Bill Barhydt is the co-founder and CEO of Abra, a new digital cash payment app network that enables the transfer of digital assets between any two smartphones. He studied computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology and completed graduate programs in mathematics at Stanford University and finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. He previously worked at Netscape, focusing on telecommunications and online banking transactions in Europe, and later founded WebSentric Technologies, which still exists as an online portal service for SAP. He has also worked at the CIA, NASA, and Goldman Sachs.