About Us
Meet Our Team
Specializing in Decentralized Finance, Traditional Finance, Legal and Technology fields, our seasoned team is helping build the next generation of Web 3.0 NFT market infrastructure.
LAYNE NADEAU
Founder, CEO
Entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience identifying opportunities and leading teams to deliver enterprise and financial industry technology. Institutional finance, Web 3.0, NFT, and blockchain expert.
JILL CORRAINI
CFO, COO
Former corporate, contract, trademark, and IP lawyer now focused on digital assets. Financial industry background. Adjunct law professor. Editor-in-chief of Annual Review of Insolvency Law.
MARK ALLEN
CTO
Tech veteran with 27+ years of experience building SaaS applications that scaled to millions of users. Scaled and led engineering teams for Hootsuite and Taplytics. Lately building tools to mint and market NFTs.
BERNARDO DORE
Data Scientist
6+ years of data science experience specializing in insurance, asset management, and NFT industries.
HOWARD KRIEGER
Valuation Specialist/Advisor
Former Managing Director and NY Valuation Practice Lead at CBIZ Valuation Group, Valuation Director and corporate compliance valuation founder at Withum Smith + Brown and Senior Manager at KPMG LLP. Howard holds a MBA (quantitative finance) from Rutgers University and was an Accredited Senior Appraiser.
JARED ALLEN
Developer
Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of NVAL stack
Building front-end & browser tools for NVAL TAP TM
Building front-end & browser tools for NVAL TAP TM
JUSTIN MAXWELL
Advisor
Entrepreneur and Top 40 under Forty Winner. Raised over $200M for Canada’s fastest unicorn in history, Nexii Building Solutions. Co-founded Blue Planet Water Solutions, commercializing unproven oil spill mitigation technology.
JOSHUA BIXBY
Advisor
Former CEO of Fastly, guiding from
pre-revenue through IPO.
Multiple tech startups and successful exits.
Active investor, board member, and startup advisor.
pre-revenue through IPO.
Multiple tech startups and successful exits.
Active investor, board member, and startup advisor.
DAVID T. ACKERMAN, Esq.
Advisor
Executive and licensed attorney with expertise in compliance and financial regulation across US, EMEA, APAC with 20+ years in compliance, AML, gov’t relations, and regulatory guidance. Published author, and FINRA Arbitrator.
STUART MACDONALD
Advisor
Managing Partner at corporate finance firm Bride Valley Partners with over 35 years’ experience of alternative investments (Hedge Funds, VC, Real Assets) and bankable technologies. Former Chairman of Aaro Capital, Managing Director at Aquila Capital and Director of Hedge Funds at Henderson Global Investors.
LAYNE NADEAU
Founder, CEO
Entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience identifying opportunities and leading teams to deliver enterprise and financial industry technology. Institutional finance, Web 3.0, NFT, and blockchain expert.
JILL CORRAINI
CFO, COO
Former corporate, contract, trademark, and IP lawyer now focused on digital assets. Financial industry background. Adjunct law professor. Editor-in-chief of Annual Review of Insolvency Law.
MARK ALLEN
CTO
Tech veteran with 27+ years of experience building SaaS applications that scaled to millions of users. Scaled and led engineering teams for Hootsuite and Taplytics. Lately building tools to mint and market NFTs.
ANDRE A. DESOUZA
CMO
Marketer with 25+ years of experience specializing in online marketing and sales strategy for the tech sector, including television and radio campaigns. Ran global online campaigns for Fortune 500 clients and national political parties in U.S. and Canada. Lately serving DeFi and NFT organizations.
JUSTIN MAXWELL
Advisor
Entrepreneur and Top 40 under Forty Winner. Raised over $200M for Canada’s fastest unicorn in history, Nexii Building Solutions. Co-founded Blue Planet Water Solutions, commercializing unproven oil spill mitigation technology.
MATTHEW GARDINER
Advisor
Advises fintech, Web3, DeFi, and Al platforms and exchanges, scaling with token presales, ICOs, and traditional instruments in excess of $2B. Deep network of leaders in Web3, NFTs, DeFi, VCs, M&A, and financial institutions and their regulators—in North America, Europe, APAC, and GCC—including Blockchain.com, Coinbase, Binance, Consensys, Axie Infinity, Metapurse, 6th Man Ventures, Index Ventures Fidelity, BlackRock, State Street, SEC, FCA, MAS, ADGM, BIS, BoE, and ECB.