Jeff Sayre

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About Jeff Sayre

Jeff Sayre is a serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, and venture investor (micro VC) focusing on the humanity-2.0 space. As a startup and smartup innovator, he lives and works at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, the Semantic Web, Synaptic Web, Regenerative & Personalized Medicine, the Quantified Self, Quantum Computing, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Open and Big Data, the Global Brain, Blockchain, and Ecology. It’s a multidimensional amalgam of thought, innovation, disruption, and vision! Jeff has advised and co-founded companies in a wide domain, from augmented reality startups in the Social Web space, to biological computing startups in the synthetic biology space. He’s written widely and presented on a diversity of topics from the Open Web and Open Source of all types (software, hardware, science, data, Web standards), to the Federated Social Web and user-centric models of control (identity, privacy, rights, data portability), to future-of-money projects (cryptocurrencies, blockchain, universal payment standards), to artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and other humanity-2.0 topics. As a well-known open source technologist, Jeff served as an invited expert to several World Wide Web Consortium groups. As a business executive with a record of startup success in several companies, Jeff has developed diverse and solid business skills. He is a dynamic, innovative, results-oriented, performance-driven leader with proven abilities in startup management and growth, strategic planning and implementation, team building and mentoring, sales and marketing, operations management, budgeting and fiscal management, mergers and acquisition planning, proactive communication, crisis resolution, and turnaround management. His entrepreneurial spirit, clarity of vision, and ability to build successful, motivated teams gives him the necessary tools to seek out market opportunities and take measured risks to help further a startup’s vision.