# Kevin Nielsen

**Founder and CEO** — New York City, NY, United States

> Founder and product leader with 8+ years building technical products and teams across digital-asset platforms and enterprise software. Currently building Superfan, a platform where communities commission and fund creative work.

Career Archetype: **Launchpad Navigator** (HS-DG) — One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinknielsen
- Substack: https://governance.substack.com/
- Twitter: https://x.com/kevinknielsen

## Experience

### Founder and CEO, Superfan (Works) (2025-01 – present)
New York, NY · Founded Superfan, a platform where communities commission and fund creative work. Secured a $250,000 pre-seed investment through Colosseum. Build the product daily, designing and iterating on API-driven AI desks for research, marketing, fundraising, and revenue analysis with persistent context, scoped tools, and human approval gates.

### Founder and CEO, Boardroom Labs (2020-08 – 2024-12)
United States · Founded and scaled a data platform for digital-asset organizations; raised $4.5M and reached a $34M valuation. Led a 15-person product, engineering, and growth team. Scaled adoption to 350+ organizations and 100K+ monthly users before acquisition by Agora. Owned dashboards, APIs, and voting workflows, translating complex governance data into usable experiences.

### Senior BD and Venture Associate, TQ Tezos (2019-05 – 2020-07)
San Francisco, CA / New York, NY · Evaluated venture and product opportunities for the Tezos blockchain ecosystem, presenting market, technical, and investment analysis to the Investment Committee. Closed $1.7M+ in deals and developed partnership frameworks across 15+ ecosystem organizations globally.

### Ecosystem Development, Blockfolio (2018-01 – 2019-02)
Los Angeles, California · Blockfolio is the leading network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management with over 5 Million downloads.

### Business Analytics & Big Data Consultant, Oracle (2017-06 – 2017-12)
Redwood Shores, California · Managed an $8M enterprise pipeline and closed more than $2M in analytics and cloud sales within Business Intelligence, Analytics & Big Data, and Oracle Integrated Cloud Solutions. Worked with Fortune 500 stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.

## Education

### Bachelor of Science in SC Johnson College of Business, Minor in Music, Cornell University (2013-01 – 2017-01)
Activities and societies: Pillsbury Institute for Entrepreneurship, Alpha Delta Phi, eLab Accelerator

### International Baccalaureate, International College Spain ICS (2000-09 – 2013-05)

## Projects

### Capitol Records 360 Innovation Lab & Hackathon
Capitol Music Group's launch of the Capitol Innovation Center (CIC), a space to conduct programming events to help foster innovative ideas between content creators, the tech community, and students, inspiring the next generation of leaders in the music industry.

## Skills

Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Finance, Accounting, Corporate Finance, New Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Inventory Management, Sales Management, Product Management, Strategy, Ethereum, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Blockchain, Microsoft PowerPoint, International, DCF Valuation, Regression Analysis, Profit Maximization, Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Product Strategy, Discovery, Roadmaps, Workflow Design, Prototyping, Commercialization, Launch, Adoption, Leadership, Team Building, Engineering Management, Growth, Partnership Development, Data Products, APIs, Dashboards, User Experience Design, Claude, Codex, OpenAI API, TypeScript, React, SQL, Supabase, Amplitude, Tezos, Digital Assets, Enterprise Software, Spanish, Danish

## Credentials

- **Winner of the Capitol Music Group Inaugural 'Capitol Royale'** — Capitol Records & Ujo Music (issued 2018-12)
- **Winner of the ETH San Francisco (ETH Global) Hackathon** — ETH Global (issued 2018-10)
- **Junior Achievement Europe Finalists** — Junior Achievement (issued 2012-09)
- **Virtual Business Challenge Finalist** — Junior Achievement Europe (issued 2012-05)
- **Global Scholar to represent Spain at the Global Young Leaders Conference** — Congressional Youth Leadership Council (issued 2011-04)

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