Board of Directors

Robert Steele

CEO, Founder & Chairman

Mr. Steele is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. A technologist at heart, Robert learned to program a computer at 8 years old and by the time he was 12 years old, he purchased an Apple II and began his first technology company which game controllers for the brand-new Apple II computers, which were sold through local computer stores. 

After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University, Robert and his co-founders created one of the first PC-based GIS systems (Graphical Information Systems) for the Fairfax County cable television system. This system was one of the first times that utility maps for an entire county could be edited and maintained on PC-based technology. 

In 1999, Robert foresaw that in the future everyone would have a computer in their pocket in the form of a smartphone and founded iBrite, which designed groundbreaking mobile software. The patent application that Robert filed for iBrite has been citied more than 30 times and the iBrite software was used my Mapquest to put maps on a mobile device for the first time that we know of and was also used to put Microsoft Powerpoint on a Palm mobile device (which he believes was the first time this was done).

Robert has been CEO of two publicly traded companies. One provided business process outsourcing services to Fortune 500 clients like Amgen, FedEx, GMAC and Ecolab (NYSE: ECL) and processed more than $1B a year in accounts payable transactions for Ecolab and scanned more than 30 million pages of loan documentation for GMAC. The other developed software that searches the Internet for copyright infringement and to date more than $1B in civil judgements have been awarded to copyright holders based on the case law that resulted from this technology.

Robert Haag

Director

Robert Haag is the Managing Member and sole owner of Westside Strategic Partners LLC, which is an investor in Thumzup Media Corporation. Since 2012, Mr. Haag has been a Managing Director of IRTH Communications, LLC, which provides financial communications services, and strategic consulting to its clients. He was previously employed in the brokerage, investment banking industries from about 1993 – 2001 and formerly held the Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.

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Based in Asia from 2008-2012, he held senior positions with an investment fund and also an investment bank based in Saigon, Vietnam in 2008. From 2009-2012 he served as Managing Director of Asia for IRTH Communications, LLC and was based out of Shanghai, China. From approximately 2002 -2007 he was Director of Speculative Investments at KMVI, a family office / holding company which invested in restaurants, oil, private equity, publicly traded companies, real estate and a wide array of other industries. While at KMVI, he was also President and CEO of Utopia Optics (majority owned by KMVI), an eyewear and apparel company focused on consumers in the action sports markets. Mr. Haag graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1988.

Paul Dickman

Advisor

An accomplished angel and real estate investor, Dickman has held influential positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chairman of the Board, and Chair of the Board Audit Committee in various publicly traded companies. His notable tenure as Chairman of the Board at Medicine Man Technologies saw the company through a significant capital raise of $20M, a series of strategic acquisitions, and a remarkable increase in stock value, culminating in an enterprise value of over $130M.

Paul is the Founder & Principal of Breakwater MB, a boutique merchant bank focused on providing the expertise and funding needed for cannabis-focused organizations to transition into the public market. Prior to founding Breakwater MB, Dickman established Breakwater Corporate Finance, a professional services agency offering outsourced CFO and board governance services to private and micro-cap public companies. Through Breakwater Corporate Finance, Dickman has helped facilitate multiple rounds of new equity and debt capital and has facilitated multiple public offerings while providing profitable liquidity events for investors. Mr. Dickman has a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting, is a licensed CPA in the State of Colorado (inactive) and is a past Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Isaac Dietrich

Director of Finance

Mr. Dietrich has served as Chief Financial Officer of Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc. ("Greenwave") since April 2023. Mr. Dietrich previously held the following positions with Greenwave: Chief Executive Officer (April 2013 – October 2017, December 2017 – September 2021); Chairman of the Board (April 2013 – October 2017, December 2018 – June 2021); Chief Financial Officer (April 2013 – May 2014, August 2017 – October 2017, March 2021 – November 2021, April 2023 to present); and a member of its Board of Directors (April 2013 – November 2021). Mr. Dietrich was a consultant to Greenwave from February 2022 to April 2023. Since February 2023, Mr. Dietrich has served on Truleum, Inc.’s Board of Directors and as Chairman of its Audit Committee. Since September 2022, Mr. Dietrich has served as Director of Finance for Thumzup Media Corporation.