Alex Tapscott

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Alex Tapscott
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Tapscott in 2023
Born1986 (age 38–39)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)CEO, CMCC Global Capital Markets
Parent(s) Don Tapscott, Ana Paula Lopes
Website www.alextapscott.com

Alex Tapscott (born 1986) is a Canadian cryptocurrency investor and writer. [1]

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He was the CEO and founder of NextBlock Global, a Canadian cryptocurrency investment company which shut down in 2017, [2] and is the co-founder, with his father Don Tapscott, of the Blockchain Research Institute. [3] [4]

Early life and education

Tapscott was born in Toronto and attended Upper Canada College. [5] Tapscott was a member and captain of the Canadian Men's Rugby Under-21 Team in 2006 and 2007. [6] [7] He holds a BA in Law, Jurisprudence and Social thought from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he graduated in 2008. [8]

Career

Tapscott co-authored, with his father Don Tapscott, the 2016 book Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. [9] The book became a The Globe and Mail as well as Toronto Star bestseller. [10] Financial Times reviewed the book and wrote "The Tapscotts provide a thorough, balanced and enlightening guide to the next big thing",. [1]

Tapscott sits on the Advisory Board to Elections Canada, a non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums. [11] [ non-primary source needed ]

In the summer of 2016, Tapscott co-convened a meeting of blockchain stakeholders in Muskoka, Ontario to discuss governance of the whole blockchain ecosystem. [12] [13]

On November 5, 2017, he announced that NextBlock was forced to scrap IPO plans due to being dropped by their underwriter, CIBC, after the company is reported to have made false and misleading statements in its marketing materials. [14] Tapscott and NextBlock settled charges with the SEC in 2019. [2]

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  1. 1 2 Gapper, John (May 18, 2016). "Review — 'Blockchain Revolution', by Don and Alex Tapscott". Financial Times. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "SEC Charges Company Formed to Invest in Blockchain Technology and Its Former CEO". SEC.gov. May 14, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  3. ↑ Yuhas, Alan (November 24, 2020). "Who Will Miss the Coins When They're Gone?". The New York Times . Retrieved November 10, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ Tapscott, Alex; Tapscott, Don (March 1, 2017). "How Blockchain Is Changing Finance". Harvard Business Review . Retrieved November 10, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "Old Boys, New Books". Old Times Magazine. Retrieved July 11, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Canada Under 21 news". BC Rugby News. Archived from the original on September 18, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Rugby Canada names under-21 players to face U.S." . The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ "About the Author". Amherst College. Retrieved July 11, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ "University of Toronto – Calgary, AB: Globe & Mail Bestseller "Blockchain Revolution" Book Launch". my.alumni.utoronto.ca. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Don and Alex Tapscott predict upcoming digital revolution". The Star. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Members of the Elections Canada Advisory Board". Elections Canada. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Blockchain's Backers Gather to Push Governance for Technology" . Bloomberg.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Alex tapscott: the blockchain revolution". Goldman Sachs. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  14. ↑ "NextBlock, a cryptocurrency venture-capital fund, scraps IPO plan". Toronto Star. Canadian Press. November 6, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
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