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Lawrence Cummins, the CEO and Founder of Black Cactus Pty Ltd., is responsible for leading the company's operations and strategic direction. Black Cactus is incorporated in Melbourne, Australia, and is focused on developing specialized global intellectual property (IP) in diverse fields. These fields include artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital economy data, science, environmental science and distributed decentralized systems.
Lawrence's Story
Lawrence is an experienced mechanical engineer, economist, computer scientist, and software architect with an extensive technology background. He started his career in data network systems. He moved into the computer-aided engineering ("CAE") industry, revolutionizing engineering design through computer automation. He worked at many leading and pioneering companies in CAE for nearly three decades, including Telllabs, Computervision, Parametric Technology Corporation, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Schlumberger Applicon, Ashlar-Vellum, and MSC Software; he is experienced in numerical methods, computer engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, neural networks, encryption, and blockchain and is recognized as a leader and innovator in these fields.
Lawrence later founded and was the managing director of Knowledge Works Limited, a UK and European software company of the Newtonian physics engineering dynamics simulation software Working Model 2D, 3D, and Nastran 4D. Knowledge Works Limited acquired technology developed by Knowledge Revolution based in San Mateo, California. Lawrence secured venture capital through the Bank of Ireland, HSBC, and Barclays and established robust sales and distribution channels for the company in Europe and the Middle East. Knowledge Works Limited was acquired by MSC Software, a prominent aerospace, automotive, and defense software engineering company headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.
Lawrence's most recent endeavors have centered around cryptocurrency data analytics for the banking industry. He has actively created distributed decentralized platforms and leveraged blockchain, machine learning, and neural networking. He has designed and developed K.i.-Koin, a cryptocurrency tracking and data analytics platform.
Another recent focus has been the environment, and he has created a powerful, real-time, global pollution monitoring platform using satellite data for water, ground and air pollution monitoring Called K.i.-Spatial www.ki-spatial.com
Lawrence has served as the Commissioner for Blockchain for Sustainability for the United Nations, an advisor to the International Monetary Fund and the European Parliament, and is a frequent speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in distributed and decentralized financial systems.
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