William Purpura

Director

William Purpura has extensive leadership and market experience, currently serving his fourth term as Chairman of the COMEX Governors, after becoming a member in 1981. In 1987 he co-founded Great Lakes Metals, Inc., one of the largest brokers on COMEX, with major bullion banks, fund managers and large professional traders as his clients.

Mr. Purpura is one of the first foreigners to establish a trading and technology presence in Mainland China, establishing Northport Commodities in Singapore, serving as an advisor to the Shanghai Gold Exchange, Senior Vice President at NYMEX, and a consultant for CME, HKEx, SFC, CSRC, SHFE, Dalian Commodity Exchange, major banks and brokerages in China and Hong Kong. He is a member the Board of Advisors to the Faculty of Business at the University of Macau.

Mr. Purpura is also a partner at Ridgeline Partners and a global consultant in corporate leadership, fund management and security.Clients include Verizon, AOL, Microsoft, Disney, AIG, and professional sports teams, among others. As one of the founders of Dillon Gage Asia, a distributor for major sovereign mints from the US, Canada, China, Great Britain and others, Mr. Purpura is active in metals markets around the globe.

Stephen Mushahwar

Founder & Director

Stephen I. Mushahwar, is the Founder and CEO of Nahakama Investment Holdings (the principle owner of Orebits Corp.), and a co-founder of Orebits Corp. Mushahwar is a worldwide entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies in various sectors, including banking, insurance, organic fertilizer, software, and technology. Currently, Nahakama Investment Holdings owns and operates a wide array of companies in industries ranging from e-commerce and blockchain technology to marketing, real estate, property management and development.

Mr. Mushahwar gained his initial business experience through the creation of a marketing and cable company. Within three years, his company was sought after by some of the largest cable providers in the country. In the home mortgage industry, Mr. Mushahwar founded a company that in the space of just a few years, he quadrupled in size and subsequently sold to a major mortgage lender in 1997. In every company Mr. Mushahwar has developed, he has demonstrated and proven his leadership, management, and marketing acumen—creating highly successful and profitable companies—then, making a positive exit.

Bruce Youb

Founder & Director

Bruce recently retired as an Independent Insurance Broker and Insurance Agency owner in Canada with 29 years of experience focused on international risks, high risk and financial products. By providing surety and insurance for mining companies in Canada, he gained a solid understanding of the industry. During the last 12 years, Bruce owned and operated a small business: ISource Communications. This company acted specifically as a sales and marketing consultant which helped companies meet sales objectives across international borders.

With Orebits Corp., his primary role as an executive director will be acting as a third party consultant—under contract with the Dominican Republic Firm Hampton Caribbean Corp.—designing, building and implementing international sales and marketing strategies. Using his finance background with international surety and documentary credits, he will be assisting the company and clients with placing their digital assets internationally to create capital for their projects.

Carlos Montoya

Chairman

Mr. Montoya is widely recognized as a skilled Business and Investment Banking Executive with an extensive and successful track record acquiring, managing and building Commercial/Merchant Banking Groups; establishing Credit-based Risk-Management infrastructure; Strategic Capital resource development; and Financial Transaction Structuring. Mr. Montoya is Co-founder of MCM Advisors, LLC, a Bank Service Bureau Platform specializing in management-level infrastructure and support services. He is the Co-founder Tall Ship Partners Fund, LLC, a Private Debt Issuance Platform.

At the helm of Republic Bank of Chicago, Mr. Montoya played a key role in the early growth and development of this highly regarded institution. He was instrumental in helping to grow the Bank’s Core Capital from an initial $10 million to approximately $80 million —further helping to position the institution toward its current $1.5 billion trajectory. Moving forward to capitalize additional charters, he was subsequently awarded two coveted US Treasury Dept. CDFI Certifications.

Mr. Montoya graduated from Loyola University Chicago, BA, Alpha Sigma Nu, and later attended the University of Delaware, Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He sits and/or has sat on the Board of Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois Property Tax Appeals Board (Chairman), Loyola Univ. Medical Center and Republic Bank of Chicago. He previously served in the US Coast Guard (Rt.) and is a past Chairman of the Illinois Property Tax Appeals Board.

Michael Warren

Chief Executive Officer

Michael Warren is a multi-disciplined, proven international executive with C-level management, channel sales and strategic partnership experience globally.

Mr. Warren’s career has been on the front lines channels sales and business development, driving innovation and strategic partnerships throughout the Eastern United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa. His channel leadership at AT&T, Masergy and Telestra Global, expanded the respective businesses in both sales growth and channel reach in the areas of network infrastructure, cloud-based technologies and agile application development.

Mr. Warren furthered his global management expertise and familiarity with he unique needs of a start-up venture, though his position as Executive Director of Channels for INAP. Mr. Warren drove channel expansion, sales and partnering for the company’s high-performance internet infrastructure platforms– blending virtual and bare-metal cloud, hosting and colocation services across a global network of data centers, optimized from the application to the end user and backed by rock-solid customer support and a 100% uptime guarantee.

Mr. Warren graduated from Northeastern University.

Chris Youb

Chief Technology Officer

Chris Youb is a Professional Engineer with 16 years of experience in the Enterprise IT sector covering government, telecom, utilities, education, and banking—primarily focused in Western Canada where Chris serves national customers across Canada as needed.

Chris excels in identifying and proposing vendor agnostic solutions to address complex business opportunities. Engaging customers during the project lifecycle from technical presales, design/ architecture, and development, he can understand, execute, and deliver analytical solutions with a proven record of accomplishment.

Chris has experience with a leading-edge storage start-up—from the first stages of formation onward. As a result, he gained unique knowledge and insight into software test design, test automation and software/tool development with adherence to strict requirements and standards. Later engagements included special projects with the military and technical pre-sales in the enterprise space.

Ken Park

Chief Marketing Officer

Ken Park is the Marketing Director for the Nahakama Group of Companies and President of Oktane Media, LLC, the Company’s marketing subsidiary. Oktane delivers state-of-the-art media strategies to an impressive list of consumer brands, including Adobe, Autism Speaks, Atlantic Records, Daimler Chrysler, HBO, the NHL, the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Spalding, and many others. Throughout his career, Ken has played the role of evangelist and pioneer for the use of online video and branded entertainment as a direct marketing and fan engagement tool that strengthens 1-to-1 relationships, builds brand affinity and increases revenues. From a media standpoint, Ken has extensive experience in Blockchain technology.

Prior to Oktane and his time inside the IT industry, Ken was the president of Octopus Media and the key strategist behind the industry’s leading connected disc solution—HyperCD—a patented technology that delivered fully encrypted, high-quality video over any speed Internet connection. Ken also spent 3 years as the Chief Marketing Officer for WebHouse, an IT reseller specializing in storage, security, and hyper-convergence technologies. Mr. Park earned a BS in Finance and Marketing from San Diego State University in California and has also been a regular guest speaker at Pepperdine University’s Executive MBA program.