Our team
Co-Founders Rick and Robo bring a decade-plus partnership that began at a Fortune 500 company in Asia and evolved through co-founding OKURA Labs, which spawned JedAI Nexus.
Our entire team: co-founders, members, and advisors share a history of collaboration across multiple ventures, giving us the trust and chemistry that only comes from building together.
We're fired up to discover the strongest Product-Market Fits for our Small Language Model (SML) alongside strategic partners across different sectors. Post-beta, we're focused on finding the right matches where we can scale together and create real impact.
Co-Founders
Rick Chan, STEM & GMBA
Acting CEO, Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder & Board Member
Rick brings over a decade of deep expertise to the evolving landscape where cryptocurrency, Blockchains, smart contracts and AI converge. His career has been marked by the innovative architecture of algorithmic trading systems and the strategic scaling of machine learning-driven investment methodologies. Throughout his journey, he has guided multiple global ventures from conception through to meaningful exit opportunities, with a particular focus on crypto asset management and emerging digital ecosystems.
Beyond his technical expertise, Rick has cultivated relationships across the venture capital spectrum, from Silicon Valley's innovation hubs to Zug's crypto valley, and from New York's financial corridors to Tokyo's technology centers. His distinctive approach transforms market uncertainty into strategic opportunities. Rick systematically harnesses vanguard technology and rigorous execution to drive product market fit and generate sustainable value in developing markets.and driving sustainable growth in these dynamic developing markets.
Robo Corragáin, STEM
COO, Co-Founder & Board Member
Robo brings two decades of Finance and FinTech experience spanning AI/ML platforms, trading floor IT, company start-ups, consulting and high-frequency trading systems. With Build and Operational experience he has helped incubate a number of companies, including senior roles in the crypto space. Robo has transformed large (continent-spanning) organizations and companies alike to resolve ‘intractable’ problems, organizing them to run efficiently and effectively. Robo is so sensitive to digital hygiene and security that he resists a social media presence.
Christopher Chin
AI Scientist, VP of Product Development & Compliance, & Co-Founder
Chris brings a mix of Finance, FinTech, Technology, BioTech, Healthcare and Defense experience spanning Agentic AI architect, AI/ML platforms, institutional wall street/TradFi to digital asset trading systems and floors, finance and accounting, strategic product development, cybersecurity, compliance and risk. Having held senior roles and consulting across industries in companies from Start-ups to well known Fortune 500, Chris applies a unique blend of development/product/process, operational, cybersecurity, compliance and risk to strategically develop products/processes to operate in challenging regulatory/technical environments across industries and geographies.