Bob Seeman

Background

About Bob Seeman

I am a business builder with uncommon breadth and depth of knowledge. I have a unique ability to integrate and identify synergies between business, legal, and technology to drive business growth. I am an “interdisciplinarian”. I teach brevity. I generate and integrate new substantive and meaningful ideas. I think about things in ways others do not. I act as an ambassador, translator, facilitator, connector, interpreter, and mediator between disciplines and industries to find cross-disciplinary value. Business expertise: finance, negotiating deals, business development, and branding. Founder of three profitable businesses, one public. Experienced and successful in senior business development. Relationship builder. Legal expertise: J.D, California bar, negotiation, contracts, IP, and privacy, AI. Technology expertise: B.A.Sc. electrical engineering, cybersecurity, fintech, data analytics, AI, and life sciences. International: Negotiated deals in Africa, Asia, South America. Studied in France. Worked in Canada, UK, and USA. Citizen of Canada, USA, and EU. Lives in Vancouver. I am a keynote speaker at investor, cybersecurity, money-laundering, regulatory and prosecution conferences throughout the world. Keynote topics include cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, digital payments, privacy, technology and business, technology start-ups, and trust. A recent interview on CBC TV is at cybercurb.com/pub. Keynotes include: – European Central Bank, Frankfurt – National Association of Attorneys General conference, Burlington – FBI Cybersecurity Conference, New York – Value Investing Conference, Toronto – OffshoreAlert anti-money laundering conference, Miami – International Association of Prosectors conference, T'bilisi My published books include the foremost bitcoin-skeptic book, “The Coinmen”,"The Cybersecurity Handbook","On Trust", and "Power in Mistake”. I was Head of Strategy for Microsoft Network UK in London and have published a widely read journal article calling for novel policy action, which policy the US government later adopted. I practiced administrative and regulatory law with the now Norton Rose Fulbright, a full-service international law firm. I have a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc, Elec. Eng.) with Honours from the University of Toronto, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from EDHEC University in France, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of British Columbia. I dumb things down to make them accessible. — My online words are never legal advice.