Josh Rogers

CFO

A serial technology entrepreneur with a 25 year career as founder or in founding start-up teams including COMindico, the world’s first point-to-point IP telco (US$300M raise), Oriel Communications, the world’s first micro-billing content engine used for the world’s first monetisation of Big Brother 2 content, Mitchell Morgan, an advisory and fintech conglomerate encompassing a digital agency for online digital platforms, Freelancer, the world’s largest freelancing marketplace and HeyYou, Australia’s largest hospitality app.

Kyn Chaturvedi

COO

Formerly CBDO at TomoChain, SE Asia's largest public blockchain where he supported Vietnam’s government securing the national education sector on TomoChain plus major commercial use cases integrating NFTs into Japanese consumer products. Additionally, Kyn led the gaming division of India's largest game development house, Dhruva Interactive (eventually bought by Rockstar Games) and has launched several gaming related businesses, notably BattleBards. Kyn holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and BSc’s in both Industrial Engineering & Economics from Georgia Tech.

Alexander Funck

CMO

Previously co-founder of BrickMark AG, which in 2020 held the world record for the tokenisation of US$140M in prime real estate assets, during his career Alex has consulted to 17 technology clients, from HNWIs to leading startups and enterprise, and with combined value creation exceeding US$1B. He holds a MSc Management from Otto Beisheim School of Management and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Brandenburg University of Technology.

David Esser

CPO

Formerly Product Manager for Cardano, David has a 20+ year digital product career including roles as co-founder, CTO and CPO of sector leading firms like DBO2 and RepairPal and during his career has delivered 20+ successful online products and businesses across blockchain, FinTech, ecommerce, automotive, risk management, AI and IoT. David holds a BA from Stanford University in International Relations and Economics.

David Ajanjan

CFO

Founder and CEO of Riddec, a web, mobile and blockchain oriented digital agency with a global client portfolio additionally sourcing specialised staff including for blockchain tech stacks such as smart contracting and Substrate, Solidity, Rust and Ink coding languages and DLT technologies EVM, Polkadot and DAG. Additionally, David has lead-managed 3 bespoke investment funds. David holds a BA from Tartu University and completed Harvard University’s Finance and Alternative Investments and Financial Markets at Yale University.

Denis Romanovsky

CTO

A full-stack solutions architect and blockchain engineer experienced in designing protocol architecture for both Substrate and Solidity tech stacks plus coding languages Ruby on Rails and Javascript, Denis has an extensive engineering career specialising in fintech as a solutions architect and tech lead building out product solutions for insurance, financial services and banking for some of the world’s leading digital agencies, including EPAM and itransition. Denis holds a BSc in Software Engineering from Belarusia’s State University.

Joeri van Geelen

Advisor

Previously Managing Partner APAC for Prysm Group, the world’s leading economic blockchain auditing consultancy, Joeri’s Tier-1 network is truly world class. He’s a mentor and advisor for numerous blockchain startups and specialises in sophisticated GTM strategies for Outlier Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, F10 and Algorand, plus is a highly sought after speaker and panelist at global blockchain and technology conferences. Joeri holds a BSc from the University of Groningen, and a double MSc from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Matthew Niemerg

Advisor

With an extensive blockchain history since 2014, Matthew is co-founder and CEO of AlephZero, an enterprise oriented sovereign chain project and also co-founder of Cardinal Cryptography, a specialist consultancy in cross-chain architecture. Matthew holds a Ph.D in Mathematics, is a Simons-Berkeley Fellow and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High Performance Computing.

Mark Fitzgibbon

Advisor

Has a 25+ year technology career, in the mid-nineties developing the first ISP’s and wholesale internet connectivity for Kenya, Yemen, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bosnia. Mark has consulted extensively to various blockchain projects and investment teams, including Harmony, OriginTrail, Ravel Protocol, Radix and API3, he has an extensive coding background in 25+ languages, including Solidity, Unix, Cisco Systems IOS, RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN and Java plus an avid crypto podcaster since 2018.

David Post

Advisor

Managing Director for Corporate Development and Strategy at Chainlink Labs where he leads investment, grant, acquisition and strategic partnership activity. David has a world class blockchain centric career spanning both enterprise and crypto having previously founded and launched IBM Blockchain Ventures, incubating multiple enterprise networks for startups to Fortune 500s while additionally launching IBM’s Blockchain Accelerator. David holds a Ph.D in International Relations from Georgetown University.

Simon Schwerin

Advisor

Currently responsible for blockchain and early stage ventures at iconomy Partners, a leading advisory firm supporting enterprise, communities and investors in the internet economy, Simon includes Chainlink Labs amongst his advisory positions and is an active investor and advisor across a portfolio of blockchain startups. He holds a BA from European University Viadrina and aMSc. in Business Intelligence and Process Management from Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Philipp Zimmerer

Advisor

A co-founder of Faculty Group, a leading blockchain marketing firm, Phil has been involved in 50+ blockchain and DeFi projects as an early investor, advisor or team member. Additionally, he is a core contributor at Spool.fi building permissionless middleware that automatizes and optimizes the flow of liquidity from DeFi capital aggregators. Phil holds a BSc in Economics from Erasmus School of Economics.