Team
Brian Mosoff
Chief Executive Officer
An entrepreneur and angel investor focused on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is a member of the cryptocurrency working group of IIROC, a mentor in the fintech and blockchain stream at Creative Destruction Lab and has served as an advisor to the Ontario Securities Commission. He is an expert on web3 technologies, decentralization and peer-to-peer models and has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community for nearly a decade.
Stefan Coolican
President
Chief Financial Officer
Previously a Director in the investment banking group at Cormark Securities, one of Canada’s leading independent investment banks. He spent ten years at Cormark specializing in corporate finance and M&A advisory for a variety of sectors including technology, cleantech, industrials and media. Stefan has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MBA from Schulich School of Business. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.
Shayan Eskandari
Chief Technology Officer
Previously a senior security auditor for ConsenSys Diligence, part of the ConsenSys Inc. group of entities and a senior blockchain engineer at Bitaccess. He has a Masters in Information Systems Engineering from Concordia University. He is an author of numerous peer reviewed papers on blockchain technologies.
Ben Roberts
Co-Chief Investment Officer
Co-Founder & CEO of Citizen Hex , an algorithmic market making business for Ethereum tokens backed by OMERS, Purpose & VersionOne. Founder of Lendingbot.io, which was acquired by Aivren in 2017. Previously worked at Thalmic Labs. Early adopter and miner of Bitcoin and Ethereum currencies.
Directors & Advisors
Boris Wertz
Founding partner of VersionOne. Seasoned entrepreneur who sold his company, AbeBooks.com to Amazon. One of the top early-stage tech & blockchain investors in North America.
John Ruffolo
Previously CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS. Board Member of top technology companies including Hootsuite and D2L (Desire2Learn).
Joey Krug
Co-Founder of Augur, a decentralized prediction market. Co-Chief Investment Officer of Pantera Capital, a leading blockchain investment firm & institutional owner of cryptocurrencies.
Liam Horne
Co-Founder of L4, an R&D firm focused on Ethereum scalability and ETHGlobal, a hackathon and developer relations organization for Ethereum. Previously co-founded the world’s largest hackathon: Hack the North.
Colleen McMorrow
Corporate Director at Exco Technologies Limited and Norbord Inc. Former Audit Partner at Ernst & Young.
Cam Di Prata
Founder and Managing Partner of Gibraltar & Co., a venture capital firm. Former EVP & Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at National Bank Financial.
Ethan Buchman (Advisor)
Ethan the CTO of Tendermint and Vice-President of the Interchain Foundation, he is currently focused on building Tendermint and The Cosmos Network to power the next generation of blockchains.