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Rivetz - Building Digital 2.0 with Provable Cybersecurity

Transform from castle security to digital relationships powered by blockchain, trusted computing, and cryptographic proof

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With over a decade of Product Management expertise spanning diverse industries, my primary focus has been on driving innovation in Crypto and Insurance, complemented by a secondary emphasis on AI/ML and Search domains. Throughout my career, I've successfully led 0 to 1 product initiatives, guiding them from conceptualization and vision to strategic planning and go-to-market execution. My track record includes delivering impactful B2C and B2B experiences at scale. 🔘 I excel in building products from scratch, steering strategy, roadmap, and execution within an agile framework. My experience extends to managing global and co-located teams, resulting in the delivery of experiences for B2C customers. 🔘 My expertise covers B2C, B2D, and B2B realms across various platforms, including desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android. Having launched three mobile applications, I am adept at establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) tailored to nascent products. 🔘 In the crypto space, I played a pivotal role in launching Forbes Digital Assets and overseeing the successful ICO at Rivetz Intl. This hands-on experience with cryptocurrencies extends to managing NFT collections. 🔘 Whether building teams from the ground up or aiding their transition from startup to midsize organizations, I bring a wealth of experience in navigating diverse product organizational structures. I am passionate about helping teams mature and thrive. 🔘 My ability to foster strong relationships extends both internally and externally. Internally, I collaborate seamlessly with engineering, design, QA, data science, marketing, and senior leadership. Externally, I've cultivated valuable connections with senior stakeholders and industry partners to improve our product and sales closing rate. 🔘 As a dedicated product management nerd, I thrive on continuous improvement, constantly iterating not only on products but also on processes to align them with the unique needs and culture of each team and organization. This allows me to flex across many industries because in my experience my product knowledge has applied well across all the industries I have worked in!

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Steven Sprague is the Founder of Rootz Corp. a new company built on the foundations of his work as the CEO of Rivetz Corp., a director at Wave Systems Corp. and one of the principle industry evangelists for the application of trusted computing technology. Steven served as President and CEO for 14 years at Wave before transitioning to the board of directors. A popular speaker on cybersecurity and trusted computing, Steven has a strong technical foundation in the principles, capabilities and business models of incorporating trusted hardware into everyday computing, and is skilled at translating these concepts into layman’s terms. Steven has a passion for making trusted computing’s best-in-class security solutions accessible, understandable and easy-to-use, and has helped some of the world’s largest enterprises secure their data and networks. He was influential in the development and application of the self-encrypting drive industry standards, supporting the technology early and leading the commercialization of drive management and recovery capabilities. During his tenure at Wave, over 130 million copies of licensed software were delivered globally through multiple PC OEM partners, and the US and European governments took clear strides to standardize on the use of trusted computing. Steven holds a number of patents and continues to push for market adoption of industry standards-based security. Steven graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He enjoys farming in Western Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, and a few too many horses.

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Experienced software developer with skills in all areas of the software development life cycle. Team player or hands-on team leader who enjoys helping others succeed. Problem solver with track record of delivering innovative approaches to product design and system architecture. • Collaborator who has worked successfully with customers and marketing teams to define and develop products • Manager of multiple teams, projects, and customers • Agile Software Development enthusiast and practitioner • Cryptocurrency developer: Bitcoin, Omni Layer, and Counterparty • Java Enterprise (JEE) developer: Servlets, Spring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, JDBC, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, Maven, Ant, JUnit, Spock, Java Web Start, and others • iOS Developer: Cocoa/Objective-C and learning Swift • Open source enthusiast and contributor • Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X systems administrator and scripter • Video and Multimedia expert: QuickTime, MPEG-4, Windows Media, etc. • “Web 2.0” developer: Blogs, Videoblogs, Wikis, RSS/Atom, REST, AJAX, Web services, etc. • Network and operating systems programmer: device drivers, real-time systems, and network protocol stacks • Entrepreneur with knowledge in diverse areas such as: sales, business development, licensing, contracts, finance, etc. Specialties: Software development, consulting, sales and product management in an entreprenerial environment.