Today we start a series of three articles to introduce the members of the SelfKey team.

As you can see above, our team is divided in four macro areas:

Growth, which includes Management, Marketing, Sales and Business Development Departments.

Design & Development

Legal & Compliance

Advisors

The first part of the series is the Core Team, which includes both Growth and Technology Areas:

I’m Edmund Lowell, the founder who is writing this article. Before SelfKey, I built KYC-Chain.com and before that I learned KYC was a pain from my work building FlagTheory.com, Incorporations.io, Passports.io, Residencies.io. I also founded startups ReactCRM, and Ring.Md— I like building tech startups.

I’ve also been the CFO of Iglu, a technology development shop in Thailand that grew under my watch from 10 to now over 150 developers. It was at Iglu that I met Joonas, our lead developer and VP of engineering.

Joonas Routsalainen is the most solid and dependable developer I’ve ever met. During Airswap’s token sale, the guy was pushing changes to their app from the hospital while his baby was sick and undergoing treatment (she wound up fine, as did the Airswap token sale). Joonas is full stack .js dev but knows just about every obscure programming framework you can think of.

Andre Goncalves is another level from most developers. He is a super talented full stack developer who can take broad concepts and deliver working code. Andre helps build our most complex frameworks and API’s.

Giorgi‘s— we actually have 3 Gio’s on our team. We refer to them as original Gio (Giorgi Maisuradze), Giorgi Burduli, and Giorgi Merabishvili. Apparently a lot of people are named ‘George’ in Georgia. Anyway, all of our Gio’s are amazing but Gio Maisuradze wears the team leader hat in Georgia.

The amazing thing about the Georgian team is they have already built an identity based system for a government, and leverage this experience daily. In Georgia you can get a residency, bank account, company, company bank account — in one afternoon. Our guys literally built this system.

Levan Basharuli — Levan is a really talented backend developer who has built a lot of the integrations, API work and dynamic configuration setps.

Anyway — rounding out the Georgian team is Levan’s much cooler relative Vamekh, Aslan, Alexander Garibashvili (who works when he can pick the tech), Tornike Gegsidze, Tato (Mchedlishvili) and Dito (Dimitri Orgaishvili).

Charlie and Amelia are Co-Op students from Northeastern who were on the team full time for a lot of the journey, but are currently part time as they finish school. We have another one or two NU Co-Ops joining us in January.

Jon Myers is Kyser Soze. Who is Keyser Soze? Well, according to wikipedia,

Keyser Söze has become synonymous with a feared elusive person nobody has met

Jon has incredible credentials, over the last 20 years, Jon has consulted with Goldman Sachs, General Electric, Billboard Magazine, the government of Dubai, and he’s designed a bank from scratch in Vietnam, numerous fintech projects, is a thought leader in the digital nomadism space, who pretty much made Ho Chi Min city a place to start a startup. Jon has his pick of what products to work on, yet he chose to work on SelfKey.

Ryan Zander is half iOS developer, half yogi. He is a vegetarian and generally a really great guy. He also delivers proficient, clean Swift code on demand.

Jasspreet Kullar — Jass is a utility player who is happy to get his hands dirty with any technical task, from devOps to sysAdmin work to pushing pixels.

David Sag’s official title is “Blockchain Tsar”. I’ll leave it at that.

Carlos Bruguera is from Venezuela and is so good, we relocated him across the world to our Asian HQ. Testament that we will move the best, to Asia.

Vi Ton Ho comes from Vietnam and is really a team of about 20, as she comes with an entire design and development firm capable of web and mobile apps.

Marius Tagalu is a full stack developer located in European time zone who helped put together a lot of what you see in the marketplaces.

Kelvin Tomo is a staff member we met in Japan, and he just kept closing deals for us… He is a really hard worker and we are lucky to have him in Tokyo!

Marc Gras is a full stack marketer, capable of running content across several languages, ads, communicating, all things marketing and more.

Som Siriprapa is a designer who creates web and mobile artwork & design.

Simon Pilkington is capable of delivering both marketing and technology and helps us with business development, marketing advice and much more.

Mark McGinn didn’t make it onto that slide above (sorry Mark!) but helps out with community, outreach and sales while being located full time in Asia.

Zach Garman is an ex-management consultant based in Hong Kong who helps manage relationships with clients and works on product making sure that product feedback cycle comes from those who matter most: our users.

Bryan Blair is a marketing expert with decades of experience delivering content across web and mobile. He is also a crypto enthusiast and early adopter who helps us spread the good word about self sovereign identity.

Ari Propis makes sure the beans are counted properly and brings a level of fiduciary responsibility to the foundation. Ari is a licensed CPA with experience at big firms and keeps his own practice working part-time.

Simon Beirling is a growth hacker, capable of penetrating the underwebs of reddit, and twitter — where he previously held a full time position.

Vic Dorfman is a content marketing expert who helps guide us with advise on how and where to get the word out.

Drew White is an animation genius capable of taking complex concepts and making them understandable — in less than 5 seconds. Bumper magician.

Uzzel and Angeline are community managers and support staff who help compliment our growing community.

Tomorrow we will follow the article series with our legal team. If you want to talk to any of us, you can find us at our Telegram group, it will be a pleasure to have a chat with you.

Remember that our Pre-Sale starts on Friday December 15th, and only whitelisted addresses will be eligible to participate.

To whitelist your address, register an account at token.selfkey.org

For further information on the Token Sale, you can either read our previous blogpost, check the official website or download the SelfKey Token Sale Deck.