Overview
Work history
Skills
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Accomplishments
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Benjamin Sullivan

Oxford,Oxfordshire

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work history

Chief Business Development Officer

Trrue
Co Cork, Ireland
09.2024 - Current

Drive strategic partnerships and business development initiatives for regulatory technology solutions. I ensured critical relationships with leading launchpads (e.g. DAO Maker and Poolz Finance) and centralised exchanges (e.g. Gate and Bitmart), during a time-sensitive launch of the $TRRUE token.

Develop go-to-market strategies for sustainable finance and compliance technology products. For example, I led a major strategic decision to pivot attention from one product, to one with significantly higher revenue potential.

Lead client acquisition efforts targeting financial institutions, regtech/ReFi companies and regulatory bodies.

Collaborate with C-suite leadership on strategic planning and market expansion.

CEO

Ova Labs
London, UK
02.2022 - Current

Built and scaled consultancy serving 25+ clients across Web3, AI, and emerging technology sectors. Including the likes of Polygon, Solana and Skale.

Absorbed and integrated adtech company, expanding service portfolio and client base.

Lead business development efforts securing partnerships with major technology platforms and enterprises. Including Alchemy, Binance and DAO Maker. Amounting to a total of 105 potential launch partners for Ova Labs' clients.

Manage cross-functional teams of sales people, strategists, and project managers. Leveraging agile sprints, bespoke Click-Up project management systems, and Motion utitlisation - to achieve this.

Personally developed go-to-market strategies for 15+ blockchain and AI startups, resulting in over $50M raised for our clients.

Chief Business Development Officer

blueHUT MEDIA
London, UK
03.2020 - 01.2023

Launched and scaled B2B advertising technology platform, serving 50+ enterprises. Leveraging on-chain targeted Twitter and Google Ads, to achieve record-low CPAs (average $0.11 CPF, on Twitter, in November 2022).

Built strategic partnerships with major advertising networks and technology. Including Addressable, CoinTelegraph, Coinzilla and Cointraffic.

Led product development and market positioning in the new but ever-competitive adtech space, in Web3.

Successfully executed a strategic acquisition by parent consultancy company.

Skills

  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Investor Relations
  • Team Leadership
  • Use-Case Development
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Government Relations
  • Market Entry Strategy
  • High-Ticket Sales

Organisations

All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Blockchain 

Member

United Kingdom, 05/2022 – Present


Advising UK Government on blockchain policy and regulation.

Lead stakeholder engagement between technology sector and government bodies.

Contribute to policy development for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and blockchain

regulation.

Represent industry interests in parliamentary discussions and white paper

development.

Accomplishments

    Raised over $50M for Web3/AI companies,

    via my own network of VCs and private investors.

    Birthed the 'Scout Network' movement, in Web3,

    that allows for exponentially compounding lead-generation efforts.

    Established myself as one of few Web3 grant program specialists,

    from consulting with the likes of Polygon/Aptos/HBAR, to designing brand new ecosystem funds.

    Established a collective of Web3's leading fractional executives,

    that led various ad-hoc and/or Ova Labs projects.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Chief Business Development Officer

Trrue
09.2024 - Current

CEO

Ova Labs
02.2022 - Current

Chief Business Development Officer

blueHUT MEDIA
03.2020 - 01.2023
Benjamin Sullivan