Tom Howard
Partner at Taureon Capital
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2017 - Current
Started Taureon angel group to co-invest with likeminded angel investors in the crypto ecosystem.
Taureon is an investment manager and consulting firm in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem.
Head Of Business Development
2020 - 2022
PowerTrade crypto options and derivatives exchange. Achievements ・Architected the first DAO based exchange liquidation reserve ・Raised from top notch backers (several greats undisclosed), to the tune of ~$12m ・Negotiated partnerships with trading industry power houses worth 9 figures in future business
Co-Founder
2019 - 2020
DeFi based payments e-wallet using DAI, state channels, and a smart contract wallet architecture enabling gasless transactions, social recovery and money links.
Borderless access to money and wealth, with decentralized personal finance tools.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2017
HackerFleet provided on demand and scalable software product development teams from a global talent pool. Bought out by a customer.
Product Manager
2016 - 2017
Backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, Gigster built a team intelligence engine for the remote first gig economy. As product manager at SF based Gigster, I was the primary client facing PM in Asia, particularly in Singapore.
Gigster is the first team intelligence engine, enabling software development teams to achieve 30% higher efficiency.
Raised $32,620,000.00 from Adam D’Angelo, Andreessen Horowitz, Marc Benioff, Redpoint, Y Combinator, Michael Jordan and Sound Ventures.
Head of Growth
2015 - 2016
Venture studio focused on rapid prototyping on the Future of Work. Founded by Tom Chi, GoogleX co-founder and Google Glass inventor. Led product marketing and sales teams.
CEO
2011 - 2015
Marketing and product development agency for clients in Washington DC area, NYC, and San Francisco
Growth Hacker
2011 - 2012
Worked on Marketing Strategy and Execution including Social Media Marketing, On and Off Site SEO, and various Web Development tasks.