Joe McCann

Joe McCann is a technologist, trader, and angel investor. With nearly 22 years of experience working on Wall Street to Silicon Valley, and with skills ranging from systematic and quantitative trading to fundraising and running a venture-backed enterprise software company, the perspective McCann brings to technology and finance is rather unique. McCann is a frequent speaker on the global conference circuit, actively promoting emerging technologies and relevant business use cases to bring pragmatism to futurism. Most recently, McCann was a Senior Director at Microsoft in the Cloud and AI organization focusing on incubations, M&A and startups. McCann also ran Systematic and Quantitative Trading for Cryptocurrencies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Prior to that McCann was the Founder and CEO of NodeSource, The Node.js Company. McCann is also an advisor to a handful of companies like Dharma (a decentralized finance app on Ethereum, acquired by OpenSea) and Voltage (Bitcoin lightning nodes-as-a-service), and Zebec (a money-streaming protocol on Solana) and is frequently mentioned in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.