Jess Hurwitz is the Founder, CEO, & Chief Strategist for dX9 – a global consulting, advisory, strategy, and venture firm. dX9 works with a wide assortment of clients, including companies (SMB to Global Enterprise), projects, startups, and investors. dX9 specializes in blockchain (crypto/digital assets, NFTs, industry/enterprise, DeFi & asset tokenization), digital innovation and transformation, maritime/shipping, tech/fintech, B2B SaaS, strategy (business organization, sales, marketing, funding, CS, CX, and technology), global commercialization, security & compliance, API first strategy, early and mid-stage startups, scale-ups, turnarounds, flips, and rapid growth initiatives. Jess helps growing companies of all sizes and management teams grow, scale, and expand by optimizing strategy, data, and technology, and by aligning people, products, and processes for maximum results. Jess often focuses on moving companies from data to decisions and using highly optimized technology to drive revenue-focused execution with increased business velocity towards goals and milestones. Jess is a serial entrepreneur, a strategic executive, and a veteran of the PC, backup, and data storage industries. Jess is best known as an entrepreneurial executive generalist and an innovative technologist, solutionist, and strategist. His ability, comfort, and experience straddling the line between business and technology is a unique talent that has propelled Jess through a very successful, diverse, robust, and hybrid global career. As an engaged servant leader, Jess is passionate about helping people to exceed their personal expectations and developing, coaching, and mentoring team members supporting their professional growth and development. Jess believes that business should be purposeful and meaningful while encompassing critical components such as respect, kindness, diversity, inclusion, equity, environmental and sustainability initiatives, and proper governance.