John Galinski, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, electrical engineer whose career spans hardware-level systems work, software architecture, enterprise systems delivery, and large-team IT leadership. Started his career with U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance for direct chip-level design and programming for submarine sonar systems and fighter jet electrical systems. Subsequently executive IT roles across Cablevision, Snapple, and Reuters/Westinghouse, Global Director at a London foreign exchange firm, then Chief Information Officer at Bloomberg (Geller & Co.) for 13 years. Left Bloomberg to co-found CyVolve, then QSecGrid. Co-inventor on multiple patents. John triangulates business, engineering, financial, and operational requirements into delivery. Concept through enterprise-wide systems design, deployment, and management.

Shawn Chandler is the Executive Vice President of Innovation & Markets. Shawn applies his 30+ years of expertise contributing to QGEMS strategy, product development, industry partnerships and client relationships. Shawn is a frequent contributor to industry thought leadership and currently serves as the Vice Chair of the U.S. Dept. of Energy sponsored GridWise Architecture Council, supporting innovation and development of infrastructure, resilience and distributed energy systems in the North American power grid.  He is a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine as an Associate Editor,and served as Chair of the Interoperability Taskforce for the IEEE 2418.5 Blockchain for Energy standard.  Past roles include serving as the founding Chair of the IEEE PES Smart Buildings, Loads and Customer Systems technical committee, and Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities consortium. 

Patrick J. Santos, Director of Intellectual Property and General Counsel, leads IP strategy and legal alignment across the QGEMS platform, including the originating IP work for the QSecGrid daughterboard architecture. Began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft on the Visual C++, original Xbox, and Windows XP teams, named as co-inventor on several Microsoft patents. Subsequently served as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office specialising in cryptography, cybersecurity, and distributed-application systems. Brings decades of experience in IP strategy, technology, and licensing across emerging-growth companies in software, energy, and cryptography.

Nigel Walker is a technology architect and innovator with over three decades of experience designing and scaling advanced energy, data, and software systems. As Managing Director of QGEMS Energy Ltd, he leads the development of our AI-driven distributed energy orchestration platform. Previously, as Vice President of Software & Telematics at Ideanomics, Nigel delivered intelligent energy and charging platforms built on cloud-native and containerized architectures. 

Mark Thompson brings QGEMS a 25-year career spanning software innovation across energy, data systems, intelligent infrastructure, and finance. Mark is the Technical Director at QGEMS, where he leads the design and delivery of the company’s secure, cloud-native technology platform, advanced encryption technologies, and AI-driven forecasting for energy optimisation.

Prior to QGEMS, Mark has held senior software development and architect roles including developing cybersecurity and encryption systems used by NATO and the U.S. military, and major software engineering initiatives supporting SaaS, industrial IoT, and enterprise cloud-transformation for UK’s leading financial software providers and NASDAQ-listed companies. Mark is an active thought leader and lecturer in the domain of quantum computing and cybersecurity, frequently speaking at UK universities and industry forums.