Michael Terpin is a serial entrepreneur who has founded leading companies in public relations, internet marketing, digital innovation, cryptocurrency, and newswire distribution. He is well known for his current role as the Founder and CEO of Transform PR, the world leader in blockchain and Initial Coin Offering (ICO) PR and advisory services which has represented more than 40 ICOs. Terpin is also known for co-founding Marketwired the first Internet-based company newswire, which was acquired for over $35 million in 2006.

Michael Terpin holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from SUNY at Buffalo and a dual bachelor degree in Newspaper journalism and English literature from Syracuse University. He serves as an advisor to SU’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he was inducted into its prestigious “Wall of Fame” in October 2000.

Michael Terpin has been the CEO of Terpin Communications (previously The Terpin Group, prior to 2001 sale to Morgen-Walke/Lighthouse, now Financial Dynamics) since January, 1990.

The company was one of the first PR firms to specialize in new media and technological convergence PR, going back to the earliest days of multimedia and the Web. The firm's earliest success stories included the launch of the Motley Fool, America Online Greenhouse and EarthLink, which only had three employees at the time.

The firm later pivoted to become a PR firm specializing in emerging technologies and market entry, with a solid portfolio of Web 2.0 and enterprise software clients. The company is interested in finding the next AOL s and EarthLink s and helping them scale which sometimes involves Terpin investing in them, typically in the form of a bridge loan for services. Terpin Communications was featured in an Inc. magazine cover story for this successful strategy. Terpin Communications, Inc., later became a sister holding company alongside Transform Group, which is Michael Terpin's primary brand.

In 1994, Michel Terpin founded Internet Wire now known as Marketwired the first Internet-based company newswire. Terpin's inspiration for creating the world's first Internet-based press releases network was the number of complaints he received from journalists who would have to retype press releases faxed to them by the incumbent press release newswires of the day, which were only real-time and marginally digital if you were a member of the Associated Press, which meant that most trade publications got faxes instead.

He later spun off the company in 1999 and raised $18 million from top-tier investors including Hummer Winblad and Sequoia Capital. In 18 months, the company's revenues had grown by more than 4,000 percent and the team had grown to 135 people. Following a strategic investment by NASDAQ in 2003, the company became Market Wire (now Marketwired). They sold the firm to CCN/Matthews the premier company newswire and media directory in Canada in April, 2006 for $35 million, which in turn was sold to OMERS Capital Partners in December, 2006, for more than $100 million. Marketwired was the sold to the NASDAQ in February, 2016.

Transform Group is a holding company founded and lead by Michael Terpin formed in January, 2014 which owns three companies, SocialRadius, Transform PR, and Transform Events.

In August, 2006 Michael Terpin founded SocialRadius, one of the first social media marketing firm in the United States.

The firm has an international client base and offers services including strategic "thought leader" blog creation and execution; blogger outreach campaigns and ongoing blogger relations; plus social network and viral video marketing. SocialRadius' client roster has included AT&T, Bombay Sapphire, Constant Contact, David Lynch Foundation, Kawai, Philips, and Shapeways. One of the company's biggest successes was the launch and viral seeding of the "Yes We Can" video by Will.i.am, which won both an Emmy and a Webby.

In January, 2014 Michael Terpin founded Transform PR as well as the Transform Group holding company.

Transform PR is a PR firm with a focus on thought leadership, new paradigms and markets (including 3D, big data, Bitcoin, digital media, mobile, and robotics). Transform is based on a data-driven, “digital first” approach to traditional public relations challenges, leveraging deep industry relationships and domain expertise to arrive at solutions that are trackable, repeatable and more predictable than traditional PR has been to date. Transform has quickly established itself as the leading PR firm for the digital currency industry, representing more than a dozen leading cryptocurrency companies, including Bitcoin Shop, Gyft, Kraken (bitcoin exchange), KnCMIner, KryptoKit, MaidSafe, and Mastercoin. The firm has also represented more than 40 ICOs. Transform PR works hand-in-hand with Transform Group's pioneering social media division, SocialRadius, to create breakthrough campaigns for clients ranging from Fortune 500 brands like AT&T and Philips to fast-moving emerging technology companies.

In January, 2014 Michael Terpin also founded Transform Events an events company with two current properties.

The firm runs Startup Debut the premiere media showcase for startups at major technology industry confabs, including CES and South by Southwest, where it is Official Media Showcase. The firm also runs CoinAgenda, the first exclusive conference for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investors, which first took place October 7-9, 2014, in Las Vegas.

In May, 2013 Michael Terpin co-founded BitAngels, the first angel investor group focused on identifying, funding and mentoring seed- and early-stage startups in the digital currency space, including Bitcoin. A cocktail conversation with co-founder David Johnston grew to 35-person kickoff meeting at Bitcoin 2013 conference in first 24 hours, then 100 members and more than $10 million in soft-circled funding commitments in first two weeks. In its first year, the decentralized group screened more than 200 companies, made 45 presentations and participated in the funding of 12 companies, including Blueseed, Cash into Coins (now Expresscoin), GoCoin and Mastercoin. In June, 2014, he took over as Chairman of BitAngels and moved its corporate headquarters to Las Vegas. In 2014 the group reached more than 500 members.

In July, 2014 Terpin founded, Flight.VC

(Bitcoin Syndicate) the first and largest angel syndicate for investing in bitcoin- and cryptocurrency related companies. His

two other partners in the venture are Nick Sullivan, founder/CEO of ChangeTip, and Gil Penchina, the #1 angel on AngelList, whose Flight.VC has more than a dozen syndicates on AngelList. In 2014, the syndicate completed their participation in three high-profile deals (Blockstream, Bonadide, and GoCoin). The syndicate has been one of the top 20 syndicates (and often in the top 10) since its founding, with nearly $1 million per deal in soft-circle backing.

In 2015, Michael Terpin co-founded bCommerce Labs, an ecommerce bitcoin company incubator, which has launched its first company (Crytpomarket) and soon its first ICO. In 2017, he joined Alphabit Fund, a $300 million digital currency fund, as special advisor, CMO and head of their ICO investment committee. In 2017, he became an advisor to ICOBox, a new platform that helps anyone with a great concept or asset do an end-to-end ICO for equity and/or low fees.

Michael Terpin has spoken widely on bitcoin at leading conferences globally, including Bitcoin 2014, BitFin, CoinAgenda, Coin Congress, CoinSummit, Inside Bitcoins (Berlin, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, NY), La BitConf (Brazil), North American Bitcoin Show, Satoshi Roundtable, South by Southwest and TEDx Hollywood.

Since October, 2013 Michael Terpin has served as the Chairman and CMO of CommPro Global (www.commpro.biz) the leading one-stop digital destination for professionals in the public relations, investor relations, corporate communications, social media and digital advertising fields.

The company is based in New York City, with a global readership, including more than 70,000 email subscribers. Terpin joined the company after the founder/CEO Fay Shapiro who he has known for more than a decade asked him if he would join.

In August, 2015 Terpin founded Marketeeria a platform he built to connect independent marketers in the PR, IR, advertising, branding, marketing strategy, product marketing and other marketing fields with companies looking to hire them.

In August, 2016 he decided to pause the business to focus on opportunities in cryptocurrency.

Michael Terpin is the only PR executive to be twice named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s list of the most influential technology leaders. He was a finalist in the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has also been profiled in PRWeek and O’Dwyer’s PR Report, and has been a guest columnist for O’Dwyer’s PR Daily.