The Atlanta Blockchain Center is built and funded by the people who show up every week. These are the founders who started it and the advisors who help steer it.
A builder for 25 years. Marlon co-founded the Telos blockchain, served as chair of inspector general at WAX, and built Starter Labs, a launchpad that raised $45M for 60+ projects. A 2026 Morehouse graduate, he funds and leads ABC's mission to make Atlanta a capital of crypto, culture, and the civic fight.
Twelve years a mortgage broker, then he found crypto. Dan has been with Marlon since day 0, when ATL Jeep Life meetups were the gut-check on whether Atlanta would show up. He led the design and renovation of the first ABC building, secured February 2022 with doors open that June. Mortgage broker turned blockchain savant and stock trader.
Co-founder of BitAngels, the first angel network for blockchain startups, and founder and CEO of Transform Group. He created the CoinAgenda investor conferences and is one of crypto's longest-tenured investors and strategists.
Founder of HOLMES@LAW, an intellectual-property, technology, and Web3 law firm. A Stanford and Emory Law graduate with 20+ years advising clients from startups to Microsoft and Chick-fil-A, she is ABC's Senior Legal Advisor and a Web3 Top 100 Woman of the Future.
A digital-marketing and social-media pioneer, bestselling author, and futurist named to Forbes' Top Social Media Influencers. A relentless connector, he helps ABC founders reach the partners, audiences, and capital that move companies forward.