Bruce Pon is Founder and CEO at BigchainDB as well as Founder and Board Member at Ocean Protocol. He has helped to build a dozen bank and industry startups in Europe, Asia and the Americas while working with leading companies such as Mercedes-Benz, VW, Mitsubishi Corporation, Accenture and DuPont. Prior to starting BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol, he founded ascribe.io and was a co-founder / Partner of Avantalion International Consulting in Germany. Bruce is an advisor and investor and has an Advanced Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan and a B.Sc in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.