Dorjee Sun

Chief Executive Officer at Perlin.net

Speaker

Dorjee is CEO of Perlin.net and is an advisor and investor into blockchain projects including: Republic Protocol, Devery, Powerledger, Loki Network, Quadrant, Airbloc and Virgil Capital a bitcoin arbitrage hedge fund.

Previously as founder of Carbon Conservation, Dorjee secured $400M+ with project partners and clients such as Rio Tinto, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Olam and Twitter. One such project in Aceh, Indonesia, won the Carbon Finance Deal of the Year award and was also the subject of an award-winning documentary, “The Burning Season”, narrated by Hugh Jackman, screened on BBC, Discovery, ABC, PBS and was nominated for an Emmy Award.

TIME Magazine named him a “Hero of the Environment” and the African Rainforest Conservancy honoured Dorjee with an Earth Day Award and by naming a newly discovered blue spotted species of chameleon from the Tanzania rainforest, the “kinyongia dorjeesuni”.

Dorjee has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, CPA Top 20 Business Leaders, one of Esquire Magazine’s 5 Gentlemen of Philanthropy, was named an Asia Society 21 Fellow, a World Cities Summit Future Leader, is on the board of Al Gore's Australian charity "Climate Reality" and his work has been covered in Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TIME, Esquire, ABC, PBS, BBC, Discovery, CNBC, Sydney Morning Herald and other media outlets.