Blockchain Intelligence Group

About Us

Cryptocurrency’s exponential growth is only adding to marketplace concerns around illicit use, risk and regulatory compliance. That’s why our mission is to bring cryptocurrency mainstream by giving our clients and users peace of mind. Our proprietary and Blockchain-agnostic search and analytics solutions bring security and accountability to cryptocurrency.

Law Enforcement

Law enforcement and government agencies rely on our suite of solutions to forensically investigate and monitor illicit cryptocurrency use. Armed with the techniques and advanced search algorithms our team of experts develop, our clients can reliably detect suspicious activities within cryptocurrency transactions and the “Dark Web”.

Financial Sector

Financial services, RegTech, ATMs, exchanges and banks need to know they will meet traditional regulatory and compliance requirements. We help them reduce their risk associated with cryptocurrency transactions through our BitRank Verified™ API "risk score" subscription service.

Regulators

Regulators granting licenses to cryptocurrency exchanges today, or planning on writing and passing the legislation and policies of tomorrow, need the confidence BIG's tools and services provide through greater actionable intelligence and guidance from seasoned investigators.

Our Products

BitRank ™

BitRank™ is a proprietary “risk-scoring” tool that provides instant visibility into the history of cryptocurrency wallets. Financial Institutions, Money Service Businesses, Exchanges, Miners and Bitcoin ATMs can easily identify, mitigate, and report on the risk associated with cryptocurrency transactions. The BitRank™ scoring mechanism is made possible through BIG’s proprietary algorithms that continuously scrub the blockchain for transactional behavior. BitRank™ quickly identifies transactions that have questionable history, allowing users take appropriate action. BitRankverified.com, through BIG’s API can perform up to 7 billion lookups per month.

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QLUE™

QLUE™ (Qualitative Law Enforcement Unified Edge) incorporates advanced techniques and search algorithms to detect suspicious activity within Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions. Law enforcement investigators can quickly and visually trace, track and monitor suspicious bitcoin transactions. QLUE™ enables investigators to literally “follow the virtual money” in their fight against money laundering, human trafficking, terrorism financing, and other cyber crimes.

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Our Team

Shone Anstey

Executive Chairman / President & Co‑Founder

Shone brings 20 years of experience building complex technologies and software within the IT industry, primarily within search, analytics, and data center operations. Mr. Anstey has been engaged with cryptocurrency since 2012 and is a Certified...

Lance Morginn

Chief Executive Officer / Director / Co‑Founder

Lance Morginn is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience founding, leading and growing successful technology-based businesses from the ground up. In 1996, he founded Planet City Graphics which won worldwide recognition and grew to...

Anthony Zelen

IR / Corporate Development Co‑Founder

Anthony has over 17 years of experience in finance, investor relations, and corporate development. He is the owner of the full-service corporate communications firm, Senergy Communications Inc, providing investor relations, public relations, and...

Kim Evans

Chief Financial Officer CPA, CGA

Kim is President and Founder of Golden Reign and is a Certified General Accountant. She has extensive experience in both the corporate securities industry and in the junior mining sector. She has 17 years of experience as Director and/or Officer...

Marty Anstey

CTO / Co-Founder

Marty has over 20 years of systems administration and programming experience and enjoys complex challenges solving problems with big data intelligence and analytics. His background includes strong Linux and FreeBSD knowledge, experience designing...

Tejinder Basi

Director of Strategy and Corporate Development

Tejinder is the Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at the Blockchain Intelligence Group (“BIG”). He brings over 25 years of business and technical experience, working with medium and large enterprises across Europe and North America...

Robert Whitaker

Director of Forensics and Investigations

Robert Whitaker served in law enforcement for 23 years and now serves as the Director of Forensics and Investigations for Blockchain Intelligence Group. Mr. Whitaker previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security...

Teresa Anaya

Director of Financial Institution Strategy

Ms. Anaya’s career has spanned a period of over 25 years, with focus in fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing Investigations. Ms. Anaya draws her extensive knowledge and experience from her work performing investigations for the FDIC in...

Bernd Petak

Strategy Advisor

Bernd Petak is an investment professional, corporate director, founder, advisor, and consultant to early and mid-stage technology companies and their investors. After eight years as an engineer and technology strategic planner he graduated with...

Andrew Csinger

Advisor

Dr. Csinger was Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of British Columbia. He is a graduate of the INSEAD International Corporate Governance Program and is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (1df800). Dr. Csinger holds several patents in...

Michael Perklin

Product Advisor

Michael is Chief Information Security Officer at ShapeShift, a Bitcoin and digital asset exchange operating out of Switzerland. Michael has been invited to speak internationally on topics including digital forensics, information security, and...

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Shone Anstey

Executive Chairman / President & Co‑Founder

Shone brings 20 years of experience building complex technologies and software within the IT industry, primarily within search, analytics, and data center operations. Mr. Anstey has been engaged with cryptocurrency since 2012 and is a Certified Bitcoin Professional. Formerly, Shone acted as Director of Technology for a distributed Bitcoin mining pool, while developing an industrial Bitcoin mining operation for a public company.

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Lance Morginn

Chief Executive Officer / Director / Co‑Founder

Lance Morginn is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience founding, leading and growing successful technology-based businesses from the ground up.
In 1996, he founded Planet City Graphics which won worldwide recognition and grew to become a multi-million-dollar corporation in just 18 months. He also founded Western Shores Interactive, which became a publicly listed company and reached a market cap of $400 million.
In addition to his leadership and technical acumen, Lance has expertise working with Asian companies and government entities. In 2000, he was recruited to work closely with China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC). He assisted in the development of a secure network for the dissemination of information to State-owned business as well as companies around the world.
Lance co-founded Blockchain Intelligence Group in 2015 where he sets the company’s strategy and vision.

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Anthony Zelen

IR / Corporate Development Co‑Founder

Anthony has over 17 years of experience in finance, investor relations, and corporate development. He is the owner of the full-service corporate communications firm, Senergy Communications Inc, providing investor relations, public relations, and marketing solutions.

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Kim Evans

Chief Financial Officer CPA, CGA

Kim is President and Founder of Golden Reign and is a Certified General Accountant. She has extensive experience in both the corporate securities industry and in the junior mining sector. She has 17 years of experience as Director and/or Officer with a number of public companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.

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Marty Anstey

CTO / Co-Founder

Marty has over 20 years of systems administration and programming experience and enjoys complex challenges solving problems with big data intelligence and analytics. His background includes strong Linux and FreeBSD knowledge, experience designing and administering data center and ISP networks, and expertise with multiple programming languages. Marty is a Certified Bitcoin Professional.

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Tejinder Basi

Director of Strategy and Corporate Development

Tejinder is the Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at the Blockchain Intelligence Group (“BIG”). He brings over 25 years of business and technical experience, working with medium and large enterprises across Europe and North America.
Prior to joining BIG, Tejinder was a Partner with Deloitte Canada for over 15 years where he led Deloitte’s Cybersecurity and IT Risk Management practices. He was instrumental in the establishment a full services Cybersecurity consulting organization, including a 24x7 monitoring capability, identity management, privacy, data analytics and incident response.
In the UK Tejinder held positions in the fields Electronic Engineering, IT Audit and Financial Audit.
He has a degree in Computer Systems Engineering, is a Certified Management Accountant, Certified Information Security Professional and an adjunct Professor at UBC Sauder School of Business.

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Robert Whitaker

Director of Forensics and Investigations

Robert Whitaker served in law enforcement for 23 years and now serves as the Director of Forensics and Investigations for Blockchain Intelligence Group. Mr. Whitaker previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and last served in HSI's Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit where he oversaw the Illicit Digital Economy Program (IDEP). The IDEP was responsible for overseeing cryptocurrency investigations, providing training, equipment, analytical support, and investigative methodologies needed by HSI special agents engaged in investigations involving cryptocurrencies. The IDEP maintained relationships with private industries and academia involved in the cryptocurrency space worldwide. Robert Whitaker previously served as the Resident Agent in Charge of the HSI office in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and as a Municipal Police Officer in El Paso, Texas for 8 years. Mr. Whitaker is a Certified Bitcoin Professional.

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Teresa Anaya

Director of Financial Institution Strategy

Ms. Anaya’s career has spanned a period of over 25 years, with focus in fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing Investigations. Ms. Anaya draws her extensive knowledge and experience from her work performing investigations for the FDIC in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 followed by investigations for Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of America and others. Her area of expertise is in the financial institution vertical, specific to fraud, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. Her interest in cryptocurrency was directly related to the cryptocurrency investigations she performed for Standard Chartered. Aware of the need to understand the technology behind the compliance programs, she took on the role of Project Manager at Bank of America working with the agile teams developing a proprietary ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) suite of applications. In addition, she worked with MoneyGram International to expand the KYC and IDSCAN tools globally. Ms. Anaya’s experience will provide invaluable financial institution insight as BIGG develops products and services tailored for law enforcement, legal and financial service market verticals. Ms. Anaya will help financial institutions utilize BIG’s proprietary tools; Bit Rank and QLUE to easily establish a risk model, investigate and report on suspicious cryptocurrency transactions. Ms. Anaya’s professional qualifications include: Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, ITIL 3 Certified and a Certified Bitcoin Professional.

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Bernd Petak

Strategy Advisor

Bernd Petak is an investment professional, corporate director, founder, advisor, and consultant to early and mid-stage technology companies and their investors.
After eight years as an engineer and technology strategic planner he graduated with an MBA from the Ivey School of Business. Subsequently, Bernd finished a decade-long tenure at Deloitte as partner responsible for the firm’s regional strategy and operations practice. Bernd left Deloitte to found his first startup in 2003, which exited via strategic sale.
Bernd acted as interim CFO of a major Canadian bank lending institution and is a multi-time CEO, CFO and COO. Currently he is investment partner for Northmark Ventures, a technology investment firm based in Whitehorse, Vancouver and Calgary. He sits on the board of Screenscape, a leading provider of internet-delivered digital signage products and advises a number of companies focusing on financial and blockchain technology.

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Andrew Csinger

Advisor

Dr. Csinger was Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of British Columbia. He is a graduate of the INSEAD International Corporate Governance Program and is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (1df800). Dr. Csinger holds several patents in internet security, biometrics, and related areas.
He was Senior VP and Chief Information Officer of Group Telecom (GT). GT’s successful initial public offering took place in March 1999. While at GT, he operated the first PKI Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. This seminal work influenced the later adoption of federal U.S. law (the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000, or “E-Sign Act”), and was an early model for the adoption by other states of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).
In 1996, he founded Xcert Software Inc., a technology leader in the emerging business of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI is a robust technical solution to the basic security problems associated with communications on open networks, providing a business and technology platform for the delivery of secure value-added services including modern blockchain platforms. Xcert was acquired in 2001 by RSA Technologies Inc.
Andrew received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. Degrees in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.

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Michael Perklin

Product Advisor

Michael is Chief Information Security Officer at ShapeShift, a Bitcoin and digital asset exchange operating out of Switzerland. Michael has been invited to speak internationally on topics including digital forensics, information security, and Bitcoin security.

News & Insights

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Events by Anthony Zelen Jun 13, 2018

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Blog by Blockchain... Jun 08, 2018

In the last couple weeks, we have been contacted by a number of Envion AG shareholders with requests for additional information. As stated in our press release dated May 23,…
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8th Annual LD Micro Invitational Conference – June 4th – 6th

Events by Anthony Zelen Jun 05, 2018

The LD Micro Invitational Conference which was held at the Luxe Sunset Hotel in Bel-Air, California is one of the nation’s largest independent conferences for small/micro-cap companies, with more than…
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