Tiana Laurence is the CMO of Factom, a blockchain-as-a-service company based in Austin, Texas. Under her leadership, the company recently secured a grant from The Gates Foundation and a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to work on blockchain projects using Factom's technology. Tiana has a column on TechTarget where she writes about blockchain and IoT. She is also the author of Blockchain For Dummies, set to release in May 2017.