The team and its advisors are experienced operational executives. They have collectively been responsible for: managing hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in revenue; getting products to market on a global scale and working with international regulatory agencies; negotiating both acquisitions and divestitures; leading small startups and large organizations; and raising private and public equity capital. The team has extensive networks of relationships with chief executive officers, founders, family owners and private equity sponsors to create an important pipeline of high potential opportunities.

Chairman

Chief Executive Officer, President, Director

Max Hooper, PhD

David Metcalf, PhD

Dr. Hooper serves as Chief Executive Officer of the company and is responsible for the company’s management and growth strategy. Dr. Hooper is a General Partner & Managing Director at Global Blockchain Ventures, a venture capital fund specializing in growth companies using blockchain technology. He was co-founder of Equity Broadcasting Corporation, a media company that owned and operated over 100 television stations across the United States. Dr. Hooper has earned five doctorate degrees: including a PhD in Corporate Finance, a PhD in Adult Theology, a Doctor of Theology, and two Doctor of Ministries from a variety of institutions.

Dr. Metcalf serves as Chairman of the company. Dr. Metcalf is a General Partner & Managing Director at Global Blockchain Ventures and a technology specialist. He has over 20 years’ experience in the design and research of web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and health care. Dr. Metcalf has worked globally on many projects in and outside of the U.S. in enterprise, education, healthcare, and other areas. Dr. Metcalf has a long history working in simulation, mobile, learning, visualization systems, and quantum applications. Dr. Metcalf serves on multiple boards of directors for companies that work to impact global problems.

Allen Weiss

Jonathan Morris

Board Member

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Weiss serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Weiss had a career at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Inc., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company holding various roles, including President of Walt Disney World, President of world wide operations for Disney, and was responsible for Disney’s theme parks and resorts. Mr. Weiss also served as a consultant for Apollo Investment Consulting, where he was involved in company analyses to support potential acquisitions and management. During his time there, he had direct involvement in numerous acquisitions, including the acquisitions of Chuck E. Cheese Entertainment, Great Wolf Resorts, and Diamond Resorts International Club Inc.. Mr. Weiss has served on the board of Alticor (Amway), Diamond Resorts International, and Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission Governor’s Council.

Mr. Morris is the Chief Financial Officer of the company. Mr. Morris has prior SPAC experience as the Chief Financial Officer of Twelve Seas Investment Company II. Mr. Morris has over 24 years of experience as a finance executive, principal, operator and advisor. Mr. Morris currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Twelve Seas Investment Company II (where he also serves as a director), FreeCast, Inc. and Hush Aerospace LLC, as well as the Chief Development Officer of TLG Acquisition One Corp. Prior to these roles, Mr. Morris served as Chief Financial Officer at Imageware Systems, Inc. in 2020 and from 2016 to 2020, led principal investments and structuring as President and Senior Managing Director at a large private family office. Prior to that, Mr. Morris served as a Director at Blackstone Group, Inc., where he focused on telecom and technology investments. From 2005 to 2012 Mr. Morris was part of the TMT Investment Banking Group of Credit Suisse. Mr. Morris began his career in 1997 within the private equity division of Lombard, Odier et Cie, private bank in Switzerland and subsequently went to work as an associate at GAIN Capital, a currency hedge fund from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Morris has served on several boards, including on the board of SunGard AS. Mr. Morris earned his B.S. in Economics and Finance from the University of Virginia and his M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

Director

Ms. Fisher serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the company. Ms. Fisher is a lawyer and business executive with significant experience in advising investment funds, family offices, and technology companies on international legal, tax, operations, and strategy matters. Since November 2021, Ms. Fisher has served as Executive Vice Chairman of Schaffhausen Institute of Technology Holding, and since November 2020, Ms. Fisher has served as senior advisor and liaison to the Chairman and members of the board and executive management team on strategic initiatives and the coordination and supervision of matters worldwide for the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) group of business entities in 10+ countries as well as to SIT’s nonprofit affiliates. From November 2019 until November 2021, Ms. Fisher served as Investment Director and Legal Advisor at Runa Capital. From 2011 until November 2019, Ms. Fisher was in private practice.

Katya Fisher

Director

David Ruttenberg

Mr. Ruttenberg serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Ruttenberg is the Managing Partner at Ruttenberg Gordon Investments (RGI), a leading investment firm that invests across the capital structure through equity and structured investments in real estate, private equity, and alternative hard assets. Mr. Ruttenberg leads the firm’s acquisitions, institutional joint ventures, financings, strategy, and structuring, and serves as member of RGI’s investment committee.

Paul C. Jeffries

Chris Ensey

Director

Director

Dr. Jeffries serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the company. At Facebook from 2007 to 2016, Dr. Jeffries served in various roles pertaining to legal, regulatory, trust & safety, strategy, and ecosystem building — as founding Head of Legal Operations, and founding head of policy and operations for the developer platform. Dr. Jeffries has served as Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer of FounderPool since 2020, Managing Director of Slipstream Venture Capital since 2016, and has been an experienced venture capital and angel investor since 2005, including blockchain and multiple unicorns. Dr. Jeffries was a member of the physics faculty at Rice University, after teaching at the University of Washington and conducting research at the Sorbonne as a Chateaubriand Fellow. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University for work in quantum mechanics and information theory.

Mr. Ensey serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Ensey is a product visionary and executive in the cyber security, cloud computing, and blockchain industry. Since June 2021, Mr. Ensey has served as Chief Technical Advisor for Gryphon Digital Mining. From 2018 to 2019, Mr. Ensey served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Riot Blockchain. Other notable past roles include Chief Operating Officer of Dunbar Security Solutions, Inc from 2012 to 2018, Chief Technology Officer of eMed Digital Healthcare from 2020 to 2021, and Chief Technology Officer of Blue Voyant from 2019 to 2020, a global cybersecurity solutions provider. Mr. Ensey has 25 years of experience developing mission-critical software with an emphasis on high performance computing, analytic processing, and cloud technologies. He has driven numerous products to market, including solutions for managed security services, cyber risk management, and digital healthcare. He began his career as a system engineer and integrator working on national intelligence and defense programs with companies such as SAIC, SafeNet and IBM. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.