Chris Dannen
Chris Dannen is CIO, Co-Founder, and Managing Partner at Iterative Capital, the New York-based cryptocurrency investment manager, and head of product at i2 Trading, the wholesale dealer and trading desk. His career has been devoted to the study and design of human systems in an entrepreneurship context. As a corporate ethnographer, Chris documented process and organization design inside hundreds of large corporations and early-stage startups, learning how successful products are conceived and executed. His writing on innovation is published in Fast Company, Wired, and MIT Technology Review.
As a strategist, he has consulted independently for Bloomberg LP, Microsoft, Edelman, Soho House, General Assembly and Atlantic Media, plus others as a staff strategist for Undercurrent LLC and ReD Associates, including Samsung, GE, and American Express. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded the iOS development shop Sneakers Agency in Brooklyn, NY in 2013, and began his first small-scale cryptocurrency mining operation in 2014.