Victory Square Adds Co-Founder of the BTL Group, Guy Halford-Thompson, as Strategic Advisor to Accelerate Growth of Its Block...
14 Dezember 2017 - 9:01AM
Victory Square Technologies Inc. ("
Victory Square"
or the "
Company") (CSE:VST) (OTC:VSQTF) (FWB:6F6)
is pleased to announce the appointment of Guy Halford-Thompson,
co-founder of BTL Group (TSX-V:BTL) (OTC:BTLLF) to its Advisory
Board. Mr. Halford-Thompson is a globally recognized pioneer and
visionary in blockchain technology and will play a key role in
growing and scaling Victory Square’s current portfolio of
blockchain companies.
Victory Square has been a long-time supporter of
Halford-Thompson’s vision for incorporating blockchain technology
into enterprise business, having invested in and incubated his
company, the BTL Group three years ago. BTL Group was the first
publicly traded blockchain company in Canada and has grown to a
market cap of $250M on the TSX Venture Exchange. The product BTL is
best known for, Interbit, a blockchain development platform that
leverages cutting edge tools to empower developers to build
enterprise-grade blockchain-based applications. BTL has partnered
with large institutions like Visa and BP to further explore the
potential for private blockchains to reduce cost and increase
efficiency.
“Guy has been a thought-leader in the blockchain
space for years and has had tremendous success building one of
Canada’s premier blockchain companies, the BTL Group,” said Shafin
Diamond Tejani, Chief Executive Officer of Victory Square. “We are
extremely excited and fortunate to have him join Victory Square due
to his extraordinary vision and foresight on how blockchain will
disrupt verticals that our portfolio companies operate in, such as
Gaming, Health, Fintech, VR/AR/MR, and AI.”
Mr. Halford-Thompson will immediately begin
advising VST portfolio companies Blockchain Assembly and FansUnite
grow and scale their businesses, and will play a strategic role in
Victory Square’s new partnership with the Blockchain Investment
Consortium to identify the most promising and disruptive blockchain
companies around the world.
“Victory Square played a key part helping BTL
scale in its early days, and I’m extremely excited to join the team
as an advisor,” said Mr. Halford-Thompson. “The leadership group at
Victory Square has consistently shown an ability to identify large
market opportunities, as well as the right teams to capitalize on
them. They give them the funding, resources and relationships
required to accelerate their growth and allow them to scale
internationally.”
For further information about the
Company, please contact:Howard Blank,
DirectorEmail: ir@victorysquare.com
Telephone: 604-928-6066
ABOUT VICTORY SQUARE TECHNOLOGIES
INC.Victory Square is a venture builder that creates,
funds and empowers entrepreneurs predominantly focused on
Blockchain Technology, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence,
Personalized Health, Gaming and Film. As a technology incubator,
Victory Square invests in game-changing entrepreneurs who are
provided access to education programs, global mentorship networks,
distribution partners, creative workspaces, resources and other
forms of operational support to help them scale internationally.
For more information, please visit www.victorysquare.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATIONThis
news release may include forward-looking information within the
meaning of Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business
of Victory Square. Forward-looking information is based on certain
key expectations and assumptions made by the management of Victory
Square, including future plans. Although Victory Square believes
that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking
information is based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be
placed on the forward-looking information because Victory Square
can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Forward-
looking statements contained in this news release are made as of
the date of this news release. Victory Square disclaims any intent
or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking information,
whether because of new information, future events or results or
otherwise, other than as required by applicable securities
laws.
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