George Whitfield

Co-Founder and CEO, HodlPal

Boston

George is the co-founder and CEO of HodlPal, a social trading platform for cryptocurrency, which seeks to empower everyone to make smarter investments by working together. By integrating social connectivity with automated trading and analysis, HodlPal is driving the evolution of a more inclusive society based on core values of freedom, diligence, and responsibility. George is a serial entrepreneur with three degrees from MIT: a BS in Computer Science ’03 and an MEng ’04 and PhD ’12 in Materials Science and Engineering. He is passionate about building software that improves people’s lives, and his career has spanned computational aspects of FinTech, robotics, transportation, renewable energy, and environmental protection. George was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the inaugural MIT Entrepreneurship and FinTech Integrator at the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node in August of 2018. George has been a guest lecturer at MIT for the past four years and recently represented HodlPal at Venture Cafe's Demo Night event during Boston FinTech Week in September 2018. Prior to HodlPal, George was the Director of Simulation at Nucleus Scientific, where he joined as an early employee and helped grow the company by 10x in size over the course of seven years. While in the PhD program at MIT, George co-founded and was CEO of SunPoint, a solar tracking company that won the 2008 MIT Making and Designing Materials Engineering Competition and the 2009 Renewables Track of the MIT Clean Energy Prize. Prior to SunPoint George also co-founded Socially Conscious Software to develop mobile apps in the early days of the iPhone App Store. Lastly, George is the co-inventor on four patents involving novel actuator technologies.