Barrister. Asset manager. Investment banker. Twenty-five years building technology, commodities, and finance enterprises across four continents.
One conviction throughout: economic freedom requires both trust and trustlessness, each disciplining the other. Trust enables efficiency. Trustlessness enables freedom. Without choice, one dominates, and dominance breeds extraction.
The Work
As CEO of QPQ AG in Switzerland, I lead the team that built the Gajumaru: the world’s only governance-free resource layer. Now operational. While others produced whitepapers and promises, we delivered an actual blockchain that actually works, minting real money that really works.
Today’s infrastructure are islands and archipelagos that don’t connect. Every disconnection is a toll booth. We built the ocean: neutral ground where sovereign nations, industries, and enterprises operate with full control, natively interoperable without surrendering sovereignty to intermediaries.
When systems extract too much, users leave. When freedom costs too much, users accept governance. Choice is the point.
Why I Do This
I am often asked why I do as I have done. Why walk away from three professions and the beautifully appointed cells that they offered? Why spurn a procession to the grave lined with wealth, comfort, and ease to run at the great monster of our time: the monolith of fused power and money that is steadily enslaving us and reducing our lives?
Twenty-five of my forty-nine years on this Earth I have dedicated to one idea: that we can open up the global economy, allow everyone to participate, and enjoy the unfettered fruit of their labour and endeavour, wherever they are in the world.
I have seen the horror. I cannot avert my gaze.
Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. They raised children, took holidays, and retired with a pension that meant something. You work harder, earn more in nominal terms, and can barely afford a deposit on a flat half the size. This isn’t about avocado toast or poor life choices. Something fundamental changed.
Currency debasement steals the stored labour of everyone who saves. The silent printing of money. The young cannot afford homes. Families delay children. People work harder than any generation in history and have less to show for it. This isn’t accident. Dependency is the point. A population that cannot survive without institutional support cannot challenge institutional power.
The pathway we’re on is a choice between the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the 1789 French revolution. When you compress and depress and oppress people to the extent that these systems do, when you destroy the value of human capital through the printing of money and the taxation of work, when you fragment and fracture every bond that holds society together, violence is always a choice.
Our position as a team is that we’d really like it if that violence didn’t have to happen.
For My Children (And Yours)
My wife says my children don’t understand how much I love them because I don’t spend enough time with them. She’s right. I live in Switzerland. They grow up elsewhere. I miss the school plays. The football matches. The bedtime stories. I’ve missed years of their lives.
And I tell her: one day, I hope they understand. Not that I was right to be absent. Maybe I wasn’t. But that I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try. That I looked at what’s coming and I couldn’t hand them that world without fighting to build something better.
Here’s the truth that the comfortable class doesn’t want to hear: you cannot buy your way out of a collapsing society. The Tokyo millionaire only exists because Tokyo functions. The Zurich bikes stay unchained because Zurich works. Destroy the society, destroy the trust, destroy the fabric that holds it together, and no amount of money protects you.
I cannot just solve for my family. None of us can. We either solve for all our families together, or we all fail together.
That’s not idealism. That’s arithmetic.
The Man
I’ve been fighting since I was five years old. A high-functioning autist who was just a “difficult kid” before anyone had better words for it. Never took a step back. Never gave up. Never stayed down.
You cannot beat the man who refuses to get off the canvas.
I am that man.
I bridge finance, law, and deep technology with an engineer’s insistence on systems that function and a historian’s awareness that today’s monetary architecture is neither inevitable nor permanent.
Father of five. Husband of one. Never met a Kraken I wouldn’t wrestle.
The man who won’t stay down.
Zug, Switzerland