Meet the Team
Bill Decker is a globally recognized executive with a distinguished track record in blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Web3 innovation. With over a decade of leadership across Senior Executive roles—CEO, CMO, and CRO—Bill has built and scaled tech ventures, led digital transformations, and driven strategic exits for high-growth platforms.
As Chief Executive Officer of Next Chain Ventures, Bill has advised and financed more than 40 Web3 startups, providing full-spectrum support from tokenomics to Go to Market strategies and exit planning. His leadership at the Layer 1 blockchain foundations positioned him as a key driver of global partnerships, institutional engagement, and DAO ecosystem development. Prior to that, Bill served as CMO/CRO at EMURGO, the commercial arm of Cardano, where he led adoption campaigns, educational expansion, and NFT product strategy in collaboration with the Cardano Foundation.
A dynamic communicator and public educator, Bill is also the creator and host of Blockchain Minute, a popular media series that demystifies Web3 concepts for a global audience. He has written 5 Books on Blockchain.
Bill holds an MBA from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and a BA in Psychology from Binghamton University, NY. His core expertise includes strategic leadership, token governance design, NFT marketplace development, and international brand strategy. Fluent in cross-cultural communication and deeply embedded in the venture capital ecosystem, Bill is a sought-after advisor and speaker in the blockchain industry.
His unique ability to align business vision with emerging decentralized technologies makes him a powerful catalyst for growth in the evolving digital economy.
Rich Benvin’s leadership brings together an elite team of seasoned professionals including Bill Decker, Dane Christensen, and Drew Foerster, with whom he’s collaborated on multiple ventures. Together, they’re laying the foundation for Blockchain Bob’s ecosystem: launchpads, DEXs, games, NFTs, and a powerful educational hub for the next generation of crypto pioneers.
Rich Benvin began his career in digital marketing back in the 90s after he bought a website from fellow Blockchain Bob founder Dane Christensen. Since then, he has become a seasoned entrepreneur and digital marketing expert, who’s been shaping the online world for over two decades. As the creator of Blockchain Bob, he’s combining education, entertainment, and the Wild West spirit to help onboard the masses into the world of crypto through a learn-to-earn platform, animated videos, a fun token economy ($BOB), and a growing online community.
Over the course of Rich’s illustrious career, he has lead the launch of a DotCom start-up Absolute Authority (along with Dane Christensen), served as Marketing Director at www.handy.de in Hamburg, Germany managing partnerships with Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, operated Mass Density, Inc., a full-service digital solutions company, and served as the CEO of 3D Printing Channel with Bill Decker, where he created a media network of over 30 3D Printing web properties.
Prior to his move into digital marketing, Rich was a world-ranked professional tennis player for several years, and he continues to coach elite players to this day, having coached top 10 world-ranked players.
Dane Christensen made his start in the Web industry back in ‘95 when he cracked open a book named The World Wide Web Unleashed, transformed it into a seminar named the ABC’s of the Internet and a series of workshops, and founded MentorNet – The Internet Living Center in San Francisco, CA.
Entirely self-taught (except for one three-day training in Cold Fusion), Dane mastered building websites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, then building apps on the LAMP stack, then managing web servers, then web analytics, SEO, Search Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Account Based Marketing, Marketing Automation, and pretty much every other skill in the digital space.
After teaching people about the wonders and potential of the Web, Dane was right in the middle of the DotCom Boom (and bust) along with his long-time collaborator, Rich Benvin, after which he began his 25 year career working primarily for Silicon Valley high tech start-ups. In between jobs, Dane has served countless clients ranging from mom-and-pop ecommerce shops to fortune 500 companies, earning over $200K on Upwork while earning Expert-Vetted status and a 100% Job Success rate.
While Dane’s technical skills are impressive, he considers his greatest strengths to be his strategic vision and creativity. He intends to bring all of these talents to bear on the Blockchain Bob project.
Drew Foerster has over two decades of advertising experience. As a Creative Director for DuFour Advertising he oversees the creation and development of all projects for Acuity Insurance as well as serving as their Account Manager. His creative responsibilities also blend into film and video production where he co-writes, directs and produces short and long form videos for his agency’s clients. He is also an optioned screenwriter and several of his scripts are currently being developed by producers in LA and Europe.
Drew has worked on projects for clients like Harley Davidson, Pentair, Wigwam Mills, Sargento, Mercury Marine, Kohler Company, The Original Lava Lamp, and Acuity Insurance. He has won two National ADDY Awards and multiple international marketing and advertising awards. One of his projects, the Acuity Pop-Up Annual Report, was honored by the CLIO Awards and is part of the permanent rare book collection at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
Prior to joining DuFour Advertising, Drew was the Senior Art Director at Marks & Whetstone in Chicago, where he worked on projects for Glen Campbell and other Nashville recording artists, as well as several regional and national retail accounts.
Drew has also worked together with Rich and Dane on various web development projects over the years.