Tyler Spalding

Tyler Spalding is currently a Co-Founder at Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. He has been actively involved in cryptocurrencies since 2011. Tyler was formerly the Chief Technology Officer at Raise, the world's largest gift card marketplace with over $1 billion in sales and $150 million in venture funding. He has over 20 years of technology experience, has founded and sold three software companies, and is an active seed-stage investor in 25+ startups. Tyler is the author of more than 50 technology patents, and was a faculty member at two universities for aerospace engineering. He is also a proud former engineer for the United Space Alliance, the United States Air Force, the NASA Mars Crew Module, and the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Tyler has been a speaker at various retail, payments, and blockchain events such as Money 20/20, Consensus, ShopTalk, Intersect Retail, Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, and the E-Commerce Conference and Exposition (International Keynote). His specialties include cryptocurrency, blockchain, payments, anti-fraud systems, smart contracts, mobile product development, retail recommendation systems, and Scotch whisky.