About kry10

Boyd is the driving force behind Kry10 and leads technical development, overall strategy, and business.

Boyd is regarded as the Xbox father of invention. He spent over 18 years working for Microsoft and was responsible for Xbox Live, Microsoft’s gaming and entertainment service used by more than 46 million people worldwide. In 2012 he was named as one of Game Developer Magazine's Power 50, a list of people in the game industry who have stood out for outstanding contributions to the industry.

Kent is an operating-systems engineer specialized in formally verifiable trustworthy systems using seL4.

His interests include systems engineering and how using different operating system architectures can help construct trustworthy applications. He previously worked at the Trustworthy Systems Research Group at CSIRO's Data61 where he helped oversee the technical development of seL4 as an OS engineer. Kent graduated from the UNSW Australia in Electrical Engineering and Accounting.

Jason heads our operations including legal, governance and supports business development for Kry10. Jason is a former Chief Executive of three New Zealand post settlement tribal entities and co-founded the first commercial language learning software in NZ – Cultureflow NZ. He advises the NZ government as a specialist advisor on Treaty settlements and transactions and is a business and governance advisor to NZ tribal entities.

As Kry10’s Chief Commercial Officer, Lovina is tasked with growing the business & planning functions at kry10. She is building out the commercial team, managing the capital strategy and business planning. The majority of her 20 year career has been spent working in senior leadership roles in global technology companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Skype. She has always been drawn to emerging technologies and has experience leading product management, sales and marketing and operations teams to find product market fit and drive scalable growth. In recent years she has been working as a General Partner in New Zealand’s largest venture capital fund. She led the seed investment into Kry10 before joining the company in an operating role and relocating back to the US.

Alister is the founder and Managing Partner of Folklore Ventures, an Australian venture capital firm with three top-decile funds under management that invests in ANZ founders building global technology companies. Alister has 20 years of experience as an investor, advisor and founder of technology companies.

Rob Shaddock is an adviser and board member with a number of VCs and startups. He was previously CTO and EVP at TE connectivity where he set the global engineering vision for the company, driving all aspects of innovation and spearheading the digitization of manufacturing. 

Prior to joining TE Connectivity Mr Shaddock served as CTO and SVP of consumer products at Motorola’s Mobile Devices business. Earlier in his career he served as CEO of Blue Wave Systems a developer of leading edge DSP technology for telecommunications and military applications.

J Allard brings more than three decades of technology, engineering, and entrepreneurial expertise as he has built some of the world’s most well-known consumer products and software solutions. Throughout his nearly 20-year career at Microsoft, Allard spearheaded the company's foray onto the internet and into the video game industry as a founder of Xbox. During his tenure as Microsoft’s Chief Experience and Technology Officer of Consumer Product, Allard shipped over 30 products, helping launch several new businesses including Xbox, Windows NT and Internet Information Server.

Currently J Allard is Chief Product and Technology Officer at GoFundMe, responsible for scaling GoFundMe's technology infrastructure and overseeing the product, design and engineering teams.