the executive chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum technology in 1987.

He also founded and is the chairman of VeriBlock a technology company that provides Bitcoin security to the world's blockchains.

[1] Platinum technology was sold to Computer Associates in 1999 for $3.5 billion, a record at the time for a software company.

Throughout the course of his career, Filipowski, along with his management team, has acquired and integrated nearly 200 public and private companies.

Filipowski was the 1998 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Torch of Liberty Award, first for the Silicon Prairie (Chicago), for his support in fighting hate on the Internet.