Chia Appoints Vishal Kapoor Senior VP of Business Development
Top tech growth strategist will further fast track adoption of the decentralized blockchain
Chia Network, Inc., a next generation open-source blockchain and smart transaction platform founded by Bram Cohen, announced the hiring of Vishal Kapoor as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Kapoor will be responsible for strategizing new verticals, developing partnerships, incubating new business ventures, and corporate development for the company. He will report to Gene Hoffman, Chia’s President & COO.
“We warmly welcome Vishal to the Chia family,” said Hoffman. “His track record of success across a broad set of technology-driven endeavors speaks volumes for his unique talent as a business development strategist. As we continue to expand and set new targets for Chia, Vishal’s background and experience will shape and accelerate our pace of adoption.”
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“The enthusiasm comes in support of Chia’s strong commitment to build a secure, energy-efficient and compliant platform that meets the need of a growing and more sustainable and equitable market environment.”
“Joining Bram, Gene and the Chia team as adoption moves to the next level could not be more exciting,” said Vishal Kapoor. “The enthusiasm comes in support of Chia’s strong commitment to build a secure, energy-efficient and compliant platform that meets the need of a growing and more sustainable and equitable market environment.”
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Kapoor previously served as the CEO of Paradata, a machine learning-based RPA engine for analyzing and adjudicating supply chain component data. Most recently, he also served as a Partner at Three Legged Stool, a company that creates software solutions to serve the needs of the COVID crisis and beyond. Earlier, he was Vice President, Product Management at Cadence Design Systems, where he successfully incubated and launched the EDA industry’s first SaaS solution & its entry into the Design IP segment. Kapoor also held engineering, sales and product management roles at Alcatel, Silicon Access Networks and Verisity.
Kapoor started his career engaged in the discovery of the Higgs Boson, developing big data and tiered data acquisition systems at the Superconducting Super Collider for the U.S. Department of Energy. Kapoor holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bombay and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas. He has served on several boards and currently is on the board of Class Central and the advisory board of Satalia, Lokker and Etairos.
