Russell Castagnaro is an eCommerce & eGovernment Revolutionary and the CEO of Wampum, bringing eCommerce to businesses, with or without a bank.

He implemented some of the first US eCommerce applications in the late 1990s and led teams implementing eCommerce and ePhilanthropy solutions from 1997 through 2003. At that point, he realized more good for more people could come from sane eGovernment applications. In most cases, these services included eCommerce, access to information and all sorts of other Internet technologies. Starting in 2003 through 2016 Russell led the Hawaii Information Consortium/ eHawaii.gov. They provided electronic government solutions to any government agency working in Hawaii (Federal, State or Local).
His team implemented over 120 services for Hawaii State and County government that process over $2 billion per year and launched hundreds of government websites.
Russell enjoyed navigating the thin line between public service and private industry and embracing the dialectic between self-funded government and open source technology.

Russell's experience with eCommerce convinced him that the accelerating trend of privatization of commerce by large banks and credit card merchants was inefficient, insecure and unwise for the world economy. Cryptocurrency technology like Bitcoin and Ethereum are the world's best bet for the return of sane commerce directly between parties, and he has placed himself at dead-center in this upheaval.