Aaron McDonald

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Aaron McDonald

Futureverse Co-Founder & CEO

Aaron McDonald is a 20+ year technology industry veteran and serial entrepreneur with experience managing portfolios with over $1B in revenue. Aaron has long been an innovator with his eye on the future – from leading the market in telecommunications to now leading innovation in Web3. Aaron is the founder of multiple metaverse companies developed independently, but now rolled up under one umbrella entity, an open metaverse powerhouse, Futureverse.

As Co-Founder of Futureverse, Co-Founder Centrality, General Partner at NetX ventures and D64 Ventures, Co-Founder of Non-Fungible Labs and Co-Founder of Altered State Machine, McDonald is responsible for some of today’s largest NFT collections and most innovative blockchain and Web3
technology. In 2019, Aaron was named Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year and recognized by IDG as one of the Top 50 Technology Leaders.

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Panel: ANZ Unicorn Co-Founders Hosted by King River Capital

TUE, OCT 17, 10:00 AM
Conference
Chris Barter, Sydney-based co-founder of King River Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in Software and AI Technology companies, will moderate a panel of unicorn co-founders from Australia and New Zealand. The panelists - Robbie Ferguson (Immutable), Gus McDonald (Cover Genius), and Aaron McDonald (FutureVerse) - will share their remarkable stories of growth and thoughts on what the future may have in store.
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