Masterbrews | Meet Our Team

Co-Founders

Keith

Bussey

MasterBrews-Varius

An experienced techpreneur with over 20 years in the online industry, Keith’s strengths lie in his resourcefulness, creativity and work ethic. As an aggressive CTO who delivers results, he has helped build, scale and guide companies in ecommerce (over $1B in sales), dating and mobile gaming - just to name a few.

PERSONAL

A thrill-seeker at heart, Keith is passionate about Animal Welfare causes and loves his dog above all else. He definitely enjoys sipping a quality brew, or three!

Adam

Hudani

Tilting-Shock

Adam has held numerous senior level positions such as Chief Operating Officer, VP of Ops and Head of Operations for companies across numerous verticals such as i-gaming, ecommerce and social gaming. Adam has helped numerous companies grow from start-up status to industry leaders generating over $300M in revenue.

PERSONAL

Adam is a proud father of twins and likes to spend his free time going on hikes and catching up on the latest movie with his family.

Team members

Alin

Popa

Dasking

Alin is a senior full-stack software engineer, teaching assistant, and graduate researcher. Passionate about computer science and innovation,Alin has been consistently delivering great software solutions.Alin is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Financial Machine Learning, and has multiple IEEE-indexed research articles on cryptocurrency and neural networks.

PERSONAL

Besides being an avid reader and an aspiring writer, Alin loves cooking and he's always eager to try recipes from all around the globe!

Jason

Silvert

ThePenguinVA

Better known as ThePenguinVA, Jason specializes incustomerrelations management and acts as acommunity manager and occasional client liaison for MasterBrews. Prior to MasterBrews, Jason spent a decade as tech support with Apple. Previously Jason spent 10 years as a manager with Blockbuster Video. Jason has over 20 years of customer satisfaction experience.

PERSONAL

1 fiancé, 1 child and 4 cats keep Jason occupied when he is not engaging in NFT-related duties. A pop culture and current events junkie, Jason is happy to discuss just about anything in the news with you.

Jay

Jay Ito

Jay is a talented developer with over 6 years of experience in blockchain development across multiple blockchains developing Dapps, Defi, Dex and marketplaces for NFTs. He likes to share experiences with his team members and inter-project communication.

PERSONAL

Jay loves swimming and traveling with his family. He also likes to learn new skills in his free time.

Dr.BouMa

Dr.BouMa is a Physicist with extensive studies in Particle Physics and Theoretical Cosmology, in which he has obtained a MSc and PhD, respectively. His hobbies, which include video and board gaming and early alpha testing, have made his consultation valuable to related projects in the cryptocurrency space.

PERSONAL

In his free time, Dr.BouMa enjoys video games and keeping up with the latest trends in the crypto space.

Medina

jpmm21

Medina AKA jpmm21 is a young Cuban doctor who after fighting Covid-19 during 2021, was reborn as Web3 enthusiast. Medina now acts as Community Manager for MasterBrews.

PERSONAL

Hardcore gamer and cinephile, grew up building PCs with scrap parts that’d he could find in the scarce Cuban economy. Just a young man full of decentralized dreams trying to make them happen

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Nick

Mcdonald

A skilled and accomplished web developer. Nick has held numerous senior developer positions with some of the largest companies in their respective fields such as PokerStars and Tesco. Nick is currently the Founder and CEO of Game Mechanics

PERSONAL

Nick is an avid outdoorsman who, rain or shine, can often be found running, or riding his mountain bike around the picturesque Isle of Man.

Mike

Ackerman

Michael Ackerman has been heavily involved in the blockchain and crypto space since its early days. Having successfully founded and sold multiple startups in the space as well as advised many projects from their infancy to product release. He was the principal angel investor in Masterbrews and now serves as the Chief Partnerships Officer.

PERSONAL

From children's charities to animal rights movements, Michael's philosophy of "giving back more to the world than you take" has been center to his actions since childhood.

Steve

Tcherchian

A renowned security expert, Steve routinely conquers a complex variety of challenges across global, multicultural environments. Boasting a rare blend of visionary leadership, technical expertise and business savvy, Steve prides himself on “bottom line”, revenue driven results while adhering to his own high standards.

PERSONAL

Steve is a devout father and family man who fancies himself a globe trotter, Steve has likely sampled beer in more countries than the rest of the team combined.

Timothy

Jooste

Tim has spent most of his successful career building a running large Sales organizations for mid size to Fortune 500 companies. He has a personally developed 100s of leaders and helped recruit teams of 500+ sale people producing 100-200 million per year in tech sales. Tim specializes in cultivating an amazing work environment and culture as well as finding and developing leaders. Tim began his career as a door 2 door salesman and has risen to the top of each company he has worked for while also winning numerous national awards including the nationally recognized Gold Stevie Award forSales Director of the Year in the United States!

PERSONAL

Tims passions and investment have always been focused in the realm of crypto and gaming and is now putting his almost 29 years of experience in building highly successful organizations into building Koin Games!