Joe Ward

Joe Ward (born 1972) is an Australian-Dutch serial entrepreneur, network engineer, and author. He is the founder of Acceleration Bay, a firm that creates and invests in Intellectual Property-based business ventures. Ward founded CryptoDebt, a financial services platform that is best known for its tokenized debt offerings. He was the co-founder of Food Water Shelter, a non-profit organization that builds and manages eco-friendly villages in Tanzania.
Ward specializes in B2B enterprise ventures and has over 30 years of experience in the media and technology sector. He has worked with leading technology firms such as News Corp, McDonalds, Hyatt Hotels, amongst others. Ward has been featured in several media outlets including Live Wire Markets, TV Technology, Business Wire, and others.
 
== Early life and education ==
Ward was born in 1972. Ward was a guest lecturer for the Business Administration program from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management(MGSM) where he is now President, of the MGSM Alumni in Silicon Valley.
== Career ==
Ward started his career in 1990, when he joined the Australian Consolidated Press(ACP) as a network engineer. Ward worked for two years with this firm, during which he was responsible for 21 Novell File servers and managed desktop publishing. Ward, along with his work peers, engineered and maintained the largest computer-based publishing network in the Southern Hemisphere.
In 1992, Ward joined Oz Email, where he worked for two years on strategy, product design, customer relations, and investor presentations, which attracted Trevor Kennedy and (now former Prime Minister of Australia), Malcolm Turnbull.
Ward co-founded Marketboomer, a computer software company in 1997 with Nathan Gyaneshwa. Ward worked for four years at this firm, during which the company raised $7M in capital from St George Bank and Menzies technologies in Switzerland. Then Prime Minister, John Howard officially opened the new Marketboomer global headquarters in North Ryde, Sydney Australia in 2003. 
In 2002, Ward was appointed as the CEO of Workstar, Asia-Pacific's largest online training and recruitment company. Ward worked for over five years with this firm, during which the company’s revenue hiked from $300k to $19M through a series of acquisitions and organic sales growth in the retail sector. In 2003, Workstar and its client, Rebel Sport, won the national HR Awards for the deployment of RebelUni on the Workstar platform and the sales performance as a result of the deployment. 
In 2008, Ward co-founded Food Water Shelter, a non-profit organization that works in the poverty-stricken areas of Tanzania where he remained until 2018. 
In 2010, Ward founded Groovy Corp in Australia and relocated the organisation to Silicon Valley when Intel Capital stepped in to support the enterprise by way of becoming an Intel Capital portfolio organisation and later closed a $5M Series A investment from SK Telecom, ATA Ventures Silicon Valley, Qualcomm Ventures. The company then rebranded to Argyle Data where Ward worked for over four years with this firm, during which he was responsible for the Major strategic partner's development, M&A activity, and Ecosystem Development. Argyle was acquired in 2018 by Texas-based Mavenir. 
In 2014, Ward founded Acceleration Bay, a firm that creates and invests in business ventures headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with $15M funding from NY-based alternative assets investor. Acceleration Bay became notable for its spin-out deal with The Boeing Company where the company later sued Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts and Take Two Interactive for patent infringement based on the patents purchased to incubate his the company’s new mesh networking ventures, Edge Video and PhoneTorrent. 
In 2013, Ward founded xTV Networks, a Silicon-Valley based Cloud TV networking firm, raising $5M in financing. xTV listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and had an Initial Public Offering for $6M in 2015. xTV later signed a landmark deal with AT&T for $94.5M in 2016. 
Ward founded Edge Video Inc. in 2018. It is an IT company that specializes in serverless live-streaming. In the same year, Ward was appointed as the president of the Silicon Valley Chapter at the MGSM Alumni Association. 
In 2019, Ward founded CryptoDebt, a lending platform based on tokenized debt services.
In 2020, Ward became a part-time strategic advisor at the Mariners Point Golf Course & Driving in Foster City, California.
== In the media ==
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== External links ==
* Official Website
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