Our Team
Curtis McConnell | CEO
Curtis has had a long career dedicated to supply chain, logistics, inventory, and fulfillment technologies. In his previous work, he revolutionized and modernized the direct-to-consumer flower and gifting supply chain. Curtis also holds a degree in history and has always had a love for art and cultural heritage, which has made him deeply passionate about the art industry. He is dedicated to protecting art and those who are in the business of art.
To that end, he holds two U.S. patents and three provisional patents all in art technologies. He has expertise in scientific art authentication processes and is mentored by Maurizio Seracini.
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Dan Bodenheimer | CPO & CTO
Dan has been working at the intersection of technology and the art world since 2016, when he joined Great Masters Art Advisory to support scientific approaches to authentication. With a background in e-commerce, SaaS, and product leadership, he brings a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems with intuitive tools.
In 2019, Dan co-founded Authentify Art with Curtis to help the art industry understand where an artwork is, how it’s doing, what it is, when events have occurred, who has owned it, and why it’s worth what it’s worth. Dan is committed to building trusted tools for a transparent art ecosystem.
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Theo Johns | CRO & Customer Success
Theo is a fourth generation UK art dealer who worked at both Sotheby’s and Christie's in NYC & London. He is an expert in provenance research with a life-long passion for Italian Old Master Paintings.
Theo joined Authentify in 2020 and has been an invaluable addition to the vision of the company as a true art market insider.
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Bill Watson-Canning | COO
Bill has spent decades as an operational leader and specializes in early-stage SaaS including e-learning and arts technology. He is an expert at structuring teams, processes, and systems that deliver growth, and PE/M&A results.
In 2025, Bill joined the team to help scale the company as it moved into the next phase of growth.
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Jeff Kluge | EVP Strategy & Corp Dev
For more than 25 years Jeff advised family offices and venture GPs, counseling founders whose companies grew well past unicorn scale.
An artist himself, he joined Authentify to protect what artists lose once a work leaves the studio. He found a larger problem there: valuable objects move through fragmented records that rarely stay connected to the object. He now leads strategy, partnerships, and capital formation.
Jeff is an AI ethicist and ForHumanity Fellow.
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