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Jimmy Nguyen | CEO Money – Episode 34


Who is Jimmy Nguyen?

Jimmy Nguyen is likely one of the world’s main Bitcoin advocates. He is a famend and sought-after public orator, who speaks about Bitcoin and blockchain expertise at main occasions internationally. He can be a frequent commentator for on-line, televised and print media.

Jimmy is a world advocate for Bitcoin SV (BSV). BSV is the rebirth of the unique Bitcoin, designed to meet the Satoshi Vision (of Bitcoin’s mysterious founder Satoshi Nakamoto). Emerging from the contentious November 15, 2019 exhausting fork of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community, BSV now stands as its personal chain and coin – able to be the world’s new cash and world public blockchain for enterprises.

Jimmy has served as CEO of nChain Group, the worldwide chief in analysis and improvement of blockchain applied sciences, and at the moment chairs its Strategic Advisory Board.

Jimmy is Founding President of the Bitcoin Association, the first-ever group devoted to advance the enterprise of Bitcoin. The affiliation backs Bitcoin SV, and brings collectively builders, retailers, exchanges, miners and different Bitcoin community individuals. Jimmy heads the trade group because it supplies world assist for Bitcoin SV, as the important thing to long-term monetary success for all individuals within the inter-related Bitcoin ecosystem.

With 21 years of expertise as an mental property and digital expertise lawyer, Jimmy is well-suited to assist enterprise-level adoption of Bitcoin expertise. Over the course of his personal apply profession, Jimmy was a associate at three main U.S. regulation corporations – most lately Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. He represented multinational firms and rising firms in a variety of sectors – together with expertise, leisure, media, sports activities, monetary companies, shopper merchandise, retail, and automotive. His authorized shoppers included Amazon.com, Fandango, Hyundai Capital America, Kia Motors America, Live Nation Entertainment, Major League Baseball Properties, Microsoft, the Motion Picture Association of America, Sony Pictures Entertainment, TripAdvisor, Uber Technologies and extra. Jimmy has additionally been a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S.

Jimmy was born in Saigon, South Vietnam – the youngest baby of a distinguished decide. In April 1975, when Jimmy was 2 years previous, his household fled the nation the evening earlier than the autumn of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces, and re-settled into Southern California. Since then, Jimmy has a historical past of excelling early – graduating faculty at age 19 and regulation college at age 22. He earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Communication Studies, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Law School.

In 2008, Lawdragon named Jimmy (at solely age 36) one of many “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has been acknowledged by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2019). A pacesetter within the IP group, Jimmy was previously Chair of the State Bar of California’s Intellectual Property Law part, and co-chaired the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s IP, Internet and New Media part.

Jimmy can be a powerful variety and LGBT rights advocate. He co-chaired the California Minority Counsel Program and was inducted into its “Diversity Leader Hall of Fame” (2015). Diversity MBA Magazine named him a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015). Jimmy previously served on the Board of Equality California, the state’s main LGBT rights group, in the course of the interval of marriage equality battles. In 2012, the Huffington Post listed Jimmy as one of many “Most Influential LGBT Asian Icons.” In 2010, the Advocate journal named him to its “Forty under 40” record of main LGBT individuals in America.

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