Board of Directors

Robert Gregory Kidd is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hard Yaka since 2010 and, since 2024, the majority shareholder in Vast Bank Holdings, a nationally chartered bank. As an investor, Mr. Kidd provided first money at Twitter, Square (Block), Coinbase, Robinhood, and Solana. Other early investments include Ripple, Uphold, and Brave. After working at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton from 1984 to 1990, Mr. Kidd took his first company, DMSC, public on the Nasdaq with $250 million in revenue and 3,200 staff globally. He later served in the payments division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2004 and as a senior director at the financial regulatory consulting firm Promontory Financial Group from 2004 to 2010. Mr. Kidd also served as Chief Risk Officer at Ripple from 2013 to 2015. In 2024, Mr. Kidd was a nonpartisan candidate running for Congress in Nevada's 2nd District. Mr. Kidd graduated with an A.B. from Brown University and earned an MBA from Yale University and an MPA in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

brings over 25 years of global governance experience, spanning multiple exchanges (NASDAQ, NZX, ASX) and extensive public board experience in both the financial services and medtech industries, spanning the role of chair and committees including audit and risk, capital, remuneration and nominating committees. Ms. Jenkinson currently serves as the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Vast Bank Holdings, a nationally chartered bank, from February 2025 to present, the Global Chair of Straker (ASX:STL) a global AI translation company, from July 2025 to present a director of The Vinyl Group (ASX:VNL), a digital music platform, from November 2025 to present. Prior to her current roles, she served as Chair (Australia, United States, United Kingdom) of MedAdvisor Solutions (ASX:MDR), a Medical Adherence business focused on delivery via the pharmacy sector, from February 2022 to March 2025, Director, Chair of the Rem Committee and member of the Audit Committee of FleetPartners Group (ASX: FPR), a diversified vehicle finance company, from January 2018 to August 2023, Chair of Guild Trustee Services, a superannuation fund based in Australia, from August 2016 to December 2023, Guild Group, a diversified financial services group providing insurance and pharmacy SASS, from August 2016 to December 2023, Harbour Asset Management, an asset and fund management company, from January 2018 to August 2024, and a board member (New Zealand) of Air New Zealand (NZX: AIR), New Zealand’s national carrier from June 2024 to October 2021. Prior to her governance career Linda co-founded two companies. Her first company was DMSC which she founded with Greg Kidd and served as Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dispatch Management Services (NASDAQ: DMSC), a provider of urgent, on-demand, point-to-point delivery services. She also founded LesConcierges, a global customer and employee experience company. With a client portfolio that included Visa, American Express, MBNA, Apple, Google, Texas Instruments, LC pioneered one of the first fully integrated global digital/voice/internet solutions. Earlier in her career Linda spent 11 years as a strategy consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards, and executive teams. As a Partner at A.T. Kearney, she helped build the global Financial Services Practice. She holds a B.B.S. from Massey University in Data Processing, Accounting, & Finance and a New Zealand/Australia Chartered Accountant qualification and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School in Finance.

Founder of Know Labs, Ron has 30 years of board, business development, financial, and executive leadership experience from industries including therapeutics, mobile technologies, and software. Previously, Chairman and CEO of eCharge Corporation, Chairman and Co-founder of Blue Frog Mobile, Chairman and CEO of GlobalTel Resources, and Chairman and CEO of Egghead Software.

Founder and CEO of ipCapital Group, Inc., a leading global advisory company on intellectual property strategy and monetization.

Former Chair of the Board of the American Diabetes Association, Founding Member of the Diabetes Leadership Board, and spent 30 years with Eli Lilly where he headed the Diabetes Care business unit.

Executive Chairman at Red Bison Advisory Group, former Chairman of Century Link Telecom, and former Vice Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Previously Partner and Owner at Pepcom, Inc., the leader in technology showcase events. Previously founded Digital Focus newsletter, former technology journalist and columnist whose work appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, PC Magazine, and other publications.

President of M2M Technologies, Inc. and At Signal, Inc. and General Manager of Business Development at Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.