Team

The people and partners behind hardware-enforced AI safety.

The Foundation
Ibrahim Vandenberg

Ibrahim Vandenberg

CEO & Chief Architect

Creator of the Evrmind Architecture.

4 published research papers on Zenodo. Self-taught systems architect and award-winning salesperson.

Identified the gap between software guardrails and real hardware enforcement, and built the enforcement block independently on an FPGA.

CTO

CTO

CTO (signed, joining at first close)

20+ years across ARM, Intel, Imagination Technologies and Broadcom.

EH

Erin Hales

Lead Cryptographer (signed, joining at first close)

Post-quantum cryptography and FHE. Ex-Optalysys. PhD Royal Holloway.

Numan Cheema

Numan Cheema

Max Acsinia

Max Acsinia

Vivarium Labs

Early Technology Partner & Venture Studio

Commercial Execution, Operational Scale & Procurement.

Advisory Board
Chip Advisory

Former leads from major EDA, semiconductor and security companies

Hardware Architecture and Verification
Business Execution

Innovation and commercialisation advisory

Deep Tech Go-to-Market
Research Advisory

University of Liverpool

Topological Mathematics
Research Advisory

Autonomous Intelligence and AI Safety

Post-Quantum Cryptography and FHE
Development Partner

Axiomise

Formal Verification
Development Partner

NextGen Circuits

FPGA Specialists
Research Partnership

Research Partnership with Prof. Vitaliy Kurlin, University of Liverpool (Topological Data Analysis). Advisory board spans backgrounds from Synopsys, ex-Graphcore, Intel, ARM, Broadcom, Cadence, Optalysys, Plexal, and a Yann LeCun co-author.