Bill Zhang

Bill Zhang
Nationality	Canadian
Education	BS Computer Science
Alma mater	Liaoning Normal University
Occupation	Business executive Entrepreneur

Bill Zhang is a Canadian business executive and entrepreneur who is the incumbent chief executive officer of Skychain Technologies. He has more than twenty years of information technology (IT) experience in designing and managing GPU miners.

As an entrepreneur, Bill has founded Mass Containers Ltd, Vling E Business, and MiningSky.

Early life and education

Bill is a graduate of Liaoning Normal University from where he received bachelor’s degree in 1993.

Career

After graduation, he joined the university as a teacher for University Computer Science Curriculum.

In 1995, he became a network administrator for the Agriculture Bank of China and achieved certifications for MCSE and MCSD.

In 2000, he founded his first company, named Vling E Business. He started his work at the company as administrator for Networks, Linux system, Web server, Network security, Windows NT, Windows systems. Later, he assumed a c-suite role at the company and served as a chief executive officer. During his time at the company, he designed, deployed, managed first cryptocurrency data center in P.E.I, Canada with hundreds of open-air rigs for BTC, ETH, Zcash mining; ran cryptocurrency miners in data center using IBM and Lenovo servers; ran servers for gaming from same data center, optimized air flow controls, designed and installed basic electricity equipment; provided Openstack cloud IAAS deployment and cloud server services to clients in Canada, and provided hosting services for ASIC miners.

In 2007, he founded his second company, named Mass Containers Ltd. where he served as a chief executive officer between 2007 and 2008. The company was involved in designing and manufacturing of steel containers.

In 2016, he founded MiningSky where he has been the chief executive officer since 2016. He has designed substations, portable mining racks, mining containers with 3-phase inputs, electricity single line drawings, and deployed transformers; provided power resource trading and efficient power relocation services to VIP clients by communicating with private power providers; set up currency trading platform, security protection, password control, practice pool, private chain, and token designs; designed cryptocurrency mining rigs and motherboards and worked with manufacturer on upgrades; developed proprietary research on cryptocurrency mining.

Since 2015, he has been the chief executive officer of a publicly-listed company, SkyChain Technologies. As an executive, he has conducted research and development (R&D) for GPU rendering node and cluster structure design and completed testing phase; developed upgrades to existing cryptocurrency mining site into Edge computing data center to provide rendering and cloud gaming service; managed projects including Filecoin mining, GPU virtualization for gaming, rendering joint venture, Manitoba cryptocurrency mining facility construction, Quebec facility acquisition, and hosting services.