Greg Halpern

The Inventor of Crowd Funding in 1998, Greg Halpern was an International Gold Medalist in Judo & an Author in the late 70’s, spending nearly 40 years since pioneering emerging technologies where he played the critical role bringing them from concept to reality providing savvy management, infrastructure, funding & intellectual capital to bring life-changing innovations to market.

Halpern has raised & invested over 100 million dollars yielding more than 560 million in open market returns for investors. According to Bloomberg, Halpern’s Circle Group Holdings was the top gainer in Illinois in 2003 at 6533% before quadrupling in 2004.

In the 80’s, Halpern appeared in Omni Science and Venture among many media features pioneering Computer Animated Imaging & Electronic Anesthesia where he received patents & trademarks & was on the Oprah show. In the 90’s Halpern developed the first search engine reverse algorithm software & successfully launched the first crowd funding - raising three million dollars online in a week. The S.E.C. cleared offering was featured on CNN. https://vimeo.com/254066448

Since 2000, Halpern was the Principal owner of CGI Capital an NASD Broker Dealer, Chairman & CEO of Circle Group Holdings (AMEX: CXN) and Z-Trim Holdings (AMEX: ZTM) where he designed & built a green plant to produce a USDA food ingredient breakthrough featured on Neal Cavuto https://vimeo.com/266099858 and is the current Chairman of the HD Audio company Max Sound (OTCBB: MAXD). Halpern also developed Fairplay, a DRM component of Veridisc, which was sold to Apple as a piece of their media ecosystem. Halpern has been featured on most major TV networks & in many major publications including books by celebrities such as Dr. Oz. Leaders in several industries have endorsed & worked with Halpern & his ventures including Steve Forbes, Al Gore, General Wes Clark, Steadman Graham, George Foreman, Larry King, Mick Fleetwood, Pitbull, SBA Chief Hector Barreto, Congressman Michael Oxley & Congresswoman Sue Kelly who brought him to congress to testify on ways to improve small business in America. Halpern has worked with agencies such as the FDA, USDA, USPTO, FCC, DOE, DOD & SEC & is an inventor on numerous patents issued or pending. On the side, Halpern is the backer for his daughter's band KI and the producer for their Amazon Prime series - When Stars Align https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07D84F2DR/ref=atv_wtlp_wtl_0