Gary started his career as a developer and enterprise solutions architect at Gilead Sciences’ pharmaceutical manufacturing where he managed, designed, and implemented global solutions within the areas regulatory compliance, manufacturing production, quality management, finance, r&d, clinical trials, laboratory information, workforce training, and electronic records.
Gary is also a serial entrepreneur with experiences as a founder in early technology startups having successes in both venture fundraising and acquisitions (- commercial safety lighting and manufacturing company, Gambassa - Learning Management System, Current - collaboration operating system). He has frontline experience within the realms of blockchain and fintech having served as an Entrepreneur in Residence in the capacities of CTO/CSO at Consensys’ Omega One, a teaming up of financial asset experts from Bridgewater, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and NYSE ,among others to build the first blockchain-based institutional-grade digital asset trading platform, the first exchange to receive licensing under the Bermuda Digital Asset Business Act.
Gary developed and successfully deployed other large scale distributed organizational management and collaboration solutions within the education and aviation spaces and brings these experiences to bear in Jump Digital Assets Inc.
Paul Novoa has over 20 years of digital product design, branding, and marketing experience working with startups and fortune 500 companies.
Early founder of the interactive industry and first generation of “Dotcom babies”, Paul Novoa launched the foundation of such sites as Pets.com in 1998. Paul then took his Design & Development skills to the Entertainment Industry joining Dream Theater in the dawn of the Convergence era. There, among his award winning interactive projects includes Disney's "The Sixth Sense", Jim Henson's "Muppet World", Sony Pictures "Dawson's Creek" as well as award winning show spots for FX Network.
In 2004 Paul joined Omnicom's LA DDB to help form their first interactive department, Tribal DDB. Paul Art Directed projects for clients including Wells Fargo, Epson, Paramount, Southern California Edison and an award winning Superbowl XXXIX campaign for Ameriquest that covered print, broadcast, and online media. Paul then continued his award winning work at AvatarLabs, producing digital campaigns for premier entertainment studios such as Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, and Dreamworks.
In 2006 Paul founded Novoa Media Inc, a technology agency offering full creative services for mobile design, development, digital marketing, and branding for major clients such as JPMorgan Chase Bank, Union Bank, Disney, Mattel, MTV, Nickelodeon, GoPro, Beachbody (P90X), Guitar Center, Panasonic, as well as an online U.S. Presidential Campaign. Paul is now focused on bringing new products, services and capabilities to the masses through branding and designing of captivating, valuable and user-friendly based platforms and ecosystems. Paul’s work has been featured by Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNET, and more.
Kevin Berson is a Merger and Acquisition Advisor and Strategy Consultant helping lower-middle market business owners (businesses generating $2M-$100M in annual revenue) navigate the process of selling their businesses for maximum value. As an M&A Advisor, Kevin provides an end-to-end service, beginning with an opinion of value, then creating a customized marketing strategy, finding and managing buyers through a controlled auction process, facilitating diligence, purchase agreement negotiation, through to the post-closing transition.
Prior to Kevin’s M&A focus, Kevin spent 18 years with Technicolor and Arthur Andersen. At Technicolor, Kevin served in senior roles across IT, Business Development and M&A, where he helped close several acquisitions collectively valued over $500M. At Arthur Andersen, Kevin led strategy and technology engagements for middle-market manufacturing and entertainment firms. Kevin received his BA from UCLA and his MBA from the Marshall School at USC.
Howard Hopkins is highly skilled, driven, energetic, organized, results oriented professional specializing in sales management, negotiation, compensation and consulting. Howard is a business investor who has and operated multiple franchises. For the past dozen years he’s represented various lighting manufacturers responsible for all channel sales. Howard has managed an extensive North American rep network consisting of over 500+ inside and outside sales personnel within the architectural/commercial lighting industry. Via extensive and strategic business travel, Howard has amassed an extensive professional network and conducted in-person product specification training and conducted hundreds of solutions based sales calls to lighting designers, architects, engineers, interior designers, electrical distributors, general contractors, electrical contractors, facility managers, principals, owners and various C-suite clientele in an effort drive substantial market share and deliver substantial margin based results.
For over 15 years Atma has been dedicated to improving the way we build and invest in startups. Atma developed an entirely new ecosystem accomplish this. It is called Startup Ecology. It combines behavioralism, machine learning, and tokenomics. This new framework is both human-centric and dialectical. To do re-invent how startups are built Atma combines mastery in three fields: Digital Marketing, Product Management, and Psychological Profiling. Atma blends all of these to create a discovery-based approach to growing startups. Instead of plans and roadmaps, Atma manages a process of continual adaptation with marketing support. Atma works to help ensure that startups get the traction they need to succeed.