MetaGravity is led by veterans from the High-Performance Computing (HPC), cloud infrastructure, and games & simulation technology. The leadership team brings decades of experience in building and commercializing scalable technologies, with a proven track record of innovation and execution. The team is currently 65 members strong, with 56 in engineering.
Rashid Mansoor: Co-founder and CEO. Rashid is a deep tech visionary with a history of solving the hardest problems in high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure. Prior to MetaGravity, he founded Adbrain, where he pioneered massive-scale real-time graph processing technology for cross-device profiling. He also led significant advancements in HPC and distributed systems at Hadean Supercomputing, where his innovations were implemented for high-profile clients such as Mojang, Microsoft, USMC, DoD DARPA, and the NSA. He holds several patents in supercomputing, cloud computing, and game engine technology.
Tobin Ireland: Co-founder and CBO. Tobin is an experienced entrepreneur and business strategist with a background in pure mathematics and econometrics, as well as an MBA from Stanford. He has served as a C-level executive at companies including News Corporation, AOL Time Warner, and Vodafone, and has held board director and chairman roles in multiple technology startups in London and Silicon Valley.
Karim Agha: VP of Technology. Karim is a distributed systems engineer, technology innovator, and leader who previously worked as a Principal Engineer at Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Filecoin, and Terraform Labs. He leads the technology team responsible for implementing the Spinor network.
Rafal Gisko: Principal Engineer. Rafal has a PhD and over 15 years of experience in performance-critical computing. Before joining MetaGravity, he worked as a software performance and microprocessor engineer at Intel and conducted FPGA engineering and microelectronics research at both Intel and Imperial College London. At MetaGravity, he focuses on high-performance distributed systems and low-level optimizations for the Spinor network.
Kshitiz Batariya: Network Systems Engineer. Kshitiz studied Computer Science and Engineering at IIT, followed by a 13-year career working on low-level network technologies at Nevis and Cisco. He leads R&D efforts on Spinor’s high-performance network protocols.
Maya Sokolova: Blockchain Engineer. Maya is a world-class engineer specializing in decentralized networks. She has built several blockchains from scratch, including ggxchain, Oxygen, Boosty, and others.
Dave Cooper: Head of Engine. Dave earned a PhD in distributed systems, specializing in gossip protocols and high-coverage broadcast networks. He also served as an associate professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. As a former game developer, he has won six industry awards for his creations. At MetaGravity, he focuses on guiding network correctness and optimization teams.
Toby Allen: VP of Product. Toby is an experienced games industry executive and VR/XR expert, having held roles as CPO, CSO, and VP of Product. He led the Hololens product team at Microsoft, worked on game titles such as Mafia III, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and TopSpin 4, and has been involved in major smart city and digital twin projects in the Gulf and Asia. He has also lectured on product development at University College London.
The $SPNR token underpins all Spinor operations, capturing value from compute workloads and decentralized infrastructure usage. $SPNR is used for gas fees on-chain as well as for every cycle of compute on the Spinor network.
The demand for $SPNR and its commensurate scarcity will rise as more applications are built on Spinor and as per-application usage grows.