About Us

J. Gdanski is the Founder and CEO of Evertas, where he has led Evertas’s technical development and underwriting, as well as secured multiple fund rounds from top investors; he is a security, privacy, and risk expert.

Prior to launching crypto insurance leader Evertas, he was a leader in the enterprise blockchain space and was one of the first to work on institutional custody for crypto.  In this capacity he served as an early, significant contributor to blockchain consortia including R3 and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, of which he was a founding member. He was an integral part of the first enterprise blockchain RFP and has worked on numerous blockchain-based systems. He was the first dedicated hire in the space for a bulge bracket bank and the world’s largest custodian bank and has presented to regulators, legislators, politicians, and business executives, including from Fortune 50 companies.

Raymond specializes in the distributed future and the intersection of cryptoassets, financial services, and insurance. He is an experienced technology executive with a proven ability to integrate dynamic problem solving skills, technology depth and entrepreneurial drive.

His 25+ year career includes McKinsey, Accenture, and running consulting, SaaS, and insurance businesses. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and been recognized by both U.S. and Canadian Federal courts as a qualified technical expert witness.

As President, Raymond has led the development and implementation of Evertas’ overall insurance offering and helped secure partnerships with insurers, reinsurers, and brokers.

Mark was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office.

He has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment.

At Evertas Mark sits on the board as an Investor Director.

He has held a range of senior executive roles with AIG, Zurich America and Tower Group. He was founder and Chief Insurance Officer of both Lemonade Inc. and Assurely. He is on the board of Relm Insurance Ltd and advises other companies.

Ty is one of the industry’s most sought-after insurance expert witnesses. He is an author and speaker, and has spoken before various tech, legal and insurance forums including at the White House, Department of Homeland Security and Congress.

Ty’s focuses on our underwriting and insurance product development.

He previously worked as an Analyst overseeing a $4.5B portfolio with responsibilities for developing, integrating, and supporting risk mitigation. Prior to that role, he worked as a Mechanical Engineer designing and implementing systems to support root-cause analysis of laser fibers, systems, and accessories. Erik is a former college ice-hockey player who graduated from Salve Regina University where he earned a BS in Finance, with minors in Business Administration, Economics, and Philosophy.

Alex previously worked as a Senior Associate Underwriter with responsibilities of building broker relationships and underwriting multi-billion-dollar corporations. Within that role, Alex gained a deep understanding of cyber security network controls. Alex is a former college lacrosse player who graduated from Hamilton College where he earned a BA in economics.

Robert is a strategy and innovation professional passionate about the creative application of technologies to clients’ most pressing intelligence problems.

His experience includes Director of Operations for a Big Four firm’s commercial intelligence center. At PwC was instrumental in establishing market intelligence and was a member of the corporate intelligence practice at IBM.

Robert leads our 5i Services group, responsible for delivery and overseeing compliance operations, claims forensics and investigations. The team focuses on the risks associated with corruption, sanctions, conflict, and the vast array of regulatory, policy and business hazards that come with operations in foreign markets.

She has expertise in payment processing and online payments fraud, with broad technical experience spanning program management, risk, product, sales, customer support and government contracts. Most recently she led strategy and new market development at Unit21, a Google-backed company making software to power Anti-Money Laundering programs. She has a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT.

Ryan has been deeply involved in computer security since discovering the Internet, NSA Rainbow Books, and the Cypherpunks mailing list in the early 1990s.

After leaving MIT to co-found an early digital token startup in Anguilla, he set up the world’s first datahaven — on the self-declared independent state of Sealand — to host early digital currency and related projects. Subsequently he spent 7 years working on Iraq and Afghanistan bootstrapping a defense contracting business, working with government and private clients.

Ryan co-founded CryptoSeal, a security technology company developing virtual machine security solutions, which was acquired by Cloudflare. His recent focus has been in cryptocurrency security and infrastructure, serving as Tezos CSO and Foundation Board member, along with a number of other projects.

She is also a visiting assistant professor of computer science at City College, CUNY and the founder of CFAIL, an annual conference for “failed approaches and insightful losses” in cryptology. She was formerly a quantitative researcher at IEX, and an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University, where she co-directed the cryptology research lab. She has a PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, a masters in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Princeton University.

She’s finishing her PhD in computer science at Stanford University, where she received an NSF graduate research fellowship. She starts as an assistant professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science in September of 2022.

His research lies at the intersection of security and programming languages; he is particularly interested in building secure systems that are deployed in production. Stefan was also a co-founder of Intrinsic, a runtime security start-up acquired by VMWare in 2019. Stefan received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union in 2009, M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union in 2011, M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2016. His work has been recognized by multiple awards including distinguished paper awards (POPL 2019, USENIX Security 2020, ICFP 2020, POPL 2021), research highlights (USENIX; login: 2020, SIGPLAN Research Highlight 2021), NSF CAREER award (2021), and a Sloan Fellowship (2022).

Next year, I will be joining Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor, and I will be looking for PhD students! If you are interested in research related to cryptography, security, and software or hardware systems, we might be a good fit. I strongly recommend applying to both the ECE and CS PhD programs, and of course please feel free to send me an email.

Judd Bagley leads strategic communications at Evertas, educating the market about our offerings and the importance of crypto insurance.

Judd  was thrown headlong into the blockchain space in early 2014, as director of communications at Overstock.com, when that company became the first major internet retailer to accept bitcoin for purchases.

Finding himself hopelessly infected by the crypto bug, in 2015 he joined Overstock startup subsidiary Tzero, a blockchain-based tokenized securities exchange platform, as Chief Evangelizing Officer. In that role, Judd spent two years spreading the good news of distributed ledger technology. He went on to oversee marketing for blockchain identity startup Evernym and Netki, a provider of remote AML/KYC services for Web3 companies.

His career has primarily been in (re)insurance and includes roles such as global head of investment operations for a $35 billion portfolio, management of finance, reinsurance and claims functions and advisory for new startups.

Prior companies include AXA XL, Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society, Aon and KPMG.   

Formal education includes an MBA from Queens University and a Bachelor of Business degree from Monash University.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of The Institute of Directors.

Keith meets the needs of the Evertas insurance broker distribution network by leveraging his strong retail insurance broker background. Over the course of his decades in the industry, he has acquired extensive practical experience in identifying risk issues and ​then developing innovative insurance products and services to address them.  In this capacity he has served a wide range of Industries including energy, healthcare, higher education, chemical and technology.

Melanie was VP Finance with Spectra Marketing, a leader in consumer targeting, prior to its merger with AC Nielsen. Previously she was in Internal Audit, Corporate Planning and as Controller of a joint venture start-up with Diebold, Inc., a manufacturer of ATMs and banking equipment.