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About FortisX

FortisX is an independent company founded in 2018 to work on infrastructure around staking and validator-based networks. We focus on long-term reliability, clear data practices and disciplined operations for organisations that rely on these networks.

Company background

The people behind FortisX

FortisX is built around a compact group of engineers, operators and analysts who have worked together for many years. The company keeps decisions close to the people doing the work and values continuity over rapid, cosmetic growth.

Shared history

Many core team members came from earlier infrastructure projects together, bringing relationships and habits that pre-date the company itself.

Independence

FortisX is privately held and founder-led, which lets the company keep its focus narrow and avoid competing agendas inside the cap table.

Working culture

The company prefers documented routines and steady pace: clear ownership, written handovers and time reserved to refine what already works.

What guides FortisX

Mission & Values

FortisX exists to support careful, long-term participation in staking networks.

Steady delivery

Work planned to be reliable rather than flashy.

Risk awareness

Decisions are weighed against technical, legal and operational risk.

Open communication

Direct channels, clear status updates and candid explanations.

Long-term focus

Choices are made with full market cycles in mind.

FortisX company snapshot

Founded

2018, active since

Ownership

Private, founder-led

Team size

Compact, senior-heavy

Work model

Remote-first, multi-timezone

Home base

European-rooted company

Domain focus

Staking and validator infrastructure

Aram Mughalyan

Strategic Advisor

Growth Strategy & Market Positioning

Aram Mughalyan is a Strategic Advisor to FortisX with over 9 years of web3 business development and growth experience.

A LinkedIn Top Voice with 65,000+ followers, Aram previously served as Director of Strategic Partnerships & BD at Flipside, closing six and seven-figure institutional deals across blockchain analytics and infrastructure. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MPhil in Management from Cambridge.

At FortisX, Aram advises on GTM, growth, and LinkedIn positioning aimed at family offices, crypto-native asset managers, and corporate treasury teams considering institutional-grade staking.

Dillon Song

Strategic Growth Advisor

Staking Strategy & Market Expansion

Dillon Song advises FortisX on institutional staking strategy, global market expansion, and partner-side growth.

His background spans Binance.US, Bybit, OKX, DODO, and P2P.org, with experience across staking programs, DeFi and Web3 wallet products, institutional business development, and market expansion across APAC, Europe, LATAM, and Turkey.

At FortisX, Dillon helps connect staking infrastructure, product positioning, and external growth channels as the platform expands its institutional ecosystem.

Emanuel Ramos

Senior Strategic Advisor

Business Strategy & Operational Development

Emanuel supports the strategic and operational development of FortisX by contributing to business planning, team growth, and execution processes.

He helps define project scope, hiring structure, stakeholder outreach, financial planning, and cross-functional coordination to ensure business objectives are translated into clear, sustainable progress.

His role is to connect strategic vision with operational execution and long-term growth.

Hamza Bangash

Strategic Growth & Partnerships

Market Growth & Strategic Partnerships

Hamza Bangash supports FortisX across strategic growth, partner relationships, and market-side development within Web3 and digital asset ecosystems.

His background spans business development, exchange growth, brand ambassadorship, affiliate partnerships, operations, and partner support. This gives him practical experience in building external channels around platforms, communities, and ecosystem participants.

At FortisX, Hamza helps expand external reach around staking, liquidity, and infrastructure products by developing relevant partner channels, supporting growth initiatives, and keeping outreach connected to the platform’s long-term positioning.

Alexander Fournier

Business Developer

Ecosystem & Business Development

Alexander Fournier is responsible for developing business opportunities around FortisX and turning external interest into structured partner conversations.

His work focuses on identifying relevant counterparties, qualifying partnership potential, and helping FortisX enter discussions with a clear commercial context across staking, liquidity, and infrastructure use cases.

As Business Developer, Alexander helps FortisX build practical market access: finding the right conversations, preparing them properly, and keeping commercial development connected to the platform’s broader product strategy.

Hassan Sadiq

Web3 Growth & Partnerships

Community Growth & Web3 Partnerships

Hassan Sadiq supports FortisX across community growth, Web3 partnerships, and business development, with a focus on expanding awareness around real-world asset infrastructure, staking products, and liquidity-driven digital asset services.

His background spans RWA, Web3, community building, growth strategy, iGaming, and partnership development. He works across ecosystem communication, relationship building, market outreach, and partner-side coordination for product and growth initiatives.

At FortisX, Hassan helps connect product positioning with external communities, partners, and growth channels, supporting clearer communication between the platform, its ecosystem, and new market audiences.

Jeffery Oke-Samuel

Blockchain & Web3 Consultant

Jeffery Oke-Samuel is a Blockchain & Web3 Consultant and Engineer with over five years of experience building across the full spectrum of decentralised technology.

A former full-stack developer turned Web3 specialist, he has led development and consulted on 15+ crypto projects spanning wallet infrastructure, smart contracts, NFTs, stablecoin neobanks, and on-chain cross-border payments including a payment platform that has processed over $40M in transaction volume.

He helps founders think through architecture, strategy, and execution from concept to launch.

Sahil Shaikh

Blockchain Architecture & DeFi Systems

Sahil leads blockchain architecture across FortisX products, with a focus on secure, scalable systems for DeFi and validator-based environments.

He works across smart contract design, protocol architecture, cross-chain infrastructure, and production-ready blockchain integrations. His experience includes staking systems, DEXs, lending markets, liquidity pools, token standards, wallets, and blockchain-based enterprise solutions.

His role is to turn complex blockchain requirements into clear technical architecture that supports reliable products, secure execution, and long-term platform growth.

Shuja Abrar

Blockchain Solutions Engineer

Web3 Product Development

Shuja Abrar contributes to the development of FortisX Web3 products at the intersection of product thinking, architecture, and practical execution.

He helps turn product goals into working blockchain solutions by shaping integrations, evaluating technical risks, contributing to user flow design, and ensuring that new features are clear, reliable, and ready for real-world use.

His role is to connect product vision with a solid technical foundation.

Klay Peterson

Head of Protocol & Product Strategy

Official Statement

Dear Partners, Validators, and Members of the FortisX Ecosystem,

As Head of Protocol & Product Strategy at FortisX, I want to express my appreciation for your continued interest in our project and to reaffirm our commitment to building a resilient technological foundation designed for next-generation requirements.

As we move forward, my focus remains on ensuring that FortisX stays technically consistent, secure, and strategically aligned with the needs of our ecosystem and stakeholders.

Head of Protocol & Product Strategy

Message from the FortisX Team

At FortisX, we work on an analytics and allocation layer around staking and validator networks. As a team, we hold ourselves to high standards of reliability, transparency, and operational integrity in the way we collect data, define policies, and operate our infrastructure.

Our backgrounds span distributed systems, validator operations, risk analysis, protocol research, and secure cloud engineering. We share a single goal: to give institutions and infrastructure teams a stable, well-documented environment for understanding staking networks and organising their participation within each supported network.

The components we build—data pipelines, analytics, policy engines, and operational tooling—are designed with durability and auditability in mind. We focus on predictable behaviour, clear ownership, and the ability to trace how inputs, assumptions, and rules lead to concrete outcomes.

We see the future of decentralised systems as depending on engineering discipline, responsible operations, and measurable results. As FortisX evolves, we aim to keep strengthening these foundations and extend them to the partners who rely on our work.

Analytics with full traceability

Built for simplicity, powered by intelligence

At FortisX, analytics and operations are set up to leave a clear record—from data sources and assumptions to the decisions they support. This makes complex infrastructure easier to explain and review over time.

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