Experience

Commercial and intelligence work, side by side.

Complete professional experience across sales leadership, strategic partnerships, ecosystem development, digital commerce, and blockchain intelligence.

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Professional experience

Four selected areas of work.

Secret Network Foundation

Global commercial leadership | partnerships | ecosystem adoption

Secret Network workstream

Head of Sales & Business Development

Mar 2026 - Present

Remote

  • Lead global sales and business development for privacy-focused blockchain and confidential-computing infrastructure.
  • Source leads, develop commercial opportunities and coordinate negotiation, partner activation and implementation with colleagues across the Foundation and technical teams.

Business Development Manager

Jun 2025 - Mar 2026

Remote

  • Developed strategic partnerships, partner success plans, go-to-market activity and commercial follow-up across an international pipeline.
  • Introduced prospects and helped advance relationships through cross-functional planning; public Foundation reports document team outcomes, not individual deal ownership.

Business Development Associate

Apr 2024 - Jun 2025

Remote

  • Sourced and researched prospective partners, built briefs and moved relevant opportunities into the business-development pipeline.
  • Worked with colleagues on co-marketing, partner communications and routes from ecosystem interest to adoption.

Secret Network Africa Lead

Feb 2022 - Dec 2024

Remote · Part-time

  • Developed the Cryptocurrency Academy Kenya education partnership and represented Secret Network Africa at Cybertech Africa, Web3 Lagos and the Africa Blockchain Summit.
  • The Foundation's Q2 2024 report names Popeblack for 12 weeks of Zero-to-Hero workshops; the reported developer-onboarding total was a Growth and DevRel team result.

CipherOwl Inc.

Blockchain intelligence | OSINT | digital-asset risk

Intelligence method

Blockchain Intelligence Analyst

Mar 2026 - Present

Remote

  • Investigate and attribute blockchain addresses linked to OTC services, marketplaces, escrow services, forums, ATMs and higher-risk activity using on-chain transaction analysis and OSINT.
  • Document verifiable links between addresses and real-world entities or services, recording source evidence, OSINT indicators and confidence limits for auditable intelligence.
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  • Apply structured taxonomy and metadata to intelligence datasets supporting cryptocurrency investigations, transaction monitoring, compliance and financial-crime analysis.
  • Prioritise evidence quality and defensible attribution while protecting confidential investigation details.

WhisperNode

Ecosystem growth & partner communications | descriptive engagement

Co-credited publication

Community, content and partner support

  • Managed social and community communications and supported outreach and customer service for partners across networks validated by WhisperNode.
  • Co-published WhisperNode Weekly issues credited to WhisperNode & Popeblack; staking-growth percentage awaits validator analytics.

Cosmos Hub Nigeria / Naija HackATOM

Funded ecosystem and developer programme | independent initiative

Funding and programme record

Founder & programme lead

  • Led programme design, local partnerships and delivery across Nigerian cities for a Cosmos Hub developer-activation initiative.
  • ATOM Accelerator approved $27,250 for Cosmos Nigeria/Popeblack; the programme report records 500+ attendees and 50+ project submissions.