Meet the Core Team & Advisors
![team](/static/wil.81fce17e.jpg)
Wil Bown
Founder | Chief Architect
25+ years software engineer. 2015 Million Dollar Texas Bitcoin Conference hackathon winner. Coding contributor to main fork Bitcoin. Crypto miner since 2012. Experience developing multi-million dollar software.
![team](/static/jen.a585ef7f.jpg)
Jen Greyson
Advisor
20+ years executive-level. Multi-million dollar leadership. IP Specialist.
Jake Wiser
Senior Strategic Planner at CureCoin
Early adopter. Connector. Strategist. Heavy involvement in crypto projects founded in social and scientific good. Front-line educator.
James Alton
Developer | Dev Ops, Ethereum
17+ years software development. Wrote the first completed Ethereum contract. Bitcoin miner since 2011. Federal Government and Banking software solutions.
![team](/static/aleksander.a059fd0c.jpg)
Aleksander Sobolev
Software Engineer
6+ years software developer. Team Lead at Mad Devs. Passionated by blockchain and artificial intelligence projects.
![team](/static/brian.b24dadcc.jpg)
Brian Nelson
Relationships | Regulation
Token sale consultant. Bitcoin and Blockchain Expert. International speaker.
![team](/static/ethan.db579abb.jpg)
Ethan Erkiletian
Blockchain Educator | Advisor
Former radio talk show host, blockchain educator and advisor.
![team](/static/brian_sewell.c28806bf.jpg)
Brian Sewell
Education
Brian Sewell is Founder and CEO of The American Bitcoin Academy, the thought leader in cryptocurrency education. Mr. Sewell is a serial entrepreneur who has owned several companies in the technology, energy and manufacturing industries.
![team](/static/nick.cce55bf5.jpg)
Nick Baguley
Data Science | Contacts, Strategy
Creator of a near-real time serverless architecture for the finance industry.
![team](/static/ben.248306f8.jpg)
Ben Taylor
Data Science
Passionate about machine learning. Life's mission is to further the boundaries of what is possible with data science.
![team](/static/sam.207c3a6c.jpg)
Samuel M. Smith, PhD
AI Expert | Researcher | Developer
Comprehensivist approach to intelligent systems design. Author and Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for 25+ years. Pioneer of reinforcement learning algorithms for optimization. Architect of several projects and protocols, including OpenReputation.net, Sovrin.org, Ioflo and RAET.