Clifford Sarkin

Cliff joined Scalio's Advisory Board in 2014. As a long time advisor and confidant in business strategy and legal matters, he's played a critical role in Scalio's past and present successes.

Cliff is a strategic advisor to technology leaders of major blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. An attorney and seasoned executive, he has deep expertise in emerging technologies, corporate law, transactions, M&A, private equity and venture capital. Cliff is currently COO of CasperLabs, a startup building an open-source blockchain platform aimed to achieve scale without sacrificing decentralization.

Prior to his work with distributed ledger technologies, Cliff served as legal counsel and business operations executive for three Internet startups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Among several notable accomplishments, Cliff led VideoSurf's $80M cash acquisition by Microsoft in 2011.

Cliff received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley.