The Polymesh Association’s core team have backgrounds in finance, technology, and law.
All have experience at Polymath building the first security token platform and spearheading ERC–1400.
Recognizing the need for an independent security token blockchain, the core team oversaw the architecture and launch of Polymesh.
Chris Housser is the Head of Strategy for the Polymesh Association, a not-for-profit entity dedicated to the growth of the Polymesh protocol and ecosystem. He’s also the Co-Founder of Polymath, the security token technology platform which developed the open-source code for Polymesh.
Prior to Polymath, Chris was a lawyer in downtown Toronto for 4 years. He became fascinated with the blockchain space in 2013 at approximately the same time he started his legal career. Chris advised and assisted many blockchain projects over the years and left the practice of law in early 2017 to pursue crypto full-time.
Adam Dossa graduated from Oxford University in 2001 and began his career building out trading, risk, and regulatory infrastructure for Morgan Stanley. In 2012, Adam took a sabbatical to study for a Masters in Machine Learning at Columbia, focused on statistical learning models and computational learning theory.
Whilst building out machine learning technology for a London based Venture Capital firm, Adam became fascinated with innovative and cutting edge public blockchains and where the technology meets traditional financial infrastructure and products.
Adam joined Polymath in 2018 to help bring blockchain based financial technology to the market and solve some of the fundamental issues in today’s financial infrastructure. Adam Dossa transitioned from CTO at Polymath to the Polymesh Association in 2022, where he is Head of Blockchain and helps drive forward the Association’s technical agenda and mission.
Graeme Moore is the Head of Tokenization at the Polymesh Association. The Polymesh Association is dedicated to the growth and adoption of Polymesh, an institutional-grade permissioned blockchain built specifically for regulated assets. He is also an advisory board member of RedSwan, a marketplace for tokenized commercial real estate; and the author of B is for Bitcoin, the first-ever ABC book about Bitcoin. Prior to Polymesh, Graeme has been the creative director at Spartan Race; an associate at Canada’s largest independent investment advisory firm; and an analyst at one of the world’s largest real estate brokerages.
William Vaz-Jones is the Head of Partnership Development at the Polymesh Association. His responsibilities include educating, onboarding, as well as developing and managing key partnership relationships.
Will joined Polymath in early 2019 after over a decade in traditional finance. He excelled in a variety of roles, including as an analyst covering the energy sector. From there he transitioned into various corporate and business development roles at the largest private asset manager in the world, as well as at a Toronto-based hedge fund specializing in alternative assets. During this time Will completed his CFA and ERP.