Bob Stewart is a serial CTO and founder of Apex Velocity Catalyst. He served as CTO at Dell EMC's Global Security Group and Motorola's Internet & Networking Group, was elected Chairman of the Board at ACRES overseeing $140M in clinical research technology, built the world's first blockchain-based online voting platform at Votem, and led biometric security at Sonavation. He also ran tech due diligence at CMGI during the dot-com era, including the acquisition of Elon Musk's first company Zip2.

Bob's crucible: after pouring nearly two decades of IP into a blockchain-based platform for ethical medical records and clinical trial compliance, an activist investor tried to strong-arm him out. When Bob pushed back, the threats got personal. He chose to shut the whole thing down rather than hand control to bad actors and betray the people who tru ...