Toni Lane Casserly
Toni Lane Casserly
Toni Lane Casserly (1991 - 2020) was an entrepreneur in the digital currency and blockchain Industry who co-founded CoinTelegraph and CULTU.RE. She died on April 15 of 2020.
She served as an Advisor in several good companies, funds and family offices, Such as SingularityU, Factom, The United Nations, Lykke, HSBC, Bosch, Cicso, P&G, Institute for the Future and St. Gallen Symposium.
Career
Toni Lane Casserly become involved in the Blockchain industry in 2011 and left her fingerprint on many projects in the space.
Entrepreneurship
Toni speaking
Toni at TEDxBerlinSalon: Democracy
In November of 2017, she has been a Advisor at Polymath Network.
In August of 2017, she became an Advisor at Propy.
In May of 2017, she founded CULTU.RE.
In May of 2017, she started as an Advisor at MEI Foundation in San Francisco. She also became an Advisor at Lykke Corp.
In March of 2017, she worked as a Blockchain Expert at the Singularity University and the Institute for the Future.
In May of 2016 she became a Leader of Tomorrow at St. Gallen.
"They represent the most promising young talents from the new breed of entrepreneurs to outstanding academics, professionals, politicians and other smart talent under the age of 30."
From October 2015 to November 2015 she was a Consultant at Mycelium in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In July 2015 she became a Co-founder at Kids Compassion Charity in Sierra Leone. Its achievements include: funding a village to survive through the ebola crisis using bitcoin as a tool for direct response to crisis, putting 14 children through school for two years (including two with disabilities), providing 14 orphans with a home for two years, bringing international charity partners on board to provide funding, support networks and teachers for the children in school, aligning efforts with the local community to extend health initiatives and help improve techniques for extending lifespan, creating sports programs for the kids including football, soccer and beach activities, creating Christmas activities for orphans to make sure they had family experiences after their first year alone, and creating letter writing programs with a sister school in the U.S.. to give the kids a stronger sense of community
In April of 2015 she became an advisor at Spells of Genesis.
Between March 2015 and April 2015 she was a Consultant at Tether (Blockchain) in the Los Angeles area.
Between January 2014 and June 2017, she was a Co-Founder at Bitnation and one of the leaders for humanitarian and human rights efforts. She was passionate about designing systems to help solve human major use cases, like pseudo-anonymous marriage contracts for the 88% of the LGBTQ community living in areas where their union is not yet legal.
"Toni Lane believes the dream of peace is possible, but first, we must evolve human nature and incentive structures."
At Bitnation she was leading investor meetings / investor fielding, recruiting high impact partners (including the bridge between refugees and fortune 100 companies), changing public perception of the brand and protecting the image of the business from trolls. She was also responsible for Government / Institutional / Investor relations and partnerships. Miss Casserly left the organization on principle
In October 2014 she became a Co-founder at CoinTelegraph. During her time there she added 8 properties to their global media group, expanded their offices to 12 countries, increased media group views by over 500x, overall media media views over 5.5 million, and added 20+ ad clients to their roster.
She has also been an Advisor at Factom, Tether, Mycelium and ChangeTip.
From May 2014 and on she began Public speaking at SingularityU, United Nations, Big Think, Institute for the Future, St. Gallen Symposium, SLUSH!, Katapult, Exponential Finance, HATCH! Fair, Developer Week, Bosch Summit, IOT World Forum, DraperU, NABA, Texas Bitcoin Conference, Decentral Talk LIve, CoinCongress, d10E, and many others.
From August 2012 to August 2013 she was a Co-Chief Executive at MMC, the first student run advertising agency in the nation in Austin, TX, where she empowered youth to create advertising for free.
Art
She was a vocalist who performed "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" at the tribute to Leonard Cohen in the Chelsea Hotel.
She was a poet whose first collection was entitled, “EUPHORIA SPEAKING”.
She was a model who has worked with photographers from Vogue Italia, the political Teen Vogue, booooooom and many others.
"Toni enjoys promoting fashion and emotion as art, working with local brands to encourage necessary ethical shifts in manufacturing, or empowering brands who solve major ecological and human rights issues."
Poetry
My Sun [14]
Æ [15]
First Words [16]
Lands End [17]
Asleep [18]
Universal Constant [19]
Updating The Greats [20]
Life is But a Dream [21]
Short stories
Children's Book: Principles of 4 & 8 [9]
Children's Book: Principles of Reincarnation [10]
493 [11]
Young of the Year [12]
Children's Book: Foundations of the Islamic Nation [13]
Volunteer experience
During November 2011-2013 she was a Volunteer at The Contemporary Austin for Arts and Culture.
During November 2011-2013 she was aVolunteer a tE.A.S.T.
Austin Studio Tour for Arts and Culture.
Awards
In April 2012 she received the Brother Dunstan Bowels Persuasive Speaker Award for The Charges in Lifes Battery: Written as a reflection on the necessity of conflict to create change as seen through the experiences of the apartheid era in South Africa.
She advanced to Region and State Choir and was the only woman in her age range to advance to pre-area.
She was called the Best Actress for her performance as Rose Alvarez in Bye, Bye Birdie.
Each semester of college she was honoured to be on the Dean's list.
She received a Honorable Mention from the UIL Texas for her role as Mother Margaret in Cyrano de Bergerac.
She was called the Most Ambitious / Most Likely to Get the Opportunity / Featured Resume by the Texas Advertising Group.
In August 2012 she was called the Outstanding French Scholar.
For four years she had Perfect Scores at Solo and Ensemble.
In May 2013 she received a certificate in Design thinking from the Stanford University.
Death
Since August 2019 she felt unwell.
On April 15th her father broke news about her passing a day before in Texas.[128]
Interesting facts
She has been affectionately entitled, “The Joan of Arc of Blockchain” and “Young Star of Bitcoin” by her peers and various publications
She spent three months in silent, transcendental meditation with a Buddhist monk
She has founded of the “immateralism” (post art) movement where she uses consciousness as a medium