Blockspaces Announces Key Changes

BlockSpaces outlines a new operating model, management team and a seed round of capital.

TAMPA, FLORIDA, June 22, 2020 — BlockSpaces, Inc., today announced key leadership additions to their team, including the election of Gregory Pierce as Operating Chairman of Board.

With expertise in cloud trends, systems integration, security, scale computing and emerging technology strategies, Pierce was the co-founder and Chief Cloud Officer of Concerto Cloud Services, an affiliate company of Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrator, Tribridge, and helped lead their strategic acquisition to IT services company DXC Technology, in 2017. In that capacity, he led the development of the Concerto Private Cloud with extension into Azure and AWS platforms with the company being recognized as a “Top 15 Cloud Services Provider” and “Coolest Cloud Vendor in the Country” with more than $30 million in revenue. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer & Vice President of DXC Microsoft Americas focused on infrastructure, managed services and cloud solutions for customers throughout the U.S. and is nationally recognized as an expert in the areas of emerging and disruptive technologies.

“Blockchain is poised for explosive growth,” said Pierce. “I couldn’t be happier to be part of one of the leading blockchain success stories in the country.”

“We are thrilled to make this election to our board,” said Rosa Shores, Co-Founder and CEO of BlockSpaces. “Greg’s experienced leadership within the enterprise software space, as well as his success at scaling startup ventures, will be instrumental in helping to lead BlockSpaces through our next phase of growth.”

In conjunction with the election of Pierce, the company introduced a new operating model and 2 additional members of their management team. The new operating model, which is centered on a new product-based business segment, will position the company to have a stronger emphasis on the development of their core Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Harmonia, which is aimed at mid-market companies seeking to integrate blockchain with their legacy systems.

Also joining the team is Charles Dyer, also previously with DXC, who will be taking over the role of Chief Operating Officer, and Chris Tyler, from IBM, who will be leading the company's technology team, as Chief Technology Officer, with their shift to enterprise focused blockchain development. Both Dyer and Tyler bring with them decades of Fortune 200 enterprise software development and product go-to-market experience.

“The opportunity for BlockSpaces now is to scale and support blockchain adoption in the mid-market enterprise with Harmonia." said Dyer. "I’m excited for the opportunity to reinforce and accelerate continued innovation, quality, and growth.”

“I have been working with BlockSpaces for over two years now as an advisor to them and their partner organizations on enterprise blockchain and IBM partner programs,” said Tyler. “They have always been a thought leader in the use of multiple blockchain technologies and I’m excited to be a part of their future. Harmonia will simplify our customers’ adoption of blockchain by easily integrating the multiple systems and processes they use with a variety of blockchain networks, and will allow our customers to fully recognize the benefits promised by these networks.”

BlockSpaces opened its doors in Tampa in late 2017. At that time, co-founders, Rosa Shores and Gabe Higgins, both early adopters of blockchain, saw local demand for a collaborative space dedicated to developers and enthusiasts of the technology. Over the past year, the company has shifted focus to internal product development of enterprise solutions and raised $100,000 from a local angel investor in January. After completing a blockchain based distributed ID Proof of Concept for the Seminole County Tax Collector's office in March, the company had just kicked off a seed round of investment in March when the COVID-19 pandemic closed down their Embarc Collective office in downtown Tampa. “Although the pandemic initially stalled the seed round in Q1, we have seen an uptick in interest around blockchain solutions which added a significant pipeline to our existing funnel and solidified product-market fit for our PaaS integration platform,” said Dyer.

“We have been in this industry since 2012, and our mission has always been to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology to transform business, industry and society,” said co-founder, Gabe Higgins. “As enterprise blockchain adoption continues to explode, we are seeing mid-market companies left under-served and unable to easily integrate with enterprise blockchain solutions and participate in networks that will impact their entire industry. Our new model will allow us to be more nimble and pursue new growth opportunities in a disciplined way that ultimately meets our customers’ needs no matter what stage of development they are in with this transformative technology. We are excited about the plans Greg and our new leadership team members have developed to move BlockSpaces to greater levels of success, as we kick off this capital raise.”

BlockSpaces, based in Tampa, Florida is a blockchain and distributed ledger technology focused product development company that offers end to end business solutions, including blockchain consulting and education, custom full-stack software product development, technical support for enterprise, and community support for a marketplace of blockchain applications. For more information visit blockspaces.io or contact rosa@blockspaces.io