Mark Anthony Hill II

Blockchain Advocate & Investor / UI + UX Designer / Options Trader
https://medium.com/@richmarkcapital

Passionate about learning new protocols to sharpen my skills & understanding of innovations in blockchain. I enjoy researching & uncovering new use cases for crypto projects/products and understanding how they'll effect the adoption of crypto/web3. Expecting myself to be a 'Head of Product' or 'Venture Lead' that solves real problems and helps deliver products & user experiences that help onboard the next 100 million crypto users.

  Atlanta, GA, USA      

Work Experience

Co-Founder/Partner  •  RichMark Capital

September 2017 - Present

• Lead in the research & assessment of infrastructure crypto projects across multiple sectors. 

• Make investment recommendations on which protocols/projects have growing developer / user communities. 

• Conduct due diligence on projects within the investment pipeline. 

• Publish weekly research reports giving investors an overview of projects, use cases, market cap evaluation, moat factors & more. The weekly research reports are released on Medium, Twitter, LinkedIn & RichMark.Capital. 

• Attend conferences / panels & speak publicly on crypto topics (ie. Bitcoin Conference, EthDenver, Linqto, Global Investor Conference, Permissionless, etc.) 

• Evaluate emerging trends, narratives, technologies, & opportunities & key value drivers. 

• Lead & executed over 48 early stage token investments over the past 12 months. 

• Advise founders on tokenomics, make intros to influencers/outlets, product features, rollout & user experience. 

• Blockchain advocate and community contributor via Twitter, Medium, Youtube & Discord.

Co-Founder  •  Beverly Lane / HXB

January 2008 - September 2017

• Lead an international team of 11 in growing the brand to over 30,000 customers.

• Brokered a key partnership with the largest hair care distributor in the USA (TWT) and took their 30-year retail business online. This more than doubled their overall revenue and ours.  

• Oversaw the overall brand strategy for Beverly Lane / HXB women's online apparel & beauty divisions. 

• Lead in the creation of new strategies to distribute apparel via video, social media & chat platforms. 

• Directed the UI/UX design team for mobile & web.

• Created new interactive initiatives to involve crowdsourcing not only in the selection of what apparel we released, but in the creation and distribution of it as well. 

• Lead growth by over 371% by expanding through Amazon FBA.  

Head of UI / UX Design  •  Interface Labs

June 2004 - January 2008

• Lead in UI/UX design, prototyping, wireframe creation and overall brand identity for multiple web/mobile applications for clients across 5 continents. 

• Helped new clients by creating 'mind maps' giving them an overview of how we saw the brand and how the applications we were building would grow their current business. 

• Delivered easy to use, beautifully designed user interfaces that have been downloaded and used by over 100,000 + users. 

• Delivered over 50+ final user experiences for iPhone / Android / Web. 

• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere & Premiere Rush.

• Helped our dev teams improve product delivery milestones by 35%.

Education

1999 - 2004

The Ohio State University

Bachelor of Arts , History

Skills


  • Research
  • Blockchain
  • Deployment
  • Marketing
  • Internet
  • Finance
  • Buying
  • Social Media Platforms
  • Cryptocurrency 
  • Trading
  • UI/UX Design
  • Product Design
  • Portfolio Management
  • Portfolio Creation
  • Initiative
  • Operations
  • Project Management
  • Developing

Languages


  • English — Native or Bilingual