Sheldon Inwentash B.Comm., CA., CPA., LL.D.

Advisor

Sheldon Inwentash, a serial entrepreneur, is chairman and chief executive officer of ThreeD Capital Inc., a Toronto-based venture capital firm specializing in investments in junior resources, technology and biotechnology.

Mr. Inwentash has more than 30 years of investing experience and has been instrumental in raising $15 billion for his portfolio companies over the last 15 years. He co-founded Visible Genetics, the first commercial pharmacogenomics company, in 1994 and exited in 2001 to Bayer. Through two decades leading Pinetree Capital, Mr. Inwentash created significant shareholder value through early investments in Queenston Mining (acquired by Osisko Mining Corp. for $550-million), Aurelian Resources (acquired by Kinross for $1.2-billion) and Gold Eagle Mines (acquired by Goldcorp for $1.5-billion) to name a few.

Sheldon obtained his B.Comm from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Accountant/Certified Professional Accountant. In 2007, he was an Ontario finalist for the Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year award. In 2012, Sheldon received an honorary degree, doctor of laws (LL.D) from the University of Toronto for his valuable leadership as an entrepreneur, his philanthropy, and inspirational commitment to making a difference in the lives of children, youth and their families.

Jai Waterman

Co-Founder, Chief Enterprise Architect and Corporate Director

Jai is the Chief Enterprise Architect of CloudDunk a Cloud based ERP solution responsible for businesses across 12 industries. He is also the inventor of Cross Company Automation allowing businesses to automate processes internally and externally across multiple independent organizations. The allure of expediting B2B payments using Bitcoin was too attractive to Jai, which is what brought him to Blockstation. Jai was able to assemble and manage the development team for the Company resulting in the successful deployment of the Blockstation platform.

Marko M. Hafez

Co-Founder and Corporate Director


Marko has owned and operated Damasci Diamonds, a premiere online diamond retailer that boasts one of the most advanced internet marketplaces and IT solutions for the sale, management and distribution of precious gems. As Damasci grew its $180 million worth of inventory, it placed tremendous international settlement constraints on the company’s transactions, whereby Marko discovered the utility of Blockchain Tokens like Bitcoin. This discovery led to his realization that these instruments will someday need to be delivered forth to financial markets like all other negotiable instruments, sparking the idea of Blockstation. Marko’s networks with high-level developers, Brokerages and Bullion Dealers, was the perfect match to exploit Blockstation’s technology stack

Michael Shmulevich

Software Architect

Technology startups specialist with 18+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture. Michael has held top technical management positions at several companies including Director of Software Development at BSM Technologies Inc (TSE:GPS) and CEO of software consulting firm Exilion Technologies Inc. In recent years he was involved in producing software architecture and managing software development of several financial technology projects including algorithmic trading, risk management and cryptocurrency.

Chris Shaule, CPA CA

Chief Compliance Officer

Mr. Shaule has extensive experience in both the private and public markets particularly focused in the resource sectors. Mr. Shaule is the former Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets and National Sales Manager at Northern Securities Inc., the former Chief Financial Officer of Dundee Securities Corporation, Northern Securities Inc. and Taurus Capital Markets Ltd. In addition, Mr. Shaule is the former Chief Trading Officer at Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc. and former Director of Risk at Harris Brown & Partners Limited. Mr. Shaule is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Sciences (Mathematics) from Queen’s University.

Carmello Marrelli

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Mirelli is the principal of Marrelli Support Services Inc., a firm that has delivers accounting and regulatory compliance services to listed companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) and the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE), as well as non-listed companies. In addition, Carm is affiliated with DSA Corporate Services Inc., a firm providing corporate secretarial and regulatory filing services to the junior capital market in Canada.
Well-known within the Canadian junior mining industry, Carm takes a value- based approach to serving clients. Carm is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA, CGA) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, a professional body that certifies corporate secretaries. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.
Carm also acts as the chief financial officer to a number of issuers on the TSX, TSX-V and CSE, as well as non-listed companies and as a director of select issuers.

James DeStephanis

Corporate Director

James is an experienced entrepreneur, international investor, strategist and educator. He is a Co-Founder of an investment education and development company which influences a rapidly growing international portfolio of business and real estate assets.
James is a faculty member, curriculum designer and instructor of the Self Development Lab, Leadership Development Lab and Mind Brain Behavior. James is an advocate of investing in blockchain technology and sees blockchain as an enabling technology in business and finance.

Wayne Isaacs

Director - Capital Markets

Mr. Isaacs has had a 25 year career on Bay Street specializing in the resource sector both as a corporate executive of resource companies and as an investment banker. This extensive experience has allowed him to successfully seek out and engage and acquire significant resource assets and financing to support exploration, development and mining activities for his operating and investee companies. He has been involved as principal in 30 listed companies and has served as a director and / or senior officer of over 35 listed companies.
Mr. Isaacs has won several business, and achievement awards, and he has chaired and participated in many international resource discussions and has been featured in various media in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Mr. Isaacs is a graduate of the prestigious University of Western Ontario and has held numerous securities certifications and licenses. Since resigning his position with Augustine in October 2012, Mr. Isaacs has been active consulting domestically and internationally with resource and financing opportunities and remains active in seeking undervalued businesses for acquisition.

Rasool Verjee

Advisory Board

Opportunistic Serial Entrepreneur with a depth of experience in telecommunications, technology and an extensive diverse global network.
He holds degrees in Law from Cambridge University. His career has been marked by early adoption of emerging technologies delivering high returns on equity from start-up operations as evidenced by Telemagix, Canada’s first interactive Information service; Telepersonals that went on to become LavaLife Inc: North America’s leading provider of phone and online Dating Services. World Phone Inc: that partnered with Tier One carriers
including AT&T, Teleglobe Canada and Codetel generating over 10,000,000 minutes a month of International Audiotex Voice traffic; Atlas Telecom Network a leader in Wholesale VOIP Termination; MobileMiser Inc: a disruptive service helping consumers reduce their international cell phone charges. He believes in blockchain's disruptive potential to reshape and transform the financial markets.