Christian Saucier
Chief Technology Officer
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Biography
Christian is an energetic management consultant, business leader, software engineer, and early bitcoin adopter. He has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing impactful IT solutions for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. Christian has global experience, leading projects in North-America, Asia-Pacific, EEMEA, and Latam.
Christian has implemented multiple systems that leverage blockchain technology as a proof of existence ledger. He has lectured at Bitcoin conferences on the topics of decentralised solutions and also given TV, radio, and podcast interviews on the innovative and transformative potential of peer-to-peer technology.
In addition to his responsibilities as CEO of Thinx! Software (www.thinxsoftware.com), Christian's current projects include CTO at ripe.io (www.ripe.io) and Director of Development at Equibit (www.equibit.org). Christian has broad experience in R&D, product management, sales, customer relationship management, and complex systems implementation.
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Ubitquity LLC
October 2015 - August 2016
Leading development of a decentralized real-estate Title and Deeds management solution. Our system is built using ColoredCoins on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. Once they become commercially viable, we also plan to support other blockchains like Ethereum. The Ubitquity Deeds system allows financial institutions, title insurance agents, county recorders, and property owners to jointly maintain a public record of ownership of a Title, transfer ownership to other individual(s), and record deeds of trust against a particular title.
Directory of Development
Equibit Development Corporation
October 2015 - present
Christian is leading the core backend development of Equibit's decentralized OTC securities platform. Our solution will introduce a new smart token called Equibit (EQB), which will be used to represent shares of corporate equity for the system users and customers The solution provides cross-blockchain transaction coordination and implements a web-of-trust reputation system amongst its users.
Chief Executive Officer
Thinx! Software
January 2015 - present
Thinx! was founded a little over 2 years ago with the mission to provide state-of-the-art SAAS solutions to the hospitality industry. Today, thinx! is proud to count some of the largest brands in the industry as its customers. We are pioneering the introduction of blockchain technology in the hospitality sector.
Education
Université de Sherbrooke
Bachelor's Degree
1990 - 1994
B.Sc. Computer Sciences
University of Georgia
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2002 - 2005
Other
Languages
english français
