Geoff McCord’s professional career spans 33 years as a senior financial and operations level executive for several financial organizations, including 11 years at Connor, Clark and Co., a Toronto based investment dealer where Geoff served as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations and 10 years at IPC Financial Network Inc.
At IPC Financial Network Inc., a publicly traded financial services consolidator, Mr. McCord served in a number of roles including Executive Vice–President and Chief Operating Officer, as well as President of IPC Securities Corporation, IPC’s Investment dealer. Mr. McCord also spent four years as Managing Director of Thorn Tree Technology Corporation, a start-up technology firm focused on developing light-weight materials for applications in the automotive industry.
Geoff holds a B.Comm from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and is a CPA,CA.
Mr. Cihelka has extensive experience working with and developing Web3 protocols and applications. He is an Electrical & Computer Engineer, and a registered Professional Engineer with APEGA. Mr. Cihelka was the Company’s Director of Engineering. He is a co-founder of Vault32, a Filecoin storage provider and decentralized infrastructure provider, and a senior software engineer at Protocol Labs, a company focused on building decentralized protocols powering the next generation of the Internet.
Mr. Stevens is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder with over a decade of experience in the capital markets, first as an investment analyst with Salman Partners Inc. and subsequently as a merchant and investment banker. While at Salman Partners, he became a top-rated analyst by StarMine for the metals and mining industry. Mr. Stevens was also a Portfolio Manager registered with Wolverton Securities Ltd. and over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in assisting in financings and mergers and acquisitions activities worth over $1 billion in transaction value. Mr. Stevens has been an advocate and participant in the crypto asset industry and was a principal of Digital Asset Management Corp., a private start-up, developing a cryptocurrency holdings company with the objective of providing investors with a convenient and more liquid way of gaining exposure to the cryptocurrency sector without sacrificing security.