Blockchain Rockstar Yiseul as Newest Advisor to PolicyPal Network https://medium.com/@policypalnet/blockchain-rockstar-yiseul-as-newest-advisor-to-policypal-network-61b3b737112cAcclaimed data scientist and blockchain expert Yiseul Cho has a decade (and counting) of experiences across academia, business leadership, entrepreneurship and technology. She holds a double Master’s in Energy Market & Strategy and Information Synthesis from École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and Massachusetts Institute of Technology respectively.
An ex-Facebooker, Yiseul joined HSBC HQ for its first ever Blockchain team as blockchain engineer in 2016 and led the Blockchain analytics team. She won the 1st place in Consensus hackathon in 2016 with drone blockchain protocol (the 1st picks of Consensys, Deloitte, Microsoft) and is an ex-founding partner of Blockchain Partners Korea (currently HASHED).
Yiseul is now concurrently leading many organisations in the blockchain ecosystem as a Founder/ Managing Director/ Partner/ Advisor. To experiment and explore the potential applications of blockchain and bring data analytics to blockchain, Yiseul set up London-based Blockchain technology consulting firm Zen9 Ltd in 2015. The company consulted Visa Card, a New York based investment bank, two blockchain technology startups and HSBC blockchain team.
As a blockchain evangelist, she created the Hyperledger London meetup group, the biggest private blockchain technology community in the world focused on finance industry. She grew the community to 2,780 members with events of 300–600% oversubscription. The group focuses on exploring blockchain technology’s implementation in the financial industry, and the event has been co-hosted and sponsored by Sapient Global Markets, HSBC, RBS, BNY Mellon and Barclays.
In addition, she founded Asian Crypto Girl power, the group of influential female entrepreneurs in the Asian crypto space to support female developers and entrepreneurs, as well as Perceptra Network a blockchain startup accelerator. On top of that, she is currently a board member of 2 blockchain conferences and an advisor to PolicyPal Network, ICON Foundation, MediBloc, Waves Platform, Nucleus Vision and The Bee Token.
