MetaWorks partnered with these two nostalgic brands to turn the $100,000 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 inventory into non-fungible digital collectibles. The digital collectible packs were available in five-card packs for $4.99 and 30-card packs for $24.99, and could be held in digital wallets or traded on the platform. The first release sold out in just over 24 hours.
The MetaWorks collectibles platform built to power transactions included features for:
Issuance: Branded digital collectibles created as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) on the WAX blockchain
Provenance: Scarcity and ownership history authenticated on the WAX blockchain
Security: Smart contracts and digital wallets to buy, hold, or trade digital collectibles within communities
Monetization: Payment processing integrated for purchases of the digital collectibles
We are powered by an award-winning team of fanatics, full-stack developers, future-seeing technologists, and passionate builders with expertise spanning the entire blockchain, crypto, and Web3 ecosystem.
Shelly Murphy
CEO and Managing Partner, GSD Group Inc.
Shelly Murphy is the CEO and Managing Partner of GSD Group, the innovation and strategy group behind Atari Hotels. Murphy is at the nexus of creating new verticals in technology, education and entertainment. She founded the largest tech and innovation event in Arizona, DesTechAZ with Steve Wozniak, and is CEO of the Woz Innovation Foundation, a non-profit focused on building the future of technology by providing opportunities for innovation through K-12 education in underserved markets.
Murphy has an extensive background and career experience in executive leadership, management, business development and over two decades of experience in finance with over $900MM USD issued in private activity bonds. Murphy established her career and was appointed by Governor’s Executive Order as the Executive Director and CEO of Arizona Higher Education Loan Authority, a not-for profit organization with a mission to provide low-cost education financing solutions for Arizona students. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards for OfferPad, an industry leader in innovative end-to-end real estate transactions, and The Game Fund Partners, a $350MM venture fund focused on Gaming, Esports and related Media.
Edmund Moy
Former 38th Director of the U.S. Mint
Edmund C. Moy is a senior executive with a successful track record in public and private companies.
As Director of the U.S. Mint, the world’s largest manufacturer of coins and medals, increased profitability 62% to over $1 billion a year, increased revenue 213% to $4.97 billion, and increased precious metal bullion sales by 975% to a record $3.5 billion annually.
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Rob Shewchuk
CEO of Yat Group
Rob is President of Hammell Road Innovation Corporation and Partner at Caerus Capital. Rob began his career as an Equities Trader and became a licensed broker in 1998. Later he joined Standard Securities Capital Corporation where he became Chairman in 2006.
Rob merged Standard Securities with Wolverton Securities Ltd in 2009 with more than $1B in assets under management.
Konstantin Richter
Blockdaemon CEO
Konstantin Richter is the CEO & Founder of Blockdaemon, the “decentralization-as-a service” provider for blockchain ecosystems. He serves on advisory boards of multiple protocol and enterprise blockchain companies (madnetwork, po.et, gem.co).
He started his career at Deutsche Telekom, and held executive positions in strategy and development at TMobile International and Nokia, before becoming a successful SaaS B2B entrepreneur.
Steve Beauregard
GoCoin Founder
Steve is a serial entrepreneur, disputer, advisor and investor with a keen eye for emerging technologies and the business instincts to position companies in the sweet spot of each new tech wave.
As partner and Chief Revenue Officer for Bloq, Steve aligns Bloq’s offerings with the blockchain needs of Fortune 50 and Blockchain 50 organizations.
Greg Burnett
President of Carob Mgmt Ltd
Greg has 25 +years of capital markets experience as President and Managing Director of Carob Management Ltd, a private management consulting company specializing in due diligence services, business planning, and the structuring, financing, and management of emerging businesses.
He has experience in mining, oil and gas, green energy, consumer products, biotech, and tech.
James Geiskopf
Lead Director
James P. Geiskopf became a director of Verb Technology (Nasdaq:VERB) in May 2014, where he serves as the Lead Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Geiskopf has 32 years of experience leading major organizations.
Mr. Geiskopf was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Budget Rent a Car of Fairfield California until 2007 when he sold the franchise. Mr. Geiskopf served on the board of directors of Suisun Valley Bank and Napa Valley Bancorp.
Arian Hopkins
Communications
Arian Hopkins is senior communications and digital marketing professional with global experience providing Fortune 500 companies leadership in strategy, execution, and implementation of cohesive, user-centric experiences that drive organizational results. Expertise in developing, implementing, and optimizing public relations, digital and social media in support of high visibility campaigns that live both on and offline.
Past clients have included Accenture (Technology and Labs), Oracle, MRM/McCann Worldwide, General Motors (Cadillac), CN Rail, and Bell Canada.
Michael Arbach
VP of Technology
Michael is a business oriented software engineer with a proven 17 years track record building high performance solutions for top tier companies using emerging technologies. Michael was trusted by Northern Trust, the 4th largest custodian bank in the world to lead DLT based digital assets platform development, and by NASA to design and build core blockchain network for the Decentralized Reasoning Fabric DRF , a decentralized data streaming marketplace. He successfully designed multiple technologies to solve highly complex real world problems. Code produced by Michael is currently in production and has processed billions of dollars in transactions and securities exchange volume. Today some of the largest banks and organizations in the U.S and Japan. rely on software built by Michael and his team to power millions of users across various applications.
Michael holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Peoples’Friendship University of Russia. He is fluent in Russian, Arabic, English and French, enjoys piloting small airplanes and Classical Music.
Swapan Kakumanu
CFO
Swapan has more than 25 years of senior finance and operations experience and has served at senior executive management levels, both in public and private companies, in high growth technology, manufacturing, blockchain, medical device, trading and oil field services industries.
He has held senior roles as President, Chief Executive Officer,Chief Financial Officer, Company Secretary and Board Member.
Swapan has extensive experience in public company reporting, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, internal controls and general overall financial and operational management.
Scott Gallagher
President
Scott Gallagher has served in leadership roles in both public and privately held companies for more than 20 years in a variety of businesses including; online search, blockchain and wireless. He has held senior roles of President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Board Member.
Scott is a former stock broker and fund manager having held Securities licenses Series 7, 63 and 24 all of which were retired in good standing. He has extensive experience in public company operational management and reporting.
Cameron Chell
Founder & Chairman
Cameron has been an entrepreneur since age 14, and has since spent his career growing a diverse collection of high-potential ideas into revolutionary companies that have changed the way we experience the world.
At BIG, Cameron takes a hands-on leadership position in projects, infusing his principles of clarity, alignment and measurement into the culture of every BIG partner.
Cameron’s leadership was critical to the success of Urthecast, which he co-founded, Cold Bore Technologies, Slyce, Raptor Rig, Trace and Trax. Most recently, Cameron has served as an advisor to KodakCoin, one of the first compliant crypto currencies developed in partnership between Business Instincts Group, WENN Digital and ICOX Innovations. In addition to his work with BIG, Cameron is a popular motivational speaker on topics including technology, culture and overcoming adversity.
