Ken Miller, Chief Operating Officer at Gem

Ken's Bio:

A simple and secure platform for blockchain developers. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to have control over their own assets, starting with bitcoin. An experienced veteran in the payments and start-up world, Ken’s background encompasses executive roles throughout the evolution of payments, from brick and mortar banks, to online payments, and now Bitcoin. Ken was the VP of Risk Management and employee #22 at PayPal, where he built PayPal’s anti-fraud and credit systems that helped keep PayPal solvent and are still in use today. He went on to become Co-Founder and CEO of Anchor Intelligence, a company focused on ad optimization and eradicating click fraud, and then served as Vice-President of Product, XD, and Risk Services at Intuit, where he led payment initiatives for Intuit’s base of 5 million small businesses through payment products via Quickbooks, mobile, and Point-of-Sale. Along the way, he has also served as an advisor to numerous companies including Square, CapLinked, and Balanced, and currently advises the Better Than Cash Alliance, an Omidyar Network and Gates Foundation funded non-profit with a charter to convert cash to electronic payments in emerging countries. Ken’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CIO Magazine, Bloomberg, New York Times, USA Today, and TechCrunch.

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