As Founder and Managing Director, Chris has helped steered Topl from its inception as an idea to one of Texas's leading blockchain startups. Chris leads the design of the only impact and sustainability focused blockchain in the world and engages with partners and clients across 6 continents. Before starting Topl, Chris obtained degrees in Mathematics, Chemical Physics, and Philosophy from Rice University. During his time at university, he performed research resulting in 3 co-authored papers focused on emergent phenomena in complex systems and developed many of the models that would come to define Topl's blockchain approach.