Jim Dolbear is President of Elixxir Corp. which is the creator of David Chaum’s Elixxir Blockchain platform. He also established the Voting Systems Institute with Chaum and USC’s Information Sciences Institute and he was a partner in the Perspectiva Fund focused on developing and exploiting breakthrough optical and augmented reality technology. He earlier ran a 20-person executive search and consulting firm, the Larkin Group, focused on the emerging new media and internet industries. He founded the Digital Coast Roundtable with then Mayor Richard Riordan and also ran LAWNMOWER, a tradeshow and publishing company that held events in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. His clients included Webex, Sun Microsystems, IAC, Microsoft, Activision, Harcourt Brace, Cisco, Exodus, Warner Brothers, andFox Internet Group.