Rinat graduated from a village school in 1999 and enrolled at the Russian Federation's Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Air Defense. Rinat served for ten years, five of which were spent on the Subarctic Kola Peninsula.
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The fact of the matter is that an officer's salary in 2009 had also been 24,500 rubles. His wife, son, and he lived paycheck to paycheck, constantly in debt, as a family of three.

The most interesting thing happened in 2009, when he left the army and launched his first business. It was a minor subset of consumer electronics (3.5 square meters).

​Rinat couldn't really fit in there. In 2010, I opened the second section, which was 30 square meters in size. In 2012, he made the decision to sell these two sections and relocate to Moscow. In 2013, Rinat founded a company that employed 150 people. They had been in charge of apartment renovation services. More than 1 million square meters of work were completed in 2015.

Mitch Liu background has always been at the intersection of the latest media and emerging technologies like blockchain, starting with my undergrad in engineering at MIT where he did his thesis in interactive storytelling at the MIT Media Lab.

​After graduate school at Stanford, he founded several companies that were early in mobile advertising and mobile gaming — TapJoy in 2007 which remains doing well today, and Gameview Studios, a pioneer of mobile resource management games in 2010, which they sold to DeNA gaming company in Japan.

Mitch Liu founded Theta Labs in 2016 with there CTO Jieyi Long focused on video streaming technology, specifically in VR and esports. Theta Network was created as how of solving our own problems in delivering 4k, 8k, and VR video efficiently throughout the planet.

Zac Cheah is the founder and CEO of Indonesian multi-cryptocurrency point-of-sale (POS) solutions provider Pundi X.

Zac Cheah is an Erasmus Mundus scholar with a master’s in computing from Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a master’s in Security and Mobile Computing from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

After his master’s graduation in 2008, Zac joined Opera Software AS in Norway and Opera software in China. He left Opera in 2013 to co-found Cross platform HTML5 games developer Wozlla in China.

​In 2016, Zac moved to Indonesia and co-founded payments app Pundi. He became the CEO of Pundi X in September 2017.

Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies which shape the social dynamics of our emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
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Arthur initially applied his Artificial Intelligence experience at GM, Chrysler, and Hughes, but later shifted his focus to building intelligence into social architectures rather than computers. He established student-run schools and award-winning employee-run businesses, and discovered that the engines that power these organizations rely on specific patterns of incentives and feedback. He unlocks the secrets of people's Social DNA and the critical role of currencies in programming these patterns.

​Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.