Location:

Chicago, IL - as of June 2024

Current Work:

I am President of Honest Pirate Advisory, providing consulting, coaching, and capital to early-stage entrepreneurs, applications, and open protocols.

We consult and advise early-stage and mature projects and companies in the Web3 space, with a focus on digital ownership and identity, decentralized finance, privacy, and open marketplaces.

I am also CEO / co-founder of Stashh, a social marketplace for digital collectibles.

Prior Work and Projects:

  • Founder of Secret Foundation, an organization dedicated to the growth and adoption of privacy-first decentralized technologies [2020-2023]

  • Head of Growth and Marketing at Enigma MPC, a company building privacy-first computing networks in the blockchain space [2017-2020]

  • Revenue and Growth Data Scientist for Snapchat [2016-2017]

  • Multiple internships: Content Valuation for Riot Games (January 2016), Data Science for Spotify (Summer 2015), Community Analytics and Growth for Hubspot (January 2015)

  • MIT Sloan MBA [2014-2016]

  • Options trader and marketmaker at Optiver US [2009-2013]

  • Emergent Leadership in Online Peer Communities (independent study at MIT Sloan) [2016]

  • Blockchain Technology and Applications in the Music Industry (report for Future Commerce at MIT Media Lab) [2015]

  • Growth and analytics lead for FOLD, MIT Media Lab startup (www.fold.cm) [2015]

  • Social Sharing and Networked Communities within Content Verticals (self study)

and more.

 

Contact me @torbair almost everywhere.