Mark Toohey

Senior Solicitor & Industry Expert, Department of Digital Innovation, Institute For the Future

University of Nicosia

Mark Toohey is the co-founder and CEO of TBSx3 - a blockchain-based logistics and supply chain solutions company. He serves as an industry expert and guest lecturer for the MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currency (University of Nicosia). His knowledge of this cutting-edge technology is built upon a solid commercial foundation and his extensive background as a lawyer in some of Australia’s leading law firms. Mark was also the General Counsel for a telecommunications company and a major television company which were both publicly listed. Since founding his own law firm, Adroit Lawyers, Mark has helped dozens of companies turn their ideas into businesses. Many were technology companies focused on disrupting and transforming industry.

In late 2012, he recognised the potential of digital currency and Blockchain technology. The firm he founded, helped organise and lead blockchain conferences at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Working in conjunction with the Commonwealth Bank, they organised the most significant blockchain event ever held in Australia: the five-day Sydney Blockchain Workshop. Over 40 industry leaders from around the world flew in for the event in 2015. Speakers included: Vitalkek Buterin (founder of Ethereum); Joi Ito (director of MIT Media Lab); and Lawrence Lessig (Harvard law professor and former US Presidential Candidate).

Mark understands the legal, commercial, and the technical aspects of the technology. He has been a lecturer in a masters course on Digital Currency Regulation with the University of Nicosia since the end of 2015. The course has a strong international reputation for pioneering the field of cryptocurrency studies.

Mark was one of the first lawyers in the world to lecture on the technology and its commercial application. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences.

His knowledge of this cutting-edge technology is built upon a solid commercial foundation. In addition to working as a lawyer in some of Australia’s leading law firms, Mark has been General Counsel for a telecommunications company and a major television company which were both publicly listed.

After founding Adroit Lawyers, Mark has helped dozens of companies turn their ideas into businesses. Many were technology companies focused on disrupting and transforming industry. He understands how to commercialize products and he knows the importance of strong contracts as a business development tool.