Nick Gogerty is a financial and technology expert who invented the Solarcoin global solar energy reward system based on low carbon blockchain technology. Solarcoin is now distributed in 41 countries, is fully convertible into major world currencies and trades 24/7. IN 2017 he won the MIT Solve Challenge for Chronic Disease at the UN for the healthcoin concept.  In 2016 his Electraseed concept for solar energy nano-grids to help the emerging world won an Energy unlocked prize at UN COP 22 in Marrakech.

He has advised the UNEP, UNDP, UNFCCC and G20 on blockchain technology and green finance. He has worked for some of the world’s largest banks and hedge funds and is an ivy league published author The Nature of Value 2014 Columbia University. He guest lectures in the Executive MBA program at Columbia University in the value investing program.

He currently serves as Sr. advisor to Solarcoin and as Chief Strategist for the Lykke exchange based in Switzerland.

He holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on economic sustainability from the University of Iowa, and an MBA from Ecole de Ponts ET Chausses, Paris, France. He has held Series 3, 7, 63 & FSA licenses and the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) designation. After living in 6 countries he has settled down in the greater New York area with his family.