Executive Education / Stanford Graduate School Of Business

School Of Hard Knocks

Founder @ Award Pool (NFT Amazements)

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Engaging The Digital Generation. Award Pool makes it easy to engage the digital generation with gamified play, digital assets and blockchain NFT rewards.

Future customers are online right now interacting and sharing their interests through communities and social circles inside the games they play and websites they love. Getting customers engaged through social media challenges will keep the excitement for your brand alive and give you a new way to move forward.

AwardPool

Co-Founder & CEO

Entrepreneur Media

Contributing Writer

I mentor on the subject of Growth and bootstrapping.

Founder Institute

Mentor (Volunteer)

The personal investment holding company of Reuven Cohen. The firm administers various philanthropic, angel investments and an extensive portfolio of investment properties.

Alystic Holdings LLC

Managing Director

The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). Backers include Cisco Systems, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Khosla Ventures, SAP, and US Venture Partners. Funds that have invested in Alchemist companies include Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, Redpoint, and True Ventures.

Alchemist Accelerator

Mentor & Advisor

Reuven is a mentor for the Techstars. The startups he has mentored have collectively raised more than $500,000,000 and several billion in valuations.

As a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, TechStars invests in technology oriented companies, typically these are web-based or other software companies.  TechStars looking for companies that can have national or worldwide impact.

Techstars

Mentor

Global head of technical programming and business development for Microsoft Reactor (Cloud+Ai)

Microsoft

Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Reactor

fraction/al works with clients looking to fractionalize high-value, illiquid, real-world assets including sports ownership, real estate, corporate equities, debt, commodities and other financial derivatives using blockchain technology.

fraction/al

Co-Founder

A focus on emerging technology and Artificial Intelligence.

HuffPost

Contributor

Advising the team at ComputenNext on various cloud marketplace and finance centric compute strategies.

ComputeNext

Strategic Advisor

Aporeto is a venture backed, cloud-native security startup based in the Silicon Valley. It is funded by several top-tier investors and is currently operating in stealth with a planned launch late 2016. I focus on strategic growth strategies (data-centric marketing, fundraising, and sales execution), among other things.

Aporeto

Vice President

The focus of Data Graphica is to explore the limitless potential of data in its visual form. From emerging technologies to data scientists to designers shaping the way we understand information, Data Graphica will showcase the very best in the world of data science and information design.

Network World

Contributing Author, Data Graphica

Writes about the future enterprise technology and cloud computing trends.

InformationWeek

Columnist

Leads Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) advocacy efforts with a particular focus on increasing the volume, reach and influence of Citrix' extensive portfolio of technology solutions.

More specifically, I sit within the Citrix Labs and CTO Office. My responsibilities include;

-  Leading strategic global influence activities including lobbying, advocacy and evangelist programs.
-  Research & development of emerging technologies.
-  Leads the Citrix Labs Design Center of Excellence (Design Thinking / Lean Startup)
-  Co-author Citrix annual Technology Landscape document which defines potential future technology opportunities for the company, 5 or more years into the future.
-  Consult on strategic M&A and early stage investment opportunities.
-  Mentor senior Citrix management/execs, CTO's as well as strategic investment portfolio companies on influence centric activities.
-  Opportunity generator. Rain maker.

Citrix

Chief Technology Advocate

The Citrix Startup Accelerator invests in enterprise startups creating the next generation of cloud infrastructure services, mobile enterprise solutions, and collaboration technologies.

- Merged with Enomaly Inc in 2012. Purchased by EMC May 2015 for $1.2 Billion.)

- Market Development
- Open Source Engagement.
- Innovation Enablement.
- Entrepreneur in residence.

Virtustream

Senior Vice President Ecosystem & Community

Author of "The Digital Provocateur" column for Forbes magazine. The column focused on emerging business technology trends. At it's peak the column had over 2 million readers / year.

Forbes

Contributing Author

Enomaly China is a joint venture formed in 2011 and funded by the People's Republic of China and the Infinity Private Equity Fund, the world’s leading cross-border, Chinese focused management group with 10 billion RMB under management through 17 funds in China.

The company focuses on providing cloud computing products and service to the Chinese market.

- Enomaly Inc was acquired by Virtustream in 2012)

Enomaly China

Founder

Connect Canadian companies with foreign business opportunities.

Global Affairs Canada  -  Affaires mondiales Canada

IT Champion / Liaison (appointed)

Strategic advisor, helped draft NIST Cloud Computing definition and GSA Cloud First Policy

U.S. Federal CIO Council

Industry Advisor

In 2008 Sun Microsystems created a Cloud Computing Strategic Advisory Council focused on  establishing a select team of industry leaders to help Sun determine the future direction of cloud computing. The focus of the group of industry influencers included consulting future direction of Sun's cloud computing offerings.

Sun Microsystems

Strategic Advisor, Cloud Computing Strategic Advisory Council

Advised young entrepreneurs with great ideas get their businesses off the ground.

Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)

Mentor 	(Volunteer)

Board of Governors Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC),

ITAC - Information Technology Association of Canada

Board of Governors (Volunteer)

Helped guide the direction of Technology for the college.

Seneca@York University

Board of Advisors (Volunteer)

In the earliest days of cloud computing, <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> assembled a team of industry leaders to advise the company on its nascent cloud platforms. Reuven was a member of the very first Amazon Web Services advisory board.

Amazon Web Services

Strategic Advisor (AWS Advisory Board)

Enomaly Inc.

Founder & CEO

- Enomaly merged with Virtustream Inc in February 2012. Virtustream was later acquired by EMC for $1.2 Billion, May 2015)

Originally formed as an "Open Source Consultancy" the company focused on building scalable internet centric infrastructure for some of the largest companies on the planet.

Most notable for its work in pioneering "Cloud Computing," it was among the first to both build and coin the term "infrastructure as a service" with the release of the Enomaly Elastic Computing platform (ECP/ enomalism) in 2005, a full year previous to Amazon's launch of EC2.

Customers included;
Deutsche Bank, Oppenheimer Funds, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, NBC/Universal, MGM/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, ADP, Business Objects / SAP, Intel, France Telecom / Orange,  Omnicom Group/TribalDDB, United States Government, Canadian Government, Korea Telecom / KT Corporation, NTT, China Telecom, Bridgestone, The Planet / SoftLayer, IBM, Cisco, PayPal, Bank of China, Best Buy, <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> (AWS), Rackspace, AT&T, Ashoka / Changemakers, and many others

Reuven started the company and drove the direction and vision for almost 9 years.

Founder & CTO

Based in NYC, the company focused on building video streaming and rich media portals for some of the earliest web media companies during the first dotcom bubble.

Customers included;
MTV/SonicNet - Among the first music streaming services.
Healthology - An early producer and distributor of physician-generated medical and health information on the Internet.
iClips - A provider of Web-based streaming video messaging services.
Napster - A pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service.
eSpeed Inc., a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, is the leader in developing and deploying electronic marketplaces and related trading technology.

Graphic Substance

Worked as a Junior Art Director & Graphic Designer with a focus on "New Media" for a medium size advertising and brand agency.

The CCL Group (Colour)

Junior Art Director & Graphic Designer

While in middle school and high school, I worked as a freelance web developer and designer for some of the earlier web properties.

Projects included;

AOL - In February 1991, AOL for DOS was launched using a GeoWorks interface followed a year later by AOL for Windows.
1991 - Sierra Online  ImagiNation Network (INN), aka The Sierra Network (TSN) and CyberPark, was an early online multiplayer gaming system.
1996 - <a href="http://Bolt.com">Bolt.com</a>, It was among the first social networking sites to appear on the Internet.