Our team has top professionals with experience in gaming and blockchain, people passionate about their profession and dedicated to improving experiences using video games and technology.

EXECUTIVES

Isidro Quintana: co-founder, CEO and Art Director

+13 years in the technological and audiovisual innovation industry. Some of his milestones achieved are: being awarded Best Startup in the Canary Islands, having raised several rounds of investment, building a successful video game company Promineo Studios (and exit), working with the best entertainment companies such as Disney, Warner, Marvel, DC, Mattel, Activision, Garfield and Crayola, getting a game featured worldwide by Apple and showing an indie game as one of the best in the world in 2015 at paxEAST, being a TED speaker or having won a Goya with an animation film.

He studied graphic design and audiovisual communication at CICE, Blockchain in Oxford and conflict resolution at Stanford University.

Currently a founding member of the Oxford blockchain foundation oxbc.io

Ricardo Varela: co-founder and CTO

Computer Engineer graduated with Extraordinary Award (Summa Cum Laude) and with 9 years of professional experience, including AI research projects to help with cancer prevention. Specialized in game development, his hobby for over 20 years, made his own game engine to break into the industry.

Has worked on medium and Triple-A games, PC and consoles, on gameplay and core technology.

Some credits include Tom Clancy’s The Division at Ubisoft Massive, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles for Ubisoft, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow PC port for Konami, Harry Potter license Wonderbook game for Sony and EyePet & Friends at Climax Studios for Sony London.

Ricardo has left his AAA gaming career to co-found this new startup.

Sebastien van der Geld: COO

Chairman of the E-Sports and Gaming Foundation in the Netherlands. He is a polymath with a keen interest and extensive experience in IT, business and law.

He has experience working as an IT Business Analyst and acted as a Blockchain Ambassador. He also has experience representing an EU Media Association vis-a-vis the European Institutions (European Parliament, European Commission) on topics such as intellectual property, net neutrality, and privacy.

He has a background and degrees in European law (LL.B)  and Dutch law (LL.M). His research specifically focused on the legal status and licensing of virtual assets in video games such as Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. He recently finished Oxford Said's Business School's: Blockchain Strategy Programme and is one of the Founder Members of the Oxford Blockchain Foundation.

Juan Pablo Ordoñez: Gaming Advisor

Began his professional career in the video game industry more than 19 years ago. Over the years he has published more than 70 titles, from mobile games to virtual worlds, educational games, experimental games, and educational applications, and designed systems that mix animation series and video games.

He works as a headhunter or headhunter for international recruiting agencies in the sector. He works as a consultant for companies in the development, direction, and design of video games as well as interactive experiences and gambling.

Research on game design and emotions. He teaches design and video game creation in the master's courses at the Complutense University of Madrid, Alcalá de Henares and ECAM, among other training centers with which he has collaborated. He gives classes on game design, levels and production at ESNE in the Official Degree in Video Game Design and Development.

ADVISORY BOARD

Steven Dobesh: Blockchain strategic Advisor

Formerly worked at the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the Technology & Innovation Chief for the Logistics Directorate. In that role he was the Joint Staff Subject Matter Expert on Blockchain, architected and led the first Department of Defense blockchain pilot to secure the digital thread of additive manufacturing (3D printing) and established and led the DoD’s only Blockchain Community of Interest focused on widespread adoption and implementation.

Steven routinely gives speeches to Industry addressing the DoD’s use of blockchain. Prior to being assigned to the Pentagon, Steven was a Navy pilot. He has over 17 years of military and leadership experience, including multiple deployments to the Middle East, Western Pacific, and South America.

He is Co-Founder and President of True-Tickets Leveraging Hyperledger Blockchain technology, True Tickets is a Digital end to end, secure ticketing provider connecting artists and fans.

Raul Kripalany: Blockchain Technical Advisor

Blockchain, Distributed Systems and Data Engineer with 10+ years of strong Open Source background. Working as a Core Engineer at Protocol Labs, working on libp2p. He is a committer and PMC in Apache Camel and Apache Ignite. Has a BSc Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence @ the University of Southampton, UK (FIRST, equiv. Summa Cum Laude).

He is the founder of the EthQL project at ConsenSys, an extensible GraphQL interface to Ethereum.
He has worked with: Audi, Richemont, Vodafone, Telenor, Rhätische Bahn, Avinor, Statnett, Red Hat, GÉANT (EU project), GridGain, Interdiscount, Telefonica, Gobierno de Canarias, Swisscom, Atresmedia (Antena 3), Cabildo de Tenerife, Universidad de Chile, Sobrado AG, Xchanging, TOP-TOY A/S.

Montse Guardia: Blockchain strategic Advisor

General Director at Alastria, the biggest blockchain consortium in Spain, with 20 years of experience managing the delivery of innovative programs & operations. Working in Global Corporations, Montse has dedicated the last 5 years to build bridges between Start-ups and Corporations Worlds, working closer to teams approaching the use of cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneur competencies as means to deliver new service models.

She has delivered organizational transformation programs. Before his current role at Banc Sabadell, as Software Engineering Services Director at Technip, she led a worldwide team to manage globally the IT Projects Portfolio, providing key business strategic software applications according to needs.

Prior, she was Chief Operations Officer of Atos Origin for South America, and she has been responsible for the IT Services management of Major Events (4 Olympic Games, Pan-American Games, and several World Cups and UN Summit). She has a working and living experience in 7 countries and 4 continents. She is a regular contributor to mentoring programs and staff member of social innovation programs.

Xavier Verdaguer: Innovation Advisor

He is a serial entrepreneur, an expert in innovation and e-commerce.  Born in Barcelona and located in Silicon Valley, in the last 16 years he has launched many technology companies based on innovation. In 1997 he founded his first company, TMT Factory, and BCN Media, which offers software and communication services.

The arrival of the crisis in the technology sector in 2001 led the company to an international level with more than 50 employees and customers such as Gas Natural. Deutsche Bank, Barceló and JCDecaux.

In 2009 he relinquished his position as director and in 2010 launched his first company in Palo Alto, Innovalley, a company that develops intelligent objects combining Barcelona's creativity with the latest American technology. He also founded a software development company and the Imagine Creativity Center in Silicon Valley, whose main goal is to generate disruptive ideas to change the world and the way we live.