Meet Our Team

Jeremy Mundell
Founding Partner

Jeremy is a recruiting and business development leader with a vision to solve a problem at festivals using the latest breakthroughs in decentralized networks. An autodidact, Jeremy developed extraordinary expertise in building world-class applied sciences teams while playing foundational roles at Facebook AI, Aurora Innovation, Protocol Labs, and Eigenlayer.

Building upon his expertise and connections, his mission is to "connect the network” and bring Totem Grid to life as a service that benefits humanity, solves a problem for himself, and redefines what’s possible with recruiting as a side effect.

Garett Nell
Founding Partner

Garett is an entrepreneur and multi-disciplinary business leader with engineering and product roots. At heart, he is a builder and connector who loves to create. In the beginning, he built with Legos. Then he discovered software and wrote applications to connect people, help them communicate, and have fun online. 

His professional experiences and expertise are broad and deep spanning leadership roles at Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. Most recently, he founded and led the Value Share business unit at Flow.life, an early-stage real estate startup. He’s passionate about advancing equitable and humane technology and the power of human-centric networks.

Ryan Betts
Founding Contributor

Ryan is a zero-to-one design and product leader who sweats the UX of data, security and safety. His 20 year career has spanned frontier tech (Proxxi, Fission),  developer experiences (W3C, Adobe, PhoneGap), and service delivery, from backstage through to polished customer touch points (AT&T). He loves making a tough problem look easy.

A systems-thinker at heart, Ryan’s engineering and business counterparts often joke that he’s “just a designer.” His contributions to UCAN, WNFS and IPVM (Fission, Protocol Labs) and web3 wallet standards (CASA, WalletUncon) have helped shape local-first and self-sovereign experiences from the protocol up.

He brings a unique perspective to Totem Grid, having lived the challenges of music festivals as both a participant and performer.

Alf Watt
Founding Contributor

Alf is a hands-on engineering leader with over a decade of expertise in Wireless Networking & iOS/Mac applications, with experience leading end-to-end development in both zero-to-one apps for startups and large enterprise systems with Apple, Mapbox, and Lucid Motors.

Alf cut his teeth in a decentralized network as the founder of Masu Networks. He has long seen the potential of these technologies as utility networks, believes an edge-first internet is the future, and is motivated by the moral elements of scaling these systems.

Jared Hector
Founding Contributor

Jared is a full-stack web developer drawing upon a Stanford computer science, psychology, and music background to deliver well-polished and consumer-conscious experiences and applications. He poseses a blend of leadership skills, ability to critically think beyond the present, and the ability to bring people and ideas together. He strives to create applications that hit the ground running by never approaching user experience blindly. Viewnify, a recent React project he developed and managed.

John Goldschmidt
Founding Contributor

As two‑time founder who now leads Partnerships at Outlier Ventures, John has spent the past decade extracting clarity from early‑stage chaos. He’s guided dozens of Web3 startups through capital raises, enterprise negotiations, and go‑to‑market pivots, blending sharp product‑market‑fit instincts with a community builder’s touch. Equal parts strategist and operator, he distills complex tech into stories decision‑makers understand, then backs it up with revenue models and operating rhythms that scale.

At Totem Grid, John channels that experience into three priorities: securing the capital that fuels our flywheel, forging festival‑to‑Fortune 500 alliances that expand our reach, and embedding sales‑ops discipline across the collective. Whether he’s structuring a an innovative capital strategy, refining messaging, or opening doors, he’s driven by the same goal: placing p2p tech, community, and unforgettable live experiences on the same vibrant stage.

Sergi Rene Vicente
Founding Contributor

Sergi is a seasoned R&D blockchain engineer and future internet innovator specializing in peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, Named Data Networking (NDN), Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN), blockchain technologies, and beyond. With extensive experience bridging academia and industry, Sergi co-founded DataHop.network, where he architected the foundational networking backend technology well suited to Totem Grid's infrastructure.

His work is marked by a proven track record in software engineering, mobile computing research, and the development of decentralized systems designed to enhance connectivity and data exchange. Sergi holds a Ph.D. from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and previously contributed to groundbreaking research at University College London (UCL).

Based between London and Barcelona, Sergi continues pushing the boundaries of future internet technologies, driving innovation in decentralized networking solutions vital to Totem Grid's mission.

Steven Vandevelde
Founding Contributor

A Fission alum and open‑source builder, Steven ships privacy‑preserving, offline‑first apps at the edge. He’s contributed across the ODD/UCAN/WNFS stack and is the creator of Diffuse, a music player that runs from your own cloud or distributed storage—proof of his long‑standing obsession with p2p, music, and connection. At Totem Grid, he’s channeling that craft into helping friends find each other and stay connected when networks are jammed

After building cutting‑edge p2p tooling at Fission, Steven was looking for a product that lives where his passions meet—p2p systems, music, and connecting friends in the real world. Totem Grid is that canvas.

Chadwick Strange
Founding Contributor

Chadwick brings a builder’s mindset to Totem Grid’s product and agent systems. Before joining, he served as Product Lead of Integrations at Chainlink, and VP of Product at SKALE, publishing technical deep‑dives on consensus, token economics, and the SKALE tech stack, and presenting at ETHBoston, EthCC, and ETHSeattle. He’s especially interested in agentic patterns that make complex systems usable by everyone—starting with crowded, high‑latency environments.

Chadwick has demoed core infrastructure like SKALE’s Ethereum bridge (IMA), led developer sessions, and authored architecture posts that helped teams ship faster on modular chains. That mix of platform depth and product sensibility now fuels Totem Grid’s mission: private, resilient, offline‑first connection that works when networks are jammed

Off the clock, Chadwick is a long‑time DJ/producer, with releases and remixes on Omnis/Desert Trax and credits dating back to the mid‑2000s. Music—and the communities around it—keep his product instincts grounded in real human connection.

Chris Sarbora
Founding Contributor

Chris is a principal-level expert in low-level mobile and XR systems, having shipped products across iOS, Android, and headset stacks. He loves hard problems at the edge—latency, reliability, and performance when pushing the limits. His passion for speed extends beyond code, he’s a decorated road‑racer: the fastest American at the 2023 North West 200 and a longtime competitor on iconic courses from the Isle of Man to Daytona.

Chris and Jeremy first crossed paths on Facebook’s early Seattle campus, where Chris noticed Jeremy’s hackathon project that eventually inspired Totem Grid. After nearly a decade deep in low‑level mobile across Facebook/Meta’s iOS, Android, and Quest (FRL) platforms, Chris was ready for a fresh, inspired vision with room for global innovation—and found it here.

Brian Ginsburg
Founding Contributor

Brian is a senior software engineer. He is expert in the IPFS ecosystem with recent key roles in building decentralized protocols at Fission and Lilypad.

Brian is passionate about building a better internet for humanity with deep interest in advancing privacy and security online.

Franck Rougier
Founding Contributor

Franck Rougier is a seasoned entrepreneur, systems thinker, and hardware innovator with a deep passion for building elegant, real-world technology. He founded Kirio, a Seattle-based IoT company, to bring smart home and energy management systems to the construction industry—designing and deploying both the hardware and software stack from the ground up.

At Totem Grid, Franck brings his unique blend of engineering precision and entrepreneurial creativity to help us bridge the physical and digital worlds through our custom DePIN hardware for live events. He also lends his hard-earned startup wisdom to help guide Totem Grid’s successful launch and long-term growth.

Franck holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University and a Master’s in Sensor-Based Robotics and Controls from NYU. His career spans supply-chain systems, fintech, full-stack product development, and deep 0-1 startup building

Todd Blocksom
Founding Contributor

Todd is a seasoned product and program leader with 20+ years of experience shaping breakthrough consumer technologies, including impactful roles at Apple and Google.

With deep expertise across UX design, mobile applications, data analytics, and AI/ML, he thrives at the intersection of complex systems and seamless user experiences.

At Totem Grid, Todd brings his passion for building intuitive, human-centered technology to the live events space — fusing product leadership with his lifelong love of music and drumming. He’s helping us deliver a network experience that feels magical, empowering, and designed for real-world connection.

Equally at home aligning cross-functional teams around clear OKRs or jamming in a late-night studio session, Todd is driven by curiosity, creativity, and a commitment to building the kind of internet (and world) we all want to live in.

Chris Cowan
Founding Contributor

Chris is a seasoned consultant and leadership development expert who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctorate in Human and Organizational Learning from The George Washington University.

After witnessing the limitations of traditional leadership development approaches—many of which failed to address entrenched power structures—Chris joined HolacracyOne to help pioneer more adaptive and equitable systems of work, driven by a deep commitment to transforming how organizations operate.He has worked with a wide range of commercial, nonprofit, and governmental clients to evolve their management practices, and has taught graduate courses in leadership at both Harvard University and Georgetown University.

At Totem Grid, Chris is helping shape the next generation of self-management infrastructure—integrating governance, trust, and coordination into the core of building human-centered networks. He’s passionate about working on things that matter and is excited to be co-creating a better way to build.

Rosien Van Toor
Founding Contributor

Rosien van Toor is a certified Holacracy coach and organizational advisor with a Master's degree in History, bringing a deep curiosity for how systems, stories, and power structures evolve over time. She has a decade of experience in people & culture roles in self-managed organizations, focusing on modern HR practices and building purpose-driven cultures.

She now brings that same passion for autonomy and collective ownership into the event space, using decentralized social technology to transform how people engage. Her approach isn't just about building systems - it's about cultivating culture and weaving meaningful connections through decentralized frameworks that empower every participant.

Based in The Netherlands, Rosien balances her work with a love for outdoor adventures and endurance sports, whether hiking, camping or long-distance running.

Alex Polyanski
IP Strategy Consultant

Alex is a globally recognized IP strategist (IAM Strategy 300) and former USPTO examiner who has helped shape patent portfolios across domains from biotech to XR. Having overseen 8,000+ patent prosecutions in his career, he’s seen what endures—and why. At Totem Grid, Alex is energized by the technologies powering our offline‑first network and their far‑reaching implications for trusted, human‑scale connection

The mission fuses his passions—strong IP, resilient networks, and bringing people together—into a product with global upside.

Timothy Brandt
Founding Contributor

Tim is Passionate iOS Developer with 10+ years experience leading key projects for Snapchat, Moonware, and Apple. Tim has a love for innovation, and expertise in crafting location-based social networking apps, augmented reality experiences and immersive audio features.

He thrives on transforming ideas into reality and building innovative mobile solutions and is particularly excited about bringing his original vision for NeonAR to life with the Totem Grid Network.

Our Advisors

1. The internet needs networks that prioritize privacy and transparency, which users can trust through openly verifiable systems and community ownership.

2. There is a massive, unsolved problem at live events with hundreds of millions of potential users and billions of dollars in potential revenue in festivals alone.

3. This problem is an ideal application for new breakthroughs in decentralized networks.

4. By solving the problem in this way, we will tangibly demonstrate the utility-value of web3 networks, transforming their global perception.

5. We can build a transparently operated social network that is privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant, and completely funded by utility revenues.

6. We are playing an infinitely positive sum game

We Believe: