David Allen Cohen

David A. Cohen is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in the Decentralized Software industry and recently in the Digital Currency and Blockchain industry. David was the founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered the “Grid Edge” unlocking multi-billion dollar software markets and creating the industries first artificial intelligence-based software platform - GridAgents™ David is a former member of the IOTA Foundation during the IOTA Token Cryptocurrency launch which broke all previous records reaching a $1.7 Billion market cap on the very first day of trading, as reported by Forbes Magazine on June 13, 2017. He is on the Advisory boards of the following Blockchain/Crypto ventures: Hashgraph - Wireline.io - MingoCoin - WePower - FarmaTrust - Patron - Money Token - A+ Payments - SmartMesh - Banyan Infrastructure David was named as one of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers in Smart Systems by Greentech Media and is a founding member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council. After selling Infotility to Pacific Controls in Dubai in 2011, as COO, he helped launch the world’s first machine-to-machine (M2M) smart infrastructure software platform, Galaxy™. As co-founder of Silicon Energy he pioneered the world’s first Virtual Power Plant based on Silicon Energy’s EEM Suite™ which was sold to Itron (NASDAQ: ITRI). As Chief Strategy Officer for the Car Charging Group, he assisted in the M&A of Ecotality and the Blink NetworkTM which became the largest electric vehicle charging services company in the world. As co-founder and COO of ZipPower, he was the creator of a social media platform to engage energy prosumers and enable peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading. David is a thought leader and has spoken at many venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, Consensus, Blockchain 100X and Singularity University. He is an expert on Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Edge Computing.