Raj Chowdhury

Raj Chowdhury is the CEO of HashCash Consultants and a Blockchain pioneer.

Global banks, exchanges, merchants and other Enterprises use HashCash Products for remittance, corporate payment, currency exchange and payment processing. Earlier Chowdhury pioneered the first interbank Trade Finance and Remittance implementations of Blockchain between two of the largest global banks. He is an eminent voice on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies globally and actively engages with policymakers in this area. He is a contributor to Economic Times, Business World, Business Standard, CNNMoney and advises industry leaders in adoption of Blockchain.

He is the author of the books ‘The Dark Secret of the Silicon Valley’ and ‘Special Housing Unit’.

His portfolio of startups are creating Blockchain solutions for financial, supply chain companies, payment processors and cryptocurrency exchanges.

Raj co-founded Power Enhancing Devices, which designed Piezoelectric NEMS applications to harness environmental energy for portable devices.

He co-founded Locus International to generate mapping data for GPS navigation.

Raj had been a research associate at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Lab. He went to Tufts University, Santa Clara University and the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy for MS, MBA and other certifications.

He is a member of Asha Silicon Valley, a nonprofit committed to education for children in emerging countries.