TALENTEXCHANGE

Imagine if you had invested in Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift before they became international sensations...

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Fintech
  • Location Los Angeles, CA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2016
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website thetalentexchange.com

Company Summary

TalentExchange is a financial technology application that allows the public to invest in SEC Regulated stock in a Talent’s career, book Talent directly, and streamline the Talent payment process.

Team

  • Founder & CEO

    Crystal Hayes’ passion for investing in humanity goes far beyond a technology platform. As a former Miss Michigan USA and Miss USA Semifinalist with over 15 years experience in modeling, acting, and hosting she has an experienced the struggle that Talent undergoes when trying to launch a successful career in the entertainment industry. Discovering and mentoring new Talent in the industry became her business and passion ever since.

  • Lucian Cojescu is an innovative and profit-driven senior executive with over 20 years of leading global business and technology operations. Lucian was previously the CIO of Promax BDA. Lucian holds a Presidents and Key Executives (PKE) MBA from the George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management with Pepperdine University, the only MBA program in the world exclusively designed for C-level, senior and business owner executives.

  • Marcus Lopes
    CTO

    Marcus Lopes was an early stage co-founder and former Director of Engineering at Tidy.com. With over 20 years of experience building impactful technologies, Marcus has worked for companies like RED, Ellison, and Boeing.Marcus now serves as the Chief Technology Officer for TalentExchange, Inc.

  • Tim Sehn
    Chief Technology Advisor

    Tim Sehn, former VP of Engineering at Snap, Inc started his career as an intern and eventually became the Director of Amazon within 12 years. In 2013, Tim joined Snapchat and within 4 years, Tim grew the Snapchat engineering team from 10 to 1050 people and scaled the company from 5M to 180M Daily Active Users. Tim Pursued negotiated billion dollar deals with both Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and invented Snapchat Geofilters.

Advisors

  • Brian Major
    Unconfirmed
    Dave Castor
    Unconfirmed
    Carmella Casinelli
    Unconfirmed
  • H H

Previous Investors

  • ACH Ventures
    Unconfirmed
    Robert Novak
    Unconfirmed

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