THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PLATFORM
Experience across every layer of the product.
Black Box Crypto™ is supported by a multidisciplinary team of engineers, market strategists, operators, product leaders, and advisors. Their combined experience spans secure software architecture, artificial intelligence, trading systems, hardware development, customer experience, and business growth.
This breadth allows us to approach the platform as a complete ecosystem, one designed to be intelligent, secure, resilient, and aligned with the people who use it.
LEADERSHIP & BUILDERS
The team building the system
Robert Evans
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER
Robert was a Principal Level Engineer with Microsoft leading an international team working on Windows technologies. He has over 25 years of software development experience.
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Mark Lamport-Stokes
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mark has extensive experience in journalism, copy editing, broadcasting and communications, having worked in this sector for 40 years as a reporter, sub-editor, play-by-play commentator, cricket writer and golf writer with television networks, newspapers, international wire agencies, radio stations and magazines. Most notably, Mark worked with Reuters as golf correspondent for 14 years.
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Adam Sugalski
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Adam is a graphics and user experience designer. He specializes in creating clean designs, intuitive experiences and simple forms that help users engage with content easily. He firmly believes that design should be accessible and usable for everyone: not just for the average user. Adam is an FAA-certified drone pilot and he also does commercial aerial photography.
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Sarah Berrier
CORE ENGINE DEV LEAD
After earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Sarah became an engineer before joining Microsoft where she worked on the Bing search engine for six years. She was then employed as a senior engineer at Tableau software where she worked on a low-level platform team focused on refactoring a large c++ code base to be more modular and extensible.
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Dost Muhammad
SENIOR DEVELOPER
Dost Muhammad is a seasoned technology professional with over 25 years of experience in software development and a decade as a solution architect at Microsoft. His expertise spans across a variety of fields, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, with a particular focus on applying these technologies in healthcare, finance, and disaster management. Dost is recognized for his ability to design and implement scalable, high-quality software solutions while translating complex business needs into technical specifications. He is also a passionate mentor and collaborator, known for sharing his extensive knowledge with peers. Additionally, he holds academic qualifications in AI and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. focusing on Explainable AI for medical image processing.
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Brian Seifert
DIRECTOR OF ASSET MARKET STRATEGY
Brian bridges traditional business operations and digital asset markets, bringing entrepreneurial experience, XRP expertise, and practical adoption strategy to the Alchemy Crypto team.
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ADVISORY BOARD
Independent experience around the table
Mike Willis
ADVISORY BOARD DIRECTOR
With over 30 years' experience in engineering, technical services and go-to-market strategies, Mike is a proven technology leader who has consistently driven successful programs in software development and service delivery. His expertise spans project portfolio management, cloud computing and agile methodologies, resulting in technological advancements for various multinational corporations.
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Mark Edwards
ADVISORY BOARD
Mark Edwards has led multiple global aerospace and technology teams ensuring the success of Boeing and Microsoft’s Fortune 500 customers.
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Christophe Nasarre
BOARD - SECURITY LEAD
In addition to developing and shipping software on Microsoft stacks for 30+ years, Christophe Nasarre has been working as a Technical Reviewer for MSPress, Addison-Wesley and other publishing companies since 1996 on books such as "CLR via C#" and most notably "Windows Internals". His last book is the second edition of "Pro .NET Memory Management".
He is recognized as an Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies) and is currently implementing a .NET continuous profiler at Datadog.
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Rick Noland
ADVISORY BOARD
Rick Noland is a seasoned business consultant and executive coach based in St. Augustine, Florida, with over 40 years of experience. He began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Ernst and later held senior roles in Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. and its affiliate, Southeast Industrial Equipment. Under his leadership, Southeast Industrial Equipment grew annual sales from $15 million to over $50 million. Since 2010, Rick has focused on business consulting and coaching, helping companies scale, improve operations, and achieve growth across various industries. He is also a Certified Scaling Up Coach and a CPA.
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