Bill Zielke

Chief Marketing Officer at BitPay

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Bill Zielke is Chief Marketing Officer at BitPay

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BitPay

Chief Marketing Officer

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Esteban Ordano

Esteban Ordano is the founder of Decentraland and currently serves as a consultant for the project. Previously, he co-founded Zeppelin Solutions and created Streamium, the first app to implement payment channels, a technology crucial for scaling blockchain payments. As a former software engineer at BitPay, he co-created the leading Bitcoin infrastructure library, known as Bitcore. He was also part of the teams behind Copay (a bitcoin wallet), Insight (a bitcoin blockchain API), and Poet (a blockchain-based publication tool).

Stephen Pair

Stephen Pair is the co-founder and CEO of Bitpay, a Bitcoin merchant service. Prior to founding Bitpay, he was a senior development engineer at IBM. Widely regarded as an expert in cryptography, Pair also holds two patents related to streaming analytics.

Tony Gallippi

Anthony Gallippi co-founded BitPay in 2011 after recognizing that businesses could not easily accept bitcoin payments. BitPay was the first bitcoin payment processor and was founded to bridge the gap between consumers and merchants. Gallippi served as CEO until May 2014, when he became Executive Chairman. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations including sales, marketing and customer service he is responsible for BitPay’s external affairs. He dedicates his time to building partnerships and broadening business relationships, liaising with investors, expanding BitPay’s international presence, and ultimately ensuring BitPay is contributing to the overall bitcoin ecosystem. Gallippi has fifteen years of experience in sales and marketing within the Robotics industry. Before co-founding BitPay, Gallippi was District Sales Manager at Aerotech, and he served as Regional Sales Manager at Industrial Devices Corporation. Gallippi has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.