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Personal profile

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Gigo Joseph is working as Vice President of Blockchain services at Chainyard. He has over 25 years of global information technology experience across the US, India & and ME building complex software solutions from ideation to end-of-life.

Before Chainyard, Mr. Joseph worked in multiple roles, from software engineer to CEO of SmartCity (Kochi), where he developed India's first greenfield smart city. Earlier in his career, he worked for Infosys as a Principal Consultant, 3Com as International Product Manager, and IBM as a software engineer. He holds many patents in information technology.

Gigo holds an undergraduate degree from the prestigious NIT Calicut India, MS from DePaul University Chicago, and MBA from Northern Illinois State University. Gigo was a board member in multiple organizations, including educational institutions, a motivational speaker, and a part-time policymaker for the state government.