The MobileCoin Foundation would like to share the exciting news that Mr. Trent Teyema has been named a Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor to MCF, focused on privacy, security, and compliance issues tied to issues around law enforcement and how cryptocurrencies can be used in this space. MCF has been created to ensure MobileCoin is amplifying the values of choice, responsibility, and trust in its mission: building a financial network that empowers global commerce.

The work of the MobileCoin Foundation is to embody those values, beginning with the idea that we include an external Board separate and distinct from MobileCoin Inc. that can raise questions, discuss issues with the larger MobileCoin community, and improve the design of MobileCoin based on community feedback. Learn more about MobileCoin Foundation here.

And as for Mr. Trent Teyema (FBI Special Agent – SES ret.), he is a consultant advising governments and companies on cybersecurity, blockchain, infrastructures, national security, and space. He has served in numerous senior leadership positions, to include the Director of Cybersecurity Policy for the White House’s National Security Council, the SAC of the Cyber and Counterintelligence Division for FBI Los Angeles, the FBI Cyber Division’s COO / Chief of Cyber Readiness. Mr. Teyema founded and led the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF) which is one of the seven US cybersecurity centers.

Mr. Teyema is a doctoral candidate in cybersecurity at Marymount University.