Walt RuloffFounder

Canada - Bowen Island, British Columbia,

Ruloff is a systems design and technology veteran, as well as a serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience building companies and technology. He was founder of Intertrans Logistics Solutions (ITLS), a company that became a global leader in the emerging world of supply chain management technology in the 1990s. The company grew from five to more than 400 employees in a five-year period, and ITLS customers included many fortune 1000 companies who adopted the ITLS logistics and “just in time” systems to manage their procurement, shipping and delivery systems. The source code developed by ITLS is still at work in today’s $4 trillion supply chain management industry.The company was sold in 1998 to i2 Technologies for $170 million (and was subsequently sold to JDA Software).

In 2000, Ruloff founded eCash Technologies Inc. Together with Silicon Valley venture capital firms, he raised in excess of $50 million and launched the digital currency company together with bank customers Deutsche Bank Germany, Swiss Bank and others. In 2003, eCash was sold and the underlining technology design and expired patents were used for the launch of Bitcoin. In 2001, Ruloff founded Venterra Realty Inc. The company focused on the development of an optimization software system for the management of multi-family housing portfolio management, eventually growing to 10,000 units throughout the US. He sold Venterra in 2004.

In 2005, Ruloff started to investigate non-profit technology. Recognizing immediately that the sector has no underlining technology infrastructure, he started to design a system that would re-engineer the philanthropy value chain starting from the donor through to the NPO and finally the beneficiaries on the ground. In 2012, Ruloff started Amicus.io Global Relief Solutions, Inc. Amicus.io is the fintech company behind the philanthropic platform for donor-advised funds, with the mission to create a more generous world. The Amicus.io platform aligns the incentives of donors, financial institutions and philanthropic organizations for charitable giving at scale - to the benefit of all. Amicus.io is in business to help DAFs do more.

Ruloff has also been involved in many not-for-profit and philanthropic endeavors. In 1999 he founded the Smooth Stones Foundation and he continues to act as Chairman. He has also been involved with Food for the Hungry, World Vision and Young Life Canada.