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Stephen McKeon
Managing Partner at Collab+Currency
Stephen McKeon is the Managing Partner at Collab+Currency, a web3-focused early-stage investment firm, a position he has held since September 2018.1 He is based in Eugene, Oregon, United States. McKeon has a diverse background in academia and finance:
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor of Finance (on leave) at the University of Oregon since August 20111
- Co-founder of Skyworks Development Group (May 2017 - March 2021)1
- Chief Strategy Advisor at Security Token Academy (April 2018 - November 2019)1
- Visiting Associate at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School (March 2019 - July 2019)1
Education
- Ph.D. from Purdue University Daniels School of Business (2007-2011)1
- M.S. from Purdue University (2007-2009)1
- B.S. from University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business (1997-2000)1
McKeon has extensive experience in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, having served as an advisor for Harbor, Inc. and co-founded Coast to Crest Fund. His LinkedIn username is indeed smckeon.1
Highlights
In August 2017 I published Traditional Asset Tokenization. I knew I needed to be a little more proactive to get people to read it, so I started searching twitter for someone, anyone, who was thinking about similar topics.
I became worried that the academic publishing process was going to take too long, so I opened an account on Medium and just started typing. The only problem was that I had no followers, so no one read my posts. Like, literally almost no one - I think I had 9 reads on my first article after a month.
