November 28, 2017 ‐ The EmberCoin project is pleased to announce an organizational restructuring and additional hires as steady progress is made towards exciting announcements in the coming months. The unanimous decision sees the executive C‐Suite, project management and support roles nearly filled out, and puts Ember in a position to operate at a pace both the community and team will appreciate. Spearheaded by a consensus among Ember’s development and management teams, the reorganizing of existing members as well as additions of new ones comes on the heels of a pair of company‐wide meetings last week.
Bringing together a wide range of talents, the new team draws upon members with extensive technological, financial, and business acumen which will carry Ember through to the next technological threshold, securing its place among the top projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world.
The Executive C‐Suite sees Lead Developer and original adopter Andrew Coleman moved to the position of Chief Technology Officer, with Josh Poole brought in to take the helm of Chief Executive Officer. Coordinating all operations will be Jordan Alvarez as the Chief Operations Officer, with financials handled by Desmond Tatilian as Chief Financial Officer. Heading IT related responsibilities will be Bryce Young as Chief Information Officer, and administrative duties will be handled by Jacob Riggi in the position of Chief Administrative Officer. Marketing will be led by Marcus Lakos as Chief Marketing Officer, Project and Support Lead will be community mainstay JT42, and tanda will continue to manage all support roles. The entire staff list will be available on the EmberCoin website.
“I’m personally rather excited by the future that awaits us. In the newcomers, as well as established members, we have found the right team together to really discover where it is we’re heading,” said Coleman of the latest developments. Poole additionally looks forward to boost in productivity the influx of new talent will bring to the project. “I am really looking forward to working alongside these fine people to grow and expand EmberCoin. I have been involved with many projects, and I can confidently say that this particular group has what it takes to make sure that Ember reaches it’s potential. Stay tuned, everyone… We have big things in store for you.”
Coming from the system administrator and contract software development world, Coleman has developed projects for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as DARPA. With involvement in both the education and defense sectors respectively, where timeliness, security and accuracy are essential to any release, his leadership and organizational skills in software development set the tone for the project. Stepping into the role of CEO is no new task for Poole, as he draws his executive experience from the multiple, concurrent businesses he runs, spanning industries from transportation to investing to marketing. His strengths as a self‐made entrepreneur include management, marketing, sales and workflow optimization.
Daily operational management will come from Alvarez, where his experience in running the day‐to‐day marketing, sales and business management duties for several firms he runs alongside Poole, will ensure a smooth workflow among these related departments within Ember. Financial responsibilities will be handled by Tatilian, an economist by trade, as he currently serves the role of CFO for several companies handling economic analysis, financial organization and budgetary management.
Given the future ambitions of Ember, the systems architecture and fintech software development background of Young will broaden the overall security of the project, in addition to his history as CTO of several companies where he helped to create complex task‐management systems. Considered a cryptographic evangelist, Riggi brings experience from the health & human services industry to Ember, where his enthusiasm for system security and individual privacy are of the utmost importance for the future endeavors of this project.
Lakos, a marketing coordinator for a leading global Fortune 500 company, will head the marketing department. It is his domestic and international understanding in coordinating announcements, promotions and campaigns across hundreds of locations in multiple time zones that will serve to give Ember’s outreach efforts the commitment, precision and coordination the community deserves.
EmberCoin began as a Proof‐of‐Stake coin rescued from hyper‐inflation by Andrew Coleman early in 2017. Coleman, seeing potential in the abandoned coin, dedicated time and effort into not only correcting the hyper‐inflation inherent in the code but giving it purpose. Approached by interested investors and community members later in the year, Coleman saw the resources, ideas and potential their ideas brought to the table and welcomed them into the fold. The project has since transformed from not only reviving the coin, but turning it into both an enterprise and consumer level solution for unmet demands in today’s ever‐changing global landscape.
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