Four founders. One outsized founder bench.

Founder of Dragonchain — the first operational hybrid blockchain, designed and delivered at The Walt Disney Company and open-sourced in 2016.

Joe has led groundbreaking projects for Lockheed Martin (FBI/DoD), Disney, and the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense. 30+ years in enterprise systems and security.

Inventor of multiple blockchain primitives: Tokenized Micro-License, Interchain, enterprise smart contract orchestration, TIME-based economic scaling, and behavior-driven AI models. Multiple U.S. patents.

Co-Founder of Apex Fusion (next-generation Layer 1 ecosystem) and Coherence AI. COO of HAL8 — the Abu Dhabi lab that built and maintains Apex Fusion.

Built the commercial department of IOG, the research and engineering firm that architected and deployed the Cardano blockchain. KC native with a global network spanning South America, Europe, and Asia.

30+ years of enterprise software deployments for Fortune 500 firms, governments, and ecosystems. In agentic AI, Tom works with startups and individuals to solve formerly intractable problems at scale.

14+ years building production APIs, web platforms, and cloud infrastructure at scale — from serving 80M+ users at Sprint to shipping production AI-augmented products as a solo engineer.

10x U.S. patent holder (mobile/software). Recent: 1st place at the Cronos PayTech Hackathon for AgentFabric, an AI agent orchestration platform with MCP server integrations.

Founded and scaled engineering at Ebisu’s Bay (Web3 marketplace). Led legacy modernization at North American Bancard: 90% bug-report reduction, 20% velocity increase, 80% test-coverage growth.

Business architect and ecosystem builder with 30+ years designing and executing large-scale economic, infrastructure, and innovation initiatives.

Founder of Initiatives, Inc. and Axis Mundi DAO. Established the Kansas Logistics Park ($20M+ outside funding, one of four U.S. sites awarded BNSF Site Certification). Helped architect EnterpriseKC and the $7.5M State of Kansas BASE grant for a Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

Earlier wins: founder/chair of the 43-business Wichita BIG consortium (Fair Fares — Business Facilities “Biggest & Best of 2002”), Amazon HQ2 RFP for KCADC, anti-terror/disaster recovery exercise for KU Med.