Shidan Gouran
Shidan Gouran is President and CEO at Global Blockchain, and vision behind the Laser Protocol, Ethereum-based blockchain that will use proof-of-stake to allow all blockchains to work together as one big network.
Gouran has been the President of Global Blockchain Technologies Corp. since October 2017 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Gouran is a Serial Entrepreneur, who founded Nuovotel, one of the first and largest wholesale VoIP service providers of its time, Jazinga, developers of an award winning unified communications system and Home Jinni, developers of the first Android based Smart TV platform. He is an Investor in and Advisor to a number of financial technology and blockchain startups. He mined his first Bitcoin in early 2010 and has been involved with Cryptocurrencies ever since. Gouran studied Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Western Ontario
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