Jonas Lauren Norr is a Founder at Gravity Ranch. He creates and executes marketing, content, and design campaigns. He is also a Managing Partner at Crypto Lotus Capital, a venture-backed cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Jonas is an active fintech and blockchain thought leader with over 20 years of corporate experience. His personal life as an entrepreneur has allowed him to explore many topics and perspectives. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two young daughters.

His Career Life, Education, and Career Path

Jonas Lauren Norr has been an Entrepreneur, early adopter, and Digital Native since a young age. Jonas is Founder and Managing Partner at Crypto Lotus Capital and Chairman at Gravity Ranch. He also co-founded the Forex trading platform World of Forex in 2011. World of Forex is the world’s first forex trading website by traffic, with over 500K monthly visitors. Jonas founded a celebrity management company in 2010, which helps celebrities pass through the often tricky transition from entertainment to business, such as Lisa Lampanelli, featured on CNBC’s Celebrity Apprentice in 2009. He also created, produced, and starred in the short film “The King’s Origin,” which has been shown around the country.

Jonas Lauren Norr began his career in the corporate world; for a short period, he was a Software Engineer for Telefonica, where he designed and wrote code on the phone systems; this was followed by eight years at Cisco Systems, where he executed global business strategies. He then went on to help build and launch two FinTech startups. One of these companies was a financial analytics company that became the leader in its category, while the other was a forex trading website that processed over $1 Billion per year.

Jonas Lauren Norr has spoken about Blockchain technology at various conferences and events for over a decade. Jonas was an invited speaker to the Bitcoin 2013 conference, CoinSummit, and backed by Mastercoin Foundation as a Lead Truth Author, which allowed him to present his views on the importance of blockchain technology and explain many of the flaws with existing protocols. He has also been interviewed on CNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg, CBS Radio, and many more media outlets and has written extensively on Bitcoin and Blockchain topics.

Jonas Lauren Norr has been an active promoter of Bitcoin since 2011, including speaking at conferences across North America, such as Scaling Toronto in 2012 and C4C- Commercial 4 Commerce in Las Vegas. In 2014, he was featured in a Bitcoin documentary on CNBC with Michael Santo.

After this feature, the documentary was broadcast and released as a part of the New York Television Festival. The film took 1st prize in this festival with over 18 million viewers.

Jonas also speaks at BlockShow Europe, CoinSummit, and FinTech Forum conferences. He has featured his work in Fortune Magazine, Fox Business News, and more recently, CNBC’s new Encore format commercial news show: Paid Off with Lisa Ling.

Jonas is the Founding Chairman of Gravity Ranch, an accelerator for early-stage startups seeking to build blockchain or cryptocurrency companies with access to world-class mentors and resources.