Chris Mack

Founder & CEO/CTO Carbon.Credit

Chris Mack is a seasoned, hands-on technology executive, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of proven experience as a builder in fintech. As a leader in the industry, Chris took on the challenge of building a complex but scaleable multi-chain NFT marketplace for ticketing and music as the CTO of YellowHeart. Successes included an album drop with Kings of Leon, live shows with MGM in Las Vegas, drops with Maroon 5, Jerry Garcia, Lennon, and many more. Prior to joining YellowHeart, Chris founded Levidge, a high performance crypto derivatives exchange that licensed its engine technology to Binance for futures trading. Prior to that, he served as Director of Technology for Galaxy Digital. At Eris Digital he built a crypto exchange matching engine benchmarked at 1 million orders per second. He also built a trading platform for arbitrage and market making at a Capital Arbitrage/ETF prop trading desk for Jefferies, and consulted as a technical expert for Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Bloomberg and LiquidNet. Chris is also the founder of tradeplacer.com, a precious metals exchange. Chris earned a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Economics from Carnegie Mellon. He has a passion for both finance and technology, as he believe's that one enables the other. His focus is creating and adding as much value as he can in every situation.