The Cowrie team is comprised of experts from a variety of industries, blending established business practices and a deep understanding of blockchain technology.
David leads Cowrie with a deep expertise in crypto regulation, entity structuring and taxation. He was formerly a Global Compliance tax executive at a Big Four firm and solo practitioner at Cowrie LLC, which evolved into the Cowrie of today. His vision guides Cowrie’s mission to develop compliant decentralized organizations within the U.S.
Justin directs Cowrie’s day-to-day operations and oversees a multidisciplinary team that delivers end-to-end consulting and administrative solutions for Cowrie’s clients. He brings 12 years of experience as a Big Four assurance senior manager, leading global audit engagements for large, publicly traded companies across the telecom, media & technology, retail and healthcare sectors.
Kyle is a software engineer with experience shipping production software at Tesla, developing autonomous flight systems at Kitty Hawk and running Ledger’s crypto-native technical support team. He now builds tools to analyze smart contracts and blockchain protocols for decentralization risks and architectural patterns that affect network resilience and control.
Victor supports Cowrie Administrator Services, bringing 14 years of experience in Big Four accounting in tech-focused industry roles and the National Tax Practice. He specializes in tax accounting and aligning tax strategy with the operational realities of blockchain, tokenization and Web3 innovation.
Pil is a seasoned tax professional with nearly a decade of experience in Big Four Quantitative Services, specializing in complex compliance and advisory matters. He supports Cowrie Administrator Services, delivering tailored tax compliance and financial solutions to Web3 founders through a proprietary platform designed to support scalable, decentralized growth.
Distinctly recognizable, impossible to counterfeit, durable, uniform in size and easy to carry – cowrie shells met the requirements of a functional currency and provided a reliable means of exchange transcending continents and cultures from the 15th to the 20th century.
Primarily deriving their value from supply and demand, cowrie shells were a mechanism for individuals to store value in an accessible medium. Like the crypto miners of today, the holder of cowrie shells invested their resources and their efforts were rewarded for their work. Ornamentation through polishing and sanding the cowrie shells increased their value because the finishing steps resulted in rarer, more readily authenticated and easily accepted forms of the currency.
Although cowrie shells are still valued today for aesthetic, cultural and spiritual purposes, their use as currency ended in the 20th century due primarily to colonial interests that required the uniform adoption of centralized currency.
Cowrie was named as a reminder that many successful financial systems predate centralization and in recognition that the lessons learned from our shared history can be instructive in integrating the benefits of decentralized financial structures within the investor and consumer protections established by the current regulatory compliance standards.
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