The people holding the keys.

JB founded Veldris on a single conviction: sovereignty is not something a vendor grants you, it is something you hold. As chief executive, JB sets the company's direction and owns its promise, everything open, everything post-quantum, everything on your hardware.

Previously JB founded Kryotech, the encrypted-application studio behind Vox Messenger, the first post-quantum encrypted messenger, protecting 400,000+ users worldwide, and Djinn Technologies, creator of SpatialScan3D, an end-to-end volumetric 3D video production system. Kryotech's sealing work survives inside Midgard as the Seal action.

A former senior lecturer in computer science at Ravensbourne and a member of the British Computer Society, JB builds in the Midlands and argues for the right to privacy anywhere that will listen.

James co-founded Veldris and leads strategy: positioning, partnerships and the path to the institutions that need sovereign infrastructure most. Where the platform is built to be read, James makes sure the right people read it.

James founded Crypto AM in partnership with City A.M., which in 2018 became the first mainstream publisher with a regular focus on AI, blockchain, digital assets and Web3, and was named Blockchain Advisor of the Year at the 2022 AIBC Awards. In 2024 he launched The Digital Commonwealth, a news, education, events and venture platform whose Mansion House Series and awards have hosted 368 speakers, 1,696 delegates and 786 companies, with the flagship CONV3RGENCE London returning in 2027.

He is also co-founder and chairman of Kithe Technologies, strategic advisor for international expansion at Datavault AI, and a global ambassador for World Mobile and CUDOS.

Alan has been shipping software at civilisational scale for over four decades. As chief technology officer, he holds Veldris to the standard he helped invent: products built to dominate their category and still be running forty years later.

In 1980 he became Microsoft's first Product Development Manager, reporting directly to Bill Gates: he contributed to Word and Excel, designed Microsoft Project, wrote the initial specification for Windows, introduced Flight Simulator, and in 1982 opened Microsoft's first overseas subsidiaries in the UK, France and Germany.

Since then he has been CTO of CyberLife, the Cambridge artificial-life pioneer; a director of Bay Microsystems China, whose InfiniBand networking carries data for some of the world's most secure networks; founder of Rich8 Group; an advisor to Chinese ministries on national smart-city programmes; and a non-executive director across four decades of listings on the LSE, NASDAQ, NYSE and ASX.