Our approach.
ICON is a financial firm tailored to the token economy that helps institutional investors and venture capitalists generate yield with their cryptoasset portfolio.
Our Mission.
We aim to ensure the security and the growth of crypto networks while paving the way for institutional capital in the space.
We are hiring.
Meet the Team
Founded by a team of Venture Capitalists and Asset Managers with a deep passion and knowledge of Blockchain technologies, ICON Partners will vote, validate and stake in networks it believes have the most potential to impact the Web 3.0 while providing all the tools needed for proper asset management.
Our Advisors
Ryan has over 20 years of experience building, securing, and operating advanced and novel payment systems. He left MIT to launch an anonymous token system in the 1990s. founded HavenCo (the world’s first offshore datahaven), build a Chaumian blinded-token library, and has assisted with security for multiple successful ICOs
Doug has a fifteen-year career in the IT field that progressed from developing banking and accounting software to co-founding security software company C2Net (now part of Red Hat). During this time he also worked as a systems programmer for IBM, was Vice President of Consulting at Securify/Kroll-O’Gara and co-founded IO.com, one of the first commercial Internet Service Providers.
Doug has been admitted to practice law in New York since 2006, after receiving a JD from the University of Texas with high honors.
Doug has been admitted to practice law in New York since 2006, after receiving a JD from the University of Texas with high honors.
Graduating from the University of Warwick in 2004, Thomas wrote the words ‘Digital money techniques allow creation of unforgeable tokens’ in the future research section of his final report. Sadly he is not Satoshi, but does bring with him over a decade of engineering experience within FinTech. Thomas was the first outside technology hire of both P2P lending market Zopa, now valued over £400m, and BullionVault, a retail gold broker with Assets-Under-Management of over $2bn. He has been involved in the Ethereum community from the start. Attending every Devcon across three continents, and recently architected a significant smart contracts PoC for a major UK bank. As well as advising ICON Partners, Thomas works on his pet Solidity projects and consults for a number of clients across Europe.
As CEO & Co-founder of Safello, Frank is heading the efforts to onboard people into the cryptocurrency economy in a safe and compliant way. Safello is a Techstars alumni, nominated “best cryptocurrency company” by Techcrunch The Europas twice, winner of the Web Summit Angels’ Choice Awards, Finalist of the BBVA Challenge and the first company to close a Bitcoin proof-of-concept with a tier I bank, Barclays. Frank is a frequent speaker and moderator at events such as TEDx, Money2020, Coinsummit, Blockchain Week and the Digital Currency Summit. He is the City Leader for the distributed angel investment network BitAngels and through his investment firm Rhino Ventures he made early investments in cryptocurrencies and participated in the token sales of Ethereum, Civic, Polymath and others. Hot Topic listed Frank as one of the 100 most influential people in FinTech globally.