Mahesh Sashital is the co-founder of Lucrisma, a MetaFi company providing innovative, blockchain-enabled financial products and services for the metaverse, that bridge assets to and from the real world.

Mahesh is a technology executive with over 20 years of software engineering and product management experience, developing, leading, and launching projects and products at Fortune 500 companies as well as startups. His expertise includes next-gen technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, RPA and AI/ML, in addition to the years of "traditional" mainstream technologies such as Java, Oracle and Web Services.

As founder of the Houston Blockchain Association, Mahesh was instrumental in increasing membership of the organization to over 100 within a few short months. He has cultivated relationships with numerous organizations in Houston, including the City of Houston, University of Houston, Houston Exponential, as well as startups and Fortune 500 companies.

As cofounder of Smartereum, Mahesh helped grow the blockchain and crypto news site to over 250k unique users a month in less than a year.

He has spoken at numerous Blockchain conferences around the world, including Dubai, London, Santa Clara, and Houston, among others.

Mahesh also has extensive experience working at companies such as J.P.Morgan, Ford and Chrysler, and has a thorough understanding of the technology practices at large companies.

Mahesh has an MBA from University of Texas Austin, and a Bachelor’s of Engineering from University of Mumbai.