Jason Albanese is a proven, Inc 500 Technology Growth Equity CEO. Currently he is a General Partner and CEO of Lightning Capital, an industry leader in Crypto asset management. Prior to Lightning Capital, he co-founded Centric Digital, where as CEO he grew the company from inception to over $40M in US sales and a $100M+ enterprise value overseeing 300 employees worldwide. Within 5 years of its creation, Centric Digital became an industry leader in Digital Transformation insights and consulting, serving S&P 500 companies in Healthcare, Finance and Retail while reaching #34 in the Inc 500 and the #1 fastest growing company in New York State. Previously he co-founded and served as CEO of Sagesecure LLC, a digital asset risk & analytics company that provided security measurement to the S&P 500 globally. He has advised the executive leadership of companies around the world including Rio Tinto, Humana, AIG, JP Morgan, and American Express. Albanese is an active venture investor in early stage and growth equity companies in technology and crypto, and serves on several boards as an advisor to their management teams.

Albanese has published 2 books on digital risk & management with McGraw-Hill and Pearson, and is a contributing columnist at INC.com and frequent guest lecturer and speaker on digital strategy, risk management and crypto. He was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year Semi-Finalist and is an active member of YPO for the past decade where he is the Chairman of the board of directors of YPO Manhattan. Throughout his career, Albanese has been an active philanthropist, most recently serving on the board of Partnership with Children in NYC.