Team
The people and partners behind hardware-enforced AI safety.

Ibrahim Vandenberg
CEO, Chief Architect
Founder
Creator of the Evrmind Architecture.
Six published research papers on Zenodo. Systems architect and award-winning salesperson.
Identified the gap between software guardrails and real hardware enforcement, and built the full pipeline independently on an FPGA.
CTO
Signed, joining at first close
Twenty years in senior silicon roles at Arm, Intel, Broadcom and Imagination Technologies.
Erin Hales
Lead Cryptographer
Signed, joining at first close
Post-quantum cryptography and FHE. Ex-Optalysys. PhD Royal Holloway.

Numan Cheema

Max Acsinia
Vivarium Labs
Early Technology Partner & Venture Studio
Commercial execution, operations and procurement.
Silicon architecture
Chip architecture and hardware design expertise from a former Graphcore chip architect.
Innovation and systems
Innovation strategy from Plexal, with standards development and formal systems expertise including IEEE P1800 and SystemVerilog.
Security and cryptography
Twenty years of senior engineering experience at Intel, focused on physical unclonable functions and hardware cryptography.
Mathematics and data analysis
Research expertise in topological data analysis and the mathematical foundations behind the architecture.
AI research
Machine learning research and applied AI experience, including work with a leading AI research group.