategies through LP stakes in investment funds, angel venture stakes and other tactical opportunities. Currently the Crypto & Digital Assets sector lead for HBS NYC Alumni Angels, a large and prominent early stage angel venture capital organization

New York, Us

CoinDesk, Inc is the standard in crypto / digital assets in media (winner of Polk and Loeb awards), events (Consensus, the largest crypto / Web3 festival) and financial data (CoinDesk Indices is the benchmark for billions in digital assets ). Kevin joined CoinDesk as CEO shortly after DCG, an investment firm, purchased a small blog about bitcoin from its founder. At that time CoinDesk had 10 employees and $1.5M of revenues. Kevin built and scaled one of the most influential companies and brands in the entire industry and the company grew to $50M in revenues with over 100 employees through organic growth and acquisitions. He led the M&A process to sell CoinDesk and completed the integration with The Bullish Group.

New York, Ny, Us

Formerly Geller & Co. that provided the finance function to Bloomberg LP. My responsibilities included financial oversight of Bloomberg global digital media and TV operations in NY, London and Hong Kong.

New York, Ny, Us

Provided advisory consulting services to top quartile private equity fund investing in the media and information services sector.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the M&A process to sell The Deal.com to The Street.com and subsequently led the post merger integration. Evaluated M&A opportunities for The Street and sourced and closed a follow-on acquisition.

New York, New York, Us

Kevin was the founding CEO of The Deal.com, which is a news, event and data company for the global M&A community formed by Wall Street legend Bruce Wasserstein’s investment firm. He built a stellar reputation for daily news, data services, and signature annual events and grew the revenues from a standing start $0 to $15M. Kevin led the M&A process to sell the company to TheStreet.com,completed the post merger integration deal and sourced and closed a follow-on data & news acquisition. TheDeal has since been sold to Euromoney.

New York, Us

Led special projects for the CEO covering new business start-ups, strategic investments, M&A evaluation

New York, Ny, Us

Assisted with numerous financial due diligence efforts and provided financial modeling advice to senior management with respect to both M&A activities and strategic investments in various digital start-ups.

Chicago, Il, Us

Peterson (acquired by Navigant Guidehouse), is a specialized consulting firm providing litigation, financial, restructuring, strategic and operational consulting services. As an executive consultant in the technology/consumer products industry group, led project teams to analyze lost profits from intellectual property infringements. Most notably, assisted Stac Electronics win a $120M judgement against Microsoft.

Mba, General Management

Bs, Finance