AMISH COIN - Key Persons


Broc Hillyer

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Director
Born and raised in Tippecanoe, Ohio with parents Bruce and Amy Hillyer. Broc is a 2004 graduate of Claymont High School. He is a 8 year combat veteran in the U.S. Army and a USDA and state of Ohio certified butcher. Married with four kids, Broc is now working as the social media director for Amish Coin as well as various other companies. He's an avid hunter and fisherman, loves mostly chasing whitetail deer but in the spring, you can catch him on a lake in his boat catching crappie and walleye.

Dennis Bontrager

Job Titles:
  • Team Lead / Tokenomics Designer
Dennis has been married to the woman of his dreams for 10 years, and is a proud father, family and fun is always first! Founder of Simplnomics crypto education company, Dennis has a passion for decentralized finance and for making blockchain simple and more easily understandable, available and safe for anyone from any age group that is willing to learn new things and new skills sets and wants to invest in the future of decentralized finance.

Jerry Hershberger - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Bishop
  • CEO
Jerry Hershberger grew up Amish in Walnut Creek, Ohio. He grew up next to Beth, who he would later marry, and work together building multiple successful business ventures as well as a family. He learned the value of hard work, integrity, community, and chasing his business visions. Jerry and Beth left the Amish church and ended up leading a home church as well as speaking at multiple conferences around the country. Jerry and Beth own multiple businesses: The Dwellbox in 2021 was Airbnb's most requested unique stay destination in the state of Ohio. Amish Coin and Coinhopper are a cryptocurrency and a crypto exchange, which are a long way from his Amish upbringing. Jerry has returned to his Amish roots and is now the "Bishop" in Amish Coin videos as well as serving as the CEO of the company. Amish Coin is providing some of the money they earn to help fight against human trafficking. This is a very important issue to the Amish Community as well as to Jerry and Beth. Jerry owns 8 properties for the Dwellbox and over 1,100 acres and mineral rights on land in southern Ohio. He is extremely entrepreneurial and is always developing new technology solutions, many of them being developed now on the blockchain tech platform.

Naresh Anantharaj - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Co - Founder
  • Head of Development
Naresh is Co-Founder and Head of Development, leading an experienced Tech team that caters various software requirement specifications. Our CTO's goal is to help the small and medium scale enterprises to succeed in this Digital Era with the power of technology and blockchain solutions. He has 7+ years of experience in commercial development and has been working in the blockchain/fintech projects for several years. Our CTO has efficiently managed Tokenomics aspects of the blockchain projects. Managing a team of 5 to15 blockchain specialists, Fluent in English and started in 2014 as a full-stack developer. Between 2020 & 2022 our CTO has developed and managed several blockchain integrations as a project solution. Currently working on Coinhopper - the Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Amish Coin - the token in Binance Smart Chain Network / BEP20 and Babyboomer Coin - the token in DAO. Along with the team he has researched emerging technologies and projects in Blockchain, AI and IoT spheres and also developed prototypes and PoCs. For the last few years our CTO has been involved in a multi-faceted role of various token fair launches, DEX launch, blockchain solution architect and as an advisor for the blockchain-related projects.

Ray Bontrager

Born and raised as an Amish boy in Michigan for 15 years. After that our family moved to the luscious promised land Ky to a Mennonite comminity. So from horse and buggy and no electric to a car and a phone my life has taken some change. I am an active student of everything geeky with interests in astronomy and astrophotography, science, a dedicated naturalist and photographer, and diving into blockchain, crypto, and computer science. Techy challenges are my food today. My main day job is a construction business my family runs and one side hustle is selling commercial lasers and inventing tools to use them on. In the future I hope to get into crypto/blockchain education and technology and real estate full time. Also love traveling the world. Visiting Liberia Africa for several weeks assisting my brother on a orphanage sponsorship and helping with misc other things while assisting with Amish Coin Launch. View More

Shane Byler

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director
Shane Byler works as the Creative Director at Amish Coin and has the goal to make everyone laugh as well as be part of ground control in Amish Coins mission to the moon! Shane has performed at the Amish Country Theatre and improv training with the IO in Chicago. Incase you were wondering Shaneybae means nice legs in Dutch

Tom Smith - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
Tom Smith is the Co-Founder of Amish Coin. He lives in Dover, Ohio with his beautiful wife. He has 3 grown children and has been in technology development as an entrepreneur for over 20 years. He owns several businesses in tech, but focuses on developing crypto and DAO projects currently. He isn't Amish, but works as though he is. He works closely with the developers around the clock making sure that Amish Coin is the Fairest, Best Coin in the land.