Enterprise-Grade Filecoin Storage Infrastructure

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Jonathan Bixby is a serial entrepreneur, active angel investor, board member and speaker. He has raised over $500M USD in venture capital and has created over $3B USD in market capitalization in startup companies around the world.

Jonathan has significant experience in the health care, gaming and fintech sectors, and in particular, was a founder and major investor in Argo Blockchain (ARB), Guild Esports (GILD) and Cellular Goods (CBX) – all listed on the London Stock Exchange. He is also the Executive Chairman of NFT Investments (NFT) admitted to trading AQUIS and he is on the board of Leaf Mobile (LEAF). Prior to this Jonathan was a founder, board member and investor in Koho Financial and Blue Mesa Health (Sold to Virgin Pulse). Previous to this, Jonathan was the CEO of Strangeloop Networks, a networking company which focused on providing hardware appliances in data centres to speed up web-based properties. Strangeloop was sold to Radware (RDWR) in 2013. Jonathan was a founder and Chair of the Board of Ironpoint Technology which provided technology-based content management services. Ironpoint was sold to Active Network (ACTV) in 2006.

In addition to his investing and entrepreneurial efforts, Jonathan has been active with several non-profit organizations. Jonathan is a sought-after speaker on the topics of cryptocurrency, angel capital investing, accelerators/incubators and entrepreneurship.

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Mike Edwards has started and invested in technology companies for over 20 years. Mike invests in smart people with big ideas, and thrives on helping other entrepreneurs turn a napkin sketch into a prosperous business. He has invested in more than 40 technology start-ups including Punch’d, which was sold to Google, Summify, which was acquired by Twitter, Wander, which was acquired by Yahoo and PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel. Mike has co-founded several companies including AreaConnect, which was sold to Marchex and Wylie Interactive, which was acquired by Zynga.

Mike is actively involved in growing and supporting the cryptocurrency start-up community and connecting local entrepreneurs with the right investors, mentors and influencers in Silicon Valley, New York, Europe and Asia. Mike co-founded Growlab, a seed stage accelerator focussing on consumer facing digital product, which later merged with Extreme Startups to create Canada’s Highline accelerator, and co-founded and is a board member of Creative Labs, a venture capital backed start-up foundry that builds consumer technology companies by leveraging the Creative Artist Agency’s access to talent and audience.

Mike was the co-founder and president of Argo Blockchain plc, a company established to provide cryptocurrency mining services and which was admitted to the Official List (by way of a Standard Listing) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market for listed securities in August 2018 with a market capitalisation of £48m] Argo had a market capitalisation of £1bn in February 2021. Argo was the first cryptocurrency company to be admitted to the Main Market.

Mike was also the co-founder of: Guild Esports plc, the first esports business to be admitted to trading on the Main Market; and Cellular Goods plc, the first producer of biosynthetic cannabinoids to join the London Stock Exchange.

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Patrick McBride was a co-founder of Eight Capital and is well known for building Canada's public capital markets. He has raised capital or advised MindMed, Numinus, PsyBio, Cybin Corp, Harvest Health, Willow Biosciences and Charlotte's Web Holdings amongst others.

INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jonathan’s passion for financial services dates back to his university days, where he studied B.A. (Hons) Finance and Investment Management. At the age of 23 he left the UK to begin his journey in International Financial Planning, and having lived and worked in three continents, he has first-hand experience when it comes to cross-border financial planning. Over the last 12 years, he has built up invaluable experience by advising high net worth individuals and family estates, practising all areas of wealth and succession planning. Jonathan prides himself on the service he provides, which is highly personalised, proactive and bespoke to his client’s objectives. He is an active member of the Chartered Insurance Institute, where he holds the Diploma in Financial Planning. In addition, he holds Certificates in i) Discretionary Investment Management, ii) Financial Services and iii) Life and Pensions. He is also qualified as an Investment Adviser in the United States (Series 65) from his time working in New York.

FINANCE DIRECTOR

Nick Lyth is a UK based, experienced finance director and qualified accountant with extensive experience advising quoted companies including AIM listed companies Univision Engineering Ltd, Altona Energy PLC and Taihua PLC. For two years, Mr. Lyth was Group Finance and Purchasing Director of Belle Group, a manufacturer of engineering equipment operating across Europe, the US and Asia. He was also Head of Finance at Fothergill Group, a UK manufacturer of technical industrial fabrics, between 1996 and 2003. In his early career, Nick was a management accountant at Courtaulds plc and Rotunda plc.