1. Mark Zuckerberg
CEO at Facebook
A Media Magnet, Internet Entrepreneur, Leader in Innovation & Technology, and the CEO of Meta (Former Facebook), the one who doesn’t need a formal introduction. As a part of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg owns one of the leading social media platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram alongside tech companies like Onavo, Beluga, and Oculus. His expertise and interest range from VR, Analytics, Big Data, Metaverse, Ed Tech and Augmented Reality.
2. Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO at Microsoft
Satya Nadella is an Indian-origin visionary and one of the most influencing leaders from Silicon Valley in the world of technology. He’s the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, a Member Board Of Trustees of the University of Chicago, and a Board Member of Starbucks & Fred Hutch. He started his professional career at Microsoft in 1992 and became the corporate VP of Microsoft Business Solutions in 2001. After working in multiple departments in Microsoft Satya Nadella was named the CEO in February of 2014. His expertise in the business covers strategy, engineering, marketing, and product development for Microsoft’s server and cloud computing.
3. David Baszucki
Founder and CEO, Roblox Corporation
No doubt why thousands of teenagers are in love with David Baszucki around the world because of his ultimate creation “Roblox”. David is the Creator, Founder, and CEO of the game Roblox which is a global platform that brings together User-Generated Content, Social Play, and the latest Cross-Platform technologies. David is a graduate of Stanford University Scholar in Electrical Engineering. He is a Philanthropist and unarguably the best CEO for diversity in the organization.
4. Neal Stephenson
American writer
Neal Stephenson is an American writer, a Sociomediapath and can safely be called the godfather of the term “Metaverse”, as he’s the one who coined the term Metaverse, for the first time, way back in 1992. He is known for his works of speculative fiction, authoring one of the best-selling books/novels like Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Baroque Cycle, and Cryptonomicon. He’s also an actor and has recently launched a book “Termination Shock”, talking about reversing global warming. Interesting, right?
5. Tim Sweeney
Timothy Dean Sweeney is a businessman, conservationist, video game programmer, and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development platform. He’s also known as the Founder and CEO of Epic Games. Timothy is passionate about games since childhood and has programmed & developed and licensed several games like ZZT, Jill of the Jungle, First-Person Shooter, and Unreal just to name a few. He was chosen as Person of the Year at the Forbes Media Awards 2020 and also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
6. Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang is the CEO of NVIDIA, a visionary in the tech industry, and one of the prime speakers on Metaverse. He is one of the pioneers to solve the problem of 3D graphics for the PC and invented the GPU (Graphics processing unit) in 1999. Currently, GPUs have been used for autonomous vehicles, intelligent avatars and virtual assistants, fire management, 5G beamforming, and quantum computing simulation. Jensen and the organization are also working on an amazing project to build a digital twin of the earth for climate modeling to solve modern age problems.
7. Ryan Gill
CEO at Communo
Ryan is the CEO at Communo, Chairman at The Gathering, the Co-Founder of Cult Collective, and a Partner at Polymine Bitcoin Mining. He’s an entrepreneur at heart, speaker, blogger in Marketing and Growth and, a strong believer in the community value system. He prioritizes philanthropic work and helps run Project Smile, an organization he co-founded over 15 years ago. You can see the reflection of his thought process translating into the goal of Communo which goes as “Communities of vetted marketing professionals collaborating on the work they love, with the people they love, for the brands they love.”
8. Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder and COO at Sandbox
A father, an entrepreneur, and the Co-Founder & COO of The Sandbox. Sebastien Borget is the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance and also an advocate for NFTs & blockchain in games. He’s been working with numerous growing startups with diverse business models as an advisor across the fields of Blockchain and Mobile Gaming. Sebastian is a Computer Science Engineer from StudParis, and he was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph.
9. Esteban Ordano
Esteban Ordano is an Angel investor and technology evangelist with a passion for cryptocurrency and blockchain and loves tech, games, art, infosec, bitcoin, and philosophy. He’s the tech lead at Decentraland, co-founder at Zeppelin Solutions, and the inventor of Streamium. Another remarkable work of Esteban includes co-creating one of the leading Bitcoin infrastructure libraries, known as Bitcore. Other than that he’s an Independent Software Consultant, and can speak Portuguese, French, and Spanish.
10. Vitalik Buterin
Canadian-Russian programmer
Vitalik Buterin is known as the co-founder of one the most famous cryptocurrency “Ethereuam” and also the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. Vitalik is a Canadian-Russian programmer and has been associated with cryptocurrency since its inception. He’s a philanthropist and has been helping a number of research centers across the USA and Canada. Vitalik Buterin has recently joined the dogecoin foundation as a blockchain and crypto advisor working on the unique proposal for a ‘Community Staking’.
