Jon matonis biography
- Jon Matonis was Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation until December 2014 and served as a board director for the group from its 2012 inception.
- Jon Matonis Bio. Jon Matonis is a Founding Director of the Bitcoin Foundation and his career has included senior influential posts at VISA International.
- Jon Matonis is an e-money researcher and crypto economist focused on expanding the circulation of non-political digital currencies.
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Jon Matonis was Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation until December 2014 and served as a board director for the group from its 2012 inception to the time he assumed the executive director position in 2013. He is considered the foremost authority on virtual currencies, private currencies, and burgeoning e-money instruments such as Bitcoin, Gridcoin, social game credits, and stored value.
Matonis is a board advisor to start-ups in: bitcoin, cryptography, gaming, mobile and prepaid. His career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA where he was Chief Forex Trader, VeriSign, and Hushmail where he was CEO.
Matonis also provides e-money consulting services to companies on alternative currency programs, bitcoin processing, compliance, jurisdiction selection, monetisation strategies, risk management, and virtual currency platforms.
His work on digital cash has been published by Dow Jones and the London School of Economics. Matonis is also a columnist at Forbes Magazine, American Banker, and CoinDesk. He is Editor of The Monetary Future, a leading economics
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Jon Matonis
Cerebra, Inc.
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Cerebra, Inc. develops content integration solutions. It provides enterprise-ready, semantic technologies through its offices in Menlo Park, Boston, Washington DC and Manchester, UK. Its products provide an enterprise integration and business application environment on an SOA-ready platform based on the W3C's OWL, RDF, XML, SOAP and WSDL standards. Cerebra was founded in January, 2001 by Michael Lees & Ian Horrocks and is located in Carlsbad, CA
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The Bitcoin Foundation, Inc.
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The Bitcoin Foundation, Inc. is based in Washington, DC. Join the world's oldest bitcoin advocacy organization. The company was founded by Jon Matonis, Peter J. Vessenes.
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Commerceblock Ltd.
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Commerceblock Ltd. provides blockchain based infrastructure enables the distribu
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Jon Matonis
He started his career at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Chicago, where he worked as a senior derivatives and money market trader from 1986 to 1989. He managed interest rate risk and designed speculative positions in the derivatives market, responsible for trading a $1.5 billion book in money market positions and an $85 million proprietary book in futures and options. Additionally, he led a team that traded in the over-the-counter Fed Funds and Eurodollar markets for daily marked-to-market settlement with the Federal Reserve Bank.
From 1990 to 1995, Matonis worked for Visa International, where he served as the Chief Foreign Exchange Dealer and managed the trading division for 155 different currencies and over $30 billion in annual turnover. He negotiated with central banks, hedged overall financial exposure, and generated daily trading profits on VISA's worldwide clearing volume. He also developed profitability models for member banks and led the VISA regional offices on international cost studies for restructuring bank-to-bank interchange rates. In 1993, he
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