Sam Wellalage , BSC, MA

WIC Search

Your on-demand in-house recruitment team at 80% less cost.

Chief Economist and Recruiter

WorkInCrypto.Global

Scaling Blockchain, Crypto and Web3 Teams Since 2019: Csuit to $100K salaries

Recent appointments: 
Director of Operations: Sport and Blockchain Tech
Head of Business Development: Cloud Startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product 
CTO
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue

Founder and executive search recruiter

ScalingCrypto teams since 2019. Our business has two functions: executive search and 2. Crypto recruitment for mid and junior level roles

Founder

Untapped Future

"untapped Future" is a charity I set up to address my lifelong dream to support underprivileged children. Coming from an underprivileged background, I know how life-changing it is to have equal opportunities for children growing up in underdeveloped countries in Asia. 10% of the business profit from WorkInCrypto.Global goes towards this charity to help identify children with sporting and education talent.

Chief Executive Officer

Scaling Unicorns

Hiring Ops Leaders and Sr Tech for Tech, AI and FinTech industry. Salary ranges from $120K to $400K.

Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and AI, Python Engineers, Data Engineer, Cloud Security, Director, CEO, Full Stack Engineers, Backend Engineer

Founder and Principal Recruiter

5iveTech Recruitment

What makes us different from the rest? It is in the questions we ask and the process we follow! We go beyond checklists and explore what it is actually driving people in their work.  

Track record to date:
Our last 100 placements have a 99% retention rate. 98% of the candidates we've placed in the last 2 years are still in their jobs today. Most of them got promoted

Examples of our placement in the past 12 months (contract and permanents):
Tech Leadership: CTO, Engineering Manager, Head of Development, Tech Architects and Lead Devs 
C-Suit: CEO, Chief Operations Officer, Director of Ops, Head of Client Services
Compliance: Head of Compliance, Director of compliance, AML/KYC/ Crypto specific compliance
Marketing: CMO, Marketing Manager, UX/UI Designer
Sofware Engineering: Blockchain, C#, Java, C++, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Golang, Javascript, React, Gatsby, SOLIDITY, Smart Contracts,PHP

Industries: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management, Banking, Capital Markets, Gaming, Gambling, 

We ask intuitive questions to determine your suitability and we make recommendations based on your skillset. Whether you are a CEO, recruitment head or a junior-level candidate, we provide expert advice which transforms your talent pipeline and careers.

Managing Director and Founder

rethink

I built the Ruby on Rails practice from scratch at Rethink.

Awards and recognitions: Rising Star at Rethink group (London, Birmingham, Manchester and Ireland).

Technology Recruiter

British Transport Police

Human Resource and Resource allocation for London Police

HR Resourcing Officer

Keele University

Recruitment Officer

Sri Lanka Badminton 

I first represented Sri Lanka when I was 12  years old. At the age of 19, I became the national number 1. I was able to travel the world and represent my country. I loved every minute of it. 

Starting out it was hard, financially as well as mentally.  But through hard work, sheer determination and self-belief I overcame every obstacle. I'm blessed to be able to play an individual sport at the highest level, and that experience still shapes me and reassures me that there is nothing you cannot achieve if you beleive!

Professional Athlete

Crypto Executive Search Recruiter | Ex -Pro Athlete | CEO

Separating the good from the great!

I have been scaling Crypto/Blockchain/ Web3 companies since 2019, hiring C-suit to Engineers.

Most roles ranges from $100,000 - $400,00K per year.

Here are some case studies of how I did exemplary work for exemplary people and companies: 

1. I am the exclusive and retained Blockchain recruiter for the PSG football club, one of the world's top 5 best football clubs owned by the government of Qatar. I successfully recruited their first Head of Blockchain to facilitate the club's transition into the Web3 space and help them earn millions of additional revenue streams.

2. I recruited the entire company (C suit, engineers, and ops) for the former chairman of Macquarie Bank Group, who now runs a 12 billion-dollar hedge fund. 

3. I helped another market leader, Chiliz and Socios, hire a Director of Operations for their newly set crypto team and several other roles.

How do I achieve these results?

I use a metric-driven, scientifically designed qualification process that hiring managers and candidates undergo. Thus, I have a 100% success rate over 500 positions filled and a 98% retention rate.  

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Executive Search Recruiter

Executive Search / C-suit Recruitment in  Crypto. Blockchain and Metaverse Sector

Recent appointments: 
Head of Business Development: Web3 startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a crypto payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product - crypto
CTO - crypto
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue last year

Vendible

Vendible Lab's platform and infrastructure provides simple solutions for individuals, communities, and developers that remove complexity to make DeFi accessible for everyone across multiple chains for asset protection. 

Vendible Lab's solutions revolve around decentralized identity and privacy to manage growth, security, and compliance so developers (and enterprises) can build outstanding experiences and scale quickly, reaching any audience with our unique Sovereign model.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/govendible
Discord: https://discord.gg/HYAdytQ2JK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/govendible

COO/CRO

Yukon Media

Fractional Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Growth, Senior sales and market development lead in fintech/blockchain/payments, technology/SaaS, media, medtech sectors. Advisory and interim capacity on scaling software sales, strategic alliances, and accelerating revenues working with Executive team members.  Engaged with co's on strategic growth/bus dev areas in Seed, Ser A/B/C and enterprise co's both domestically and internationally. Helping entities create and unlock their revenue base and value with internal and external growth in current/new vertical areas.  Heavily involved with team mentoring and objective accountability. Holding co for consulting projects when outside of full time engagements--Green Gate Fund--Innovative Senior Living/Housing and WSN--Sports and Education Streaming solution to high schools.

Director of Growth/Sales and Business Development

Signifyd

Signifyd is a leader in AI-based ecommerce fraud protection and chargeback prevention and delivers friction-free buying experiences for online companies.

Angel Investor

Pinnacle Medical Solutions, LLC

Leadership and Medical Sales of Diabetic supplies + Endocrinologists/Nurse Practitioners+staff/Internists/ENT's and their clinics in MS,TN, AR, LA, VA, GA, SC, NC and AL. Turnaround situation-- Strategy and Revenue Growth and team development responsibilities to meet monthly and quarterly revenue/gross margin/MBO objectives. Drove Gross Margin revenues by 35% in yr 1 in this DME sector.  

Managed Care negotiations to enable greater geographic reach for the company.  Outside/Inside Sales/Collections depts oversight to maximize reorders and cash flow.  Work with manufacturer Territory Mgrs and Channel Directors to drive referrals and increase penetration of core Dr clinics. New Product Dev and business planning of additional core products (wound care + urology) to help drive new revenue opportunities. Evaluated 2-3 acquisition/merger targets. Raised funds for growth capital + managed weekly Board meetings.

GM Business Development and Sales

EmergeMemphis

An incubator and accelerator for helping grow early stage companies from launch to self-sustainability. P-L and leadership responsibilities and Board recruitment. An advisor to 100 co's on a variety of areas---fundraising, team dev, sales, financial modeling, strategy, product dev, PR, and technology. Developed corporate relationships where $2,000,000 was raised, as part of an innovation/Labs strategy. Raised Govt and foundational funds to help sustain the organization. Served as Chief Evangelist with customers/recruitment/speaking/funding partners x the Southeast.

President and Board Member

iBeam Broadcasting (Sold to Wiltel)

An internet streaming video company, who was one of the first companies to bring video to the web. Raised 40 million from top tier VC's like Accel, before going IPO. Sales and Bus Dev to enterprise and media clients to sell/advise them on the benefits of this new technology ie MTV/Viacom. Also extensive negotiations/relationship cultivation with ISPs/telcos in the SE region. A quota driven role that was consistently exceeded above 100% with President's Club status reached.

Director of Eastern Region Sales

An entrepreneurial leader with core skills in COO/leadership areas.  Direct experiences in P-L and senior level functions in Business, Operations, and New Market Development, Revenue Acceleration, Sales/Sales leadership, and Strategic Alliances in both US and International markets.

Fully focused on Defi/tokenization/digital wallet applications/decentralized identity and privacy preserving smart contracts. Prior Domain knowledge in technology (SaaS/Fintech/Fraud), healthcare/medtech, and cable/telecom in both enterprise and early stage companies. Big goal is to bring decentralized business models and adoption to everyone...

Specialties: Early stage business (or divisional) validation, Innovation strategist, Building sustainable business models, Team formation and development, MVP creation and scale, and fundraising at concept/Angel/Seed/VC levels.

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