Marcus Dukes is a serial startup entrepreneur and trusted business advisor, who has founded several high-growth companies in a 25-year career, and has consulted with companies to complete mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, exit transactions and debt financings. 

As an entrepreneurial executive himself, Marcus is the President of Technology Transfer Institute which currently has a partnership with an arm of the Nigerian federal government and a Nasdaq traded company, to create a million new jobs in a country with 33% unemployment and 100 million people in extreme poverty. Marcus is also Chief Visionary Officer for Exponential Launch Partners: a corporate development, advisory and investment firm and holds the same responsibility for Legacy Block. Legacy Block is a new initiative that focuses on poverty eradication through blockchain and crypto adoption with a goal of 1 million users by the end of 2021.