Daniel Barankin is the founding Chief Executive Officer of 6ix.
6ix is a financial technology company on a mission to unlock social mobility on a global scale by empowering anyone, from anywhere, to invest in anything.
In pursuit of that mission, from Jul 01, 2020, to date, 6ix.com powered 300+ virtual investment summits, attracting 65,000 registrations and 21,000 attendances from a community of more than 100,000 investors.
Daniel launched 6ix on Canada Day 2016 while studying philosophy, politics, anthropology, and other courses, at the University of Toronto, Trinity College.
Mr Lasky’s career spans 30 years as a production, management and marketing executive, which includes extensive experience in finance and operations to creative direction. Having begun his post college career as a Media Buyer at BD Advertising, he soon relocated to Los Angeles, and in 1995 launched his very own production company called Pikesville Pictures, which produced a multitude of Commercials, infomercials documentaries, shorts and feature films. During this time there were multiple accolades and awards including being a three-time winner of the prestigious NIMA award for Best Infomercial Production, Best Infomercial Script & Best Direct Response Show. Having Produced some of the most successful infomercials in history, his productions grossed well over $1 Billion in sales. More recently, Mr. Lasky caught the entrepreneurial bug and was the founder or a senior partner in several startups including a tech company called Peer to Peer Network and a Real Estate referral service called Agent Corner. For these ventures his duties included fund raising, running operations and having oversight of all marketing activities.
Mr. Lasky has a proven track record of creating strong working relationships with potential partners and investors that lead to successful fundraising efforts, and successfully managing finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions efforts. He also has expertise conceptualizing, developing, producing, and directing a variety of productions, from full-length feature films to commercials and infomercials. He’s particularly proficient in creating value in productions, showcasing high-quality projects for low to medium budgets.
Mr. Lasky has a B.S.M degree with concentrations in both Marketing and Finance from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and attended post graduate Film Studies at USC Film School.
Michael Gord was one of the first advocates for digital assets in Canada and built the first university communities for blockchains in Canada. He is also the COO of Metaverse Group Ltd.
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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Daniel Berwick and I'm your host today, CEO and founder of 6. And it's my great pleasure to introduce our panelists Speaker 1: at Beyond Blockchain. Speaker 1: We have Chris, Mark, and Michael. Speaker 1: In terms of today's panel, I just wanna do some general housekeeping real quick. Speaker 1: 1st order of business is that this is a live interactive panel. So we're all here with you right now in real time. What that means is you can use the public chat and we will see it. You can submit questions to the Q&A. You can also submit questions into the chat and you'll notice that it'll probably disappear and move to the Q&A. Speaker 1: All of these questions are going to be... We'll do our best to answer all of these questions Speaker 1: throughout the panel towards the end. Speaker 1: In terms of the format for today's panel, there are 3 main components. Speaker 1: The 1st bit is to begin with introductions. So everyone, all the speakers will have an opportunity to introduce themselves, their projects, and their thesis to the Web3 space. Speaker 1: Then we're gonna move on to some broad panel discussions, Speaker 1: mostly themes around the future of Web3. We're going to be looking at debates like C5 or C5, Speaker 1: talking about things like the Bitcoin Lightning Network, exploring things like NFT decoupling from crypto, global adoption, compliance, Speaker 1: metaverse, Speaker 1: and B2B applications in the blockchain and various other themes as well, as I'm sure that the conversations will evolve. Speaker 1: And then we'll move lastly into the open Q&A. Speaker 1: And so With that bit of housekeeping in mind, I'll also highlight that you can access handouts. Speaker 1: You'll notice in the handouts, we have a number of things you can dow...
