Marcello Mari is the CEO and founder of SingularityDAO, a blockchain protocol designed to manage portfolios of crypto assets in a non-custodial fashion.
Under his management, SingularityDAO has grown to a team of 40+ members and has successfully shipped 2 product iterations in less than one year.
Prior to that Marcello was the lead PR director at the SingularityNET foundation, managing several of the world’s leading crypto PR firms, and was ultimately responsible for making Sophia the Robot a worldwide celebrity.
Marcello is also responsible for coordinating the first ever NFT artwork collaboration between a human (Andrea Bonaceto) and an Artificial Intelligence (Sophia the Robot). The collection, featuring his portrait, collected over 1.4mln USD.
He began his career in Marketing in London where he was also a regular contributor to TechCrunch, Wired Italy, and several other startup-focused Italian publications. The Guardian has also featured his research work.
Marcello has also been a speaker at TEDx on two occasions and featured by CNN for his work in conjunction with blockchain and AI.
