LEADERSHIP
The team
Our unifying vision is a future of open networks that are decentralized, accessible, and resilient.
CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD
Manuel Stotz
Manuel Stotz joined the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman in August 2025. Mr. Stotz is Founder of Kingsway Capital LLP, an investment fund, having also served as Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager since 2013. Mr. Stotz also recently served as President and Director of the TON Foundation from January 2025 to August 2025. He also serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of a number of private companies, including as Chairperson of Bitcoin mining company Genesis Digital Assets and director of digital asset lender Ledn.
Prior to founding Kingsway Capital, Mr. Stotz was a Director at Al-Eqbal Co., an Analyst at AKO Capital LLP, and a Fund Manager at Taube Hodson Stonex Partners LLP from 2011 to 2015, after starting his investment career in 2008 at Goldmans Sachs Investment Partners. Mr. Stotz holds an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science in 2008.
Veronika Kapustina
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Veronika Kapustina was appointed Chief Executive Officer in August 2025. Ms. Kapustina is the Founder and Advisor to Houghton Street Ventures LLP, an early-stage investment firm launched in partnership with the London School of Economics & Political Science, where she led the firm’s creation, team recruitment, and initial fund launch in September 2019. She also served as an Advisor to the TON Foundation from January to July 2025, providing strategic guidance on organizational restructuring, operational efficiency, and ecosystem stakeholder management.
Previously, Ms. Kapustina was a Technology Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley from 2010 to 2017 in both the United Kingdom and the United States, where she executed over 40 transactions totaling $37 billion in value, including high-profile equity and debt raises and M&A transactions for leading technology companies. She has held directorships at several private companies, including VK Strategies Ltd and Reframe Venture Ltd, and served as a board member of ClearAccessIP LLC.
Sarah Olsen
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER &
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Sarah Olsen was appointed Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer in August 2025. Ms. Olsen most recently served as Co-founder and Managing Partner of Europa Digital Assets Limited, where she led the firm’s alternative investment strategies focused on market-neutral, relative value, and derivative strategies across global cryptocurrency markets from 2022 to 2025.
Prior to this, Ms. Olsen was the Global Head of Corporate Development for Onyx by J.P. Morgan, J.P. Morgan’s digital asset group, from 2020 to 2022, where she was responsible for strategic investments, partnerships, and product development in the blockchain and Web3 sectors. She has served as a director for several entities, including Europa Digital Assets Limited, Europa Opportunistic Master Fund, and Europa Opportunistic Offshore Fund. Earlier in her career, Ms. Olsen spent time in corporate and business development with digital asset exchange and custodian Gemini and marketing with asset management firm Apollo.
Board Members
Nicolas Cary
Nicolas Cary joined the Board of Directors in August 2025. Mr. Cary is the Co-Founder of Blockchain.comand has served as Vice Chairman of Blockchain.com Group Holdings since Blockchain.com’s inception in 2013. Mr. Cary is also the Founder Commissioner of Blockchain Commission for Sustainable Development and the Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Board of SkyTheLimit.org, a digital platform for underestimated entrepreneurs. Mr.Cary was a founding partner and manager of customer operations of PipelineCRM, a SaaS platform, from 2007 to 2013. Previously, he also taught English and participated in poverty reduction assessments in rural India.
DIRECTOR
Evan Sohn
Evan Sohn joined the Board of Directors in August 2025. Mr. Sohn has served as Chief Executive Officer at Aura Intelligence, the SaaS workforce analytics and insights platform, since 2023. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Recruiter.com, a recruiting service platform, from July 2020 through June 2023 and as Executive Chair of Recruiter.com and its successor Nixxy, Inc., from June 2023 through April 2024, having joined the company’s board as Chairman in April 2019. He previously served as Vice President of Sales at Veea Inc., a retail solution company, from 2018 until July 2020. Prior to joining Veea Inc., from 2015 to 2018, Mr. Sohn served as the Vice President of Sales at Poynt Inc., a payments platform. Prior to that, Mr. Sohn was the Vice President of Sales at VeriFone, Inc., a company designing, marketing, and servicing electronic payment systems. Mr. Sohn is also the co-founder and Vice President of the Sohn Conference Foundation, a non-for-profit dedicated to the treatment of childhood diseases.
DIRECTOR
Rory Cutaia
DIRECTOR
Rory J. Cutaia joined the Board of Directors in 2014 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of our Global Digital Media Division. Mr. Cutaia founded the company as Cutaia Media Group, LLC in 2012 and thereafter served as Chief Executive Officer until August 2025. Prior to that, from October 2006 to August 2011, Mr. Cutaia was a General Partner and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Corinthian Capital Group, Inc., a private equity fund based in New York City that invests in middle-market, U.S. based companies. During his tenure at Corinthian, from June 2008 to October 2011, Mr. Cutaia was the co-founder and Executive Chairperson of Allied Fiber, Inc., a company engaged in the construction of a nationwide fiber-optic network, and from June 2007 to August 2011, Mr. Cutaia was the Chief Executive Officer of GreenFields Coal Company, a company engaged in the deployment of technology to recycle coal waste and clean-up coal waste sites. Before joining Corinthian, from January 2000 to October 2006, Mr. Cutaia founded and was the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of The Telx Group, Inc. (“Telx”), a company engaged in the telecom carrier inter-connection, co-location, and data center business, which he sold in 2006 for more than $200 million. Before founding Telx, Mr. Cutaia was a practicing lawyer with Shea & Gould, a prominent New York City law firm.
Tucker Highfield
Tucker Highfield joined the Board of Directors in August 2025. Since 2023, Mr. Highfield has served as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Genesis Digital Assets, an industrial scale Bitcoin mining company. He previously served as Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Equity Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from August 2018 to March 2023. From 2013 to April 2018, Mr. Highfield was Head of Equity Syndicate, Asia Pacific, at Credit Suisse, responsible for the distribution, structuring, and pricing of equity transactions including IPOs, equity-linked transactions and private placements across the Asia region. Mr. Highfield previously held other roles in finance, including Head of Southeast Asia and Director in North Asia Equity Capital Markets for Credit Suisse First Boston.
DIRECTOR
Special Advisor
Peter is the CEO & Co-Founder of Blockchain.com, a financial technology and data company that has empowered millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Under his leadership, Blockchain.com has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology. He is a WEF Technology Pioneer, is regularly featured in major global media, and is a speaker at the highest profile technology conferences.
SENIOR BOARD ADVISOR