While in Davos, Business Insider's Sara Silverstein interviewed Adam Ludwin, co-founder and
CEO of Chain, for a special edition of Crypto Insider.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Adam Ludwin,
CEO of Chain, was an investor in Uber.
In 2010, it was
the CEO of a chain of supermarkets.
«2018 is off to a strong start as we built upon our fourth quarter momentum, reporting another quarter of robust top and bottom - line growth,» Randy Garutti,
CEO of the chain, said in a press release.
He will collaborate alongside Irene Katzela, Ph.D. and
CEO of Chain of Points.
«It currently costs a lot of money to make sure there are no mistakes, even when you're using [software], because there are human factors involved in the transfer, recording and valuation work around securities,» explained Adam Ludwin,
CEO of Chain.
Some of the panel speakers in attendance were Wences Casares, CEO of Xapo; Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase; Adam Ludwin,
CEO of Chain; and David Rutter, CEO of R3CEV.
Adam Ludwin is the cofounder and
CEO of Chain, an «enterprise - grade blockchain infrastructure that enables organizations to build better financial services from the ground up».
The list of additional speakers includes Adam Ludwin, the Co-founder and
CEO of Chain; Stephen Pair, the Co-founder and CEO of BitPay; Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum; Jeff Garzik, Core Developer and Co-Founder at Bloq, as well as FBI, MIT and Microsoft representatives among others.
Not exact matches
AMC, one
of the country's largest theater
chains and a subsidiary
of China's Dalian Wanda Group, has reportedly signed on in support
of Screening Room, though the company's
CEO has been reluctant to go on the record about the startup.
An investor group that includes the Fischer Family and Marcus Lemonis, Chairman and
CEO of Camping World and Good Sam Enterprises and star
of CNBC's «The Profit,» confirmed it plans to provide financing for the struggling cupcake
chain as a prelude to an acquisition.
The technology «has the potential to dramatically reduce time, cost and risk across the entire insurance value
chain,» said Bill Pieroni, president and
CEO of ACORD, an insurance standards group, in a statement.
That's according to Robert Thompson, the founder and
CEO of Punch Bowl Social, a
chain of bar - restaurants across the country that house arcade games, fluorescent lighting, and karaoke machines.
According to Eimantas Balciunas,
CEO of Travel Ticker: «To secure more hotel partnerships at Travel Ticker, sometimes the sales team enlists help from members
of the executive team — including me — to gain introductions to other influencers in the hospitality industry who may have access to hard - to - reach executives at boutique and
chain hotels around the world.»
Today, almost half
of Inc. 500
CEOs responding to our survey say that political instability has complicated their jobs, forcing them to rethink things like strategy, supply
chains, and markets.
And the Tex - Mex
chain's
CEO, Brian Niccol, is incredibly optimistic about this shot
of adrenaline to the dollar menu.
Donald Schroeder, then president and
CEO of coffee shop
chain Tim Hortons, at the company's AGM in Toronto on May 14, 2010 (Photo: Chris Young / CP)
«We provide entrepreneurs with a flexible staffing system,» says Bob Funk,
CEO of Express Employment Professionals, a franchised North American temp
chain with 34 offices in Canada.
The quintessential moment
of Yum Brands» Investor Conference was when Taco Bell's
CEO said that the Mexican fast - food
chain was «on fleek.»
Commenting on the Company's first quarter results, Ryder Chairman and
CEO Robert Sanchez said, «Our results were at the high - end
of our expectations in the first quarter, driven by stronger than expected results in our rental, supply
chain, and dedicated businesses.
Finally, companies like Burger King might seem antithetical to data centers, but for Equinix
CEO Steve Smith, the fast - food
chain represents just one
of the many clients his business serves.
As fast food employees push to increase the minimum wage, the former
CEO of one
chain tells CNBC that could be counterproductive.
(In the
CEO's 60 - minute interview with Fortune, he never talked about improving the quality
of the
chain's food.)
Specifically, Panera founder and
CEO Ron Shaich on Wednesday challenged the
CEOs of Wendy's, McDonald's, and Burger King to eat exclusively from their
chain's kids» menus for seven days.
No one has a better understanding
of this than American Apparel
CEO Dov Charney who was quoted in The Village Voice lamenting the death
of the fad his retail
chain championed, if not started.
If Target failed to cater to regional and cultural differences, it's also done a poor job
of distinguishing itself in the marketplace, says Mario Pilozzi, former
CEO of Walmart Canada and the man who presided over the
chain's entry into Canada in the mid-1990s.
Gilles Labbe, the former head
of aerospace cluster Aero Montreal and
CEO of F - 35 supplier Heroux - Devtek (TSX: HRX), last year warned that thousands
of jobs would be at risk if lead manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman remove work destined to be completed in Canada by members
of the global supply
chain.
Garrett See,
CEO of DV
Chain, a boutique Chicago firm whose biggest cryptocurrency deals reach $ 5 million, says early adopters are typically the sources
of the largest blocks for trading.
At just 38 years old, he's the
CEO of a Quebec - based
chain called Fix Auto.
Business Insider's Sara Silverstein spoke with Adam Ludwin,
CEO of blockchain technology firm
Chain, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Kevin Johnson, Starbucks»
CEO, was forced to apologize this weekend after a video
of two black men being arrested at a Philadelphia location
of the coffee
chain went viral.
The drugstore
chain is a relative unknown outside its home
of Quebec, but there, the founder is a familiar, grandfatherly icon who, along with his youngest son and current
CEO, François, was inducted into Canada's Marketing Hall
of Legends last year.
From there, he moved on to FedEx where he eventually landed as the
CEO of FedEx Supply
Chain Services.
The numbers, which put the department store
chain on track to post its first quarter
of comparable sales growth in three years, are the start
of an awaited payoff to years
of investment in Macy's e-commerce firepower, says Macy's departing executive chairman and former long - time
CEO Terry Lundgren.
Like it or not, trade and supply
chains are fluid, notes Hiten Shah, founder, president and
CEO of Columbus, Ohio - based manufacturing and logistics company Marketing and Engineering Solutions.
-- Eric Casaburi,
CEO of Retro Fitness, a 155 - plus unit fitness
chain which provides members with big box gym amenities for $ 20 a month
The
CEO of AMC Entertainment — you know, the world's biggest movie theater
chain — made waves yesterday when he told Variety that he'd be open to allowing texting or cell phone use during movies.
The panel discussion featured some
of the smartest folks in the health field — Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the pioneering heart surgeon and former
CEO of Cleveland Clinic; Bob Kocher, the Venrock partner who helped shape the Affordable Care Act; Humana
CEO Bruce Broussard, who's very thoughtful on the healthcare value
chain; and two JPM folks — Bei Ling, JPMorgan Chase's global head
of compensation and benefit, and moderator Diana Farrell,
CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute (hereafter, please, JPMCI), the bank's in - house socially minded think tank.
-- Gary Meyers,
CEO of supply
chain intelligence company FusionOps
Chipotle's new
CEO is coming from a very different type
of Mexican - food
chain: the fast - food icon Taco Bell.
«It would be a big loss to the country if President Trump were to stop the program,» says Lam, 49, the founder and
CEO of the Best in Class Education Center franchise, a Seattle - based
chain of 50 learning centers in 10 states that employ about 300 people.
There's no single reason for Home Hardware's climb; it's a combination
of consistency — the company has had just three
CEOs since its founding in 1964 — and its slow - and - steady approach to modernizing its retail experience (the company is four years into a five year plan in which it told dozens
of locations to shape up or leave the
chain).
Julie Meyer, Chairman and
CEO of Ariadne Capital tells CNBC the reason Airbnb is surpassing the market cap
of public hotel
chains such as InterContinental Hotels is due to «its network, its reach, the peer to peer platform that is driving the economics
of the sector.»
CEO and cofounder Angel Versetti says in a press release: «With a dynamic ecosystem
of complementing technologies developed within and around the Ethereum ecosystem, we have devised a bold rethinking
of how the global food supply
chains and markets could operate.
Undaunted by bagging groceries and cleaning out grease traps in the meat room, she rose from a marketing executive to eventually become
CEO of Sweetbay Supermarket, a troubled Florida
chain owned by Hannaford's parent company.
Adam Ludwin, the
CEO of a San Francisco blockchain services company called
Chain, captured the finance world's attention in 2017 when he wrote an open letter to Jamie Dimon.
«I see healthy alternatives picking up more and more [in quick service restaurants],» says Mike Weinberger,
CEO of smoothie
chain Maui Wowi, which was featured on Entrepreneur's 2014 Franchise 500 list.
In June 2000, Andy Puzder was named president and
CEO of CKE Restaurants, running Hardee's and Carl's Jr. restaurant
chains.
Since the selling cycle is longer and presentations are made higher up in the
chain of command, the person making the sale has to be comfortable conversing with
CEOs.
LONDON — The
CEO of British supermarket
chain Sainsbury's has apologized after being caught on camera singing» We're in the Money» following the purchase
of Walmart's British unit, Asda.