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Mikhail Golomb

Founder and CEO Mikhail Golomb

Address: San Francisco, CA
Website: http://www.mikhailgolomb.com/
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A hands-on company builder, Michael's background as an entrepreneurial CFO with three exits behind him, is the culmination of twenty years of senior management experience across a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise has been successfully applied across verticals ranging from startups to large public corporations including Blockchain, manufacturing, digital health & medical devices, consumer electronics & hardware, software/SaaS, and real estate.   


Currently, Michael is the Founder and CEO of FanVestor. FanVestor is an innovative data-driven investing platform, which enables consumers, both accredited and non-accredited, to invest into the careers and projects of talent, musicians and athletes. 


In addition to Michael's global experience in raising equity though variety of public and private equity/debt instruments, as well as experience in handling complex M&A transactions, Michael also brought exceptional knowhow of Blockchain technology to DASAN Zhone Solutions. 


Earlier in 2017, (prior to joining DASAN) together with the other Blockchain industry veterans, Michael co-founded the ICO Governance Foundation, a non-profit decentralized global organization with a protocol-based global community mission that performs a self-regulatory function for ICOs in decentralized capital markets.    


In Oct 2016, Michael founded EdenCoin - a global cryptocurrency quantitative market-maker start-up with offices in San Francisco and New York: a proprietary liquidity aggregation platform to consolidate trading volume and data from major cryptocurrency market sources to run algorithmic market-making and liquidity provisioning, as well as other, quantitative strategies. 


From June 2015 to May 2017, while CFO at Breathometer, a hyper-growth digital health and medical device company, he helped take that company from pre-revenue to shipping in the FDA regulated space, forming OEM partnership with Philips, raising capital from venture capital firms and global strategic investors, as well as successfully achieving the ISO13485:2003 Certification milestone.  


Prior to Breathometer, Michael was the first employee (CFO, Board Member, and Head of SF Office) at BitFury, and helped build the market leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem, taking it from zero to over $500M valuation and from 3 to over 120 employees in 7 countries between December 2013 through April 2015.  


Other notable roles include:


"Co-Founder and Co-President at Mayak RE, where he led the formation of JV with Morgan Stanley and MCP Private Equity Fund in Europe. 

"CFO of Sistema Hals, he directed a highly successful London/LSE IPO with market capitalization at $2.7B.  

"Head of Compliance / Sr. Finance Manager at Trimble, he effectively implemented global Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, participated in private debt placement, as well as acquired/integrated several international technology companies. 

Michael received MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013, his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000, and his B.A. with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in 1996.  He is also a CPA (inactive) in California.

Experience

FanVestor

Founder and CEO

2019 - Present

FanVestor - an innovative data-driven investing platform, which enables consumers, both accredited and non-accredited, to invest into the careers and projects of talent, musicians and athletes.  

Our fan engagement marketplace turns fans into investors by offering qualified retail investors participation in institutional-quality funding opportunities. FanVestor is poised to become a viable alternative source of financing without intermediates for talent, musicians, athletes, and entertainment entities. Through these transactions and those which evolve from the platform, there is a tremendous “Big Data” play here, as celebrities, through gaining capital and controlling their own

DASAN Zhone Solutions

Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Treasurer, and Secretary

2017 - 2019

DASAN Zhone Solutions - (NASDAQ: DZSI) is a global leader in network access solutions for service provider and enterprise networks. The company provides a wide array of reliable, cost-effective networking technologies—including broadband access, Ethernet switching, Passive Optical LAN and software-defined networks—to a diverse customer base that includes more than 1,000 of the world’s most innovative customers in more than 50 countries worldwide.

The demand for digital data is skyrocketing, and today’s carriers and enterprise companies need a cost-effective and reliable solution that supports fixed broadband and mobile networks. To meet this growing need, DZS offers a diverse product portfolio of networking technologies that keep our customers’ end-users connected – at home, at work and on the go – with video, voice, data or whatever digital content the future will bring. Unlike companies that provide static, off-the-shelf solutions, DZS works hands-on with customers to implement and support systems that fit their needs today and can easily expand and adapt to the demands of the future.

Exploring ways of implementing Blockchain and AI technologies in our business.

DZS is ISO 9001:2015 certified in the manufacture and service of telecommunications equipment.

http://dasanzhone.com/

Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business

MS

Management, emphasis on Organization Behavior and Entrepreneurship

Occidental College

BA, Double Major in Diplomacy & World Affairs and Economics

1992 – 1996

Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business

MBA, Finance

1999 – 2000