Our Team

Founder + CEO

Marcus Ralphs

Before founding ByzGen Marcus served in the British Army. In addition to taking part in several high-tempo combat commands, Marcus held posts in Financial and Military Capability and Defence Policy, working at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and British Army headquarters. Marcus’ fascination with technology was first sparked by the challenges facing the defence and security sectors when it comes to managing and assuring sensitive data to inform complex and time-sensitive decisions.

In addition to running the business, Marcus heads up the development of ByzGen’s academic and commercial partnerships

Co Founder + CTO

Terry Leonard

Terry has a background in development and technology and has previously taken a senior role in growing a semantic web start up business to being acquired by the leading global information services company.

Since that acquisition Terry has been building technology products for bigger corporates having previously held senior IT roles at Experian and online gaming giant, GAN. Terry assumed the position of CTO in 2017, and now is responsible for overseeing the management and development of ByzGen’s platform.

Terry is passionate about bringing new solutions to ByzGen’s clients and informing our platform development based on their needs.

Head of Operations

Matt Birks

Matt spent 11 years as a Combat Engineer Officer in the British Army where he learned to plan, lead and deliver everything from bridge demolitions to school infrastructure projects. He completed several operational deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq; latterly serving within the army’s bomb disposal organisation where he held numerous senior operational and training roles.

Upon leaving the Army Matt joined Jaguar Land Rover to manage the commercial aspects of new vehicle programmes; Followed by a stint managing business process improvement and data analytics teams.

Matt is ByzGen’s Head of Operations and is responsible for running the financial elements of the business as well as fundraising and business development.

Senior Software Engineer

Rob Evans

An experienced software engineer with over a decade of experience in multi-national corporations, including Accenture, UBS Investment Bank, Expedia, and, more recently, Springer Nature. During this time Rob has built a reputation for exceptional software design and engineering across a broad array of applications including: small desktop applications, eTrading platforms and partner solutions.

Rob relishes the challenges associated with building systems and solutions from the ground up. He also fervently believes that blockchain technology can empower individuals, organisations (and even machines) by creating a safer environment to manage sensitive data securely.

As one of ByzGen’s senior software engineers, Rob works closely with his team to design and build systems that address the most pressing information management business challenges.

Senior Software Engineer

Shristy Bhati

A focused and experienced software engineer with excellent problem-solving skills in software development using blockchain technology.

She is confident, self-motivated, multi-skilled and consistently delivers exceptional outcomes. Furthermore, Shristy possesses a strong commitment to team environment dynamics, regularly demonstrating an innate ability to contribute to and influence leadership directives.

As one of ByzGen’s senior software engineers, she has contributed her expertise to achieve targets by working closely with her colleagues and external teams. In doing so she has played a key role in designing and building ByzGen’s platform from the ground up.

Senior Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Ryan Deery

A Software Engineer since 2011, Ryan has had engineering roles in a broad range of companies, from small startups like Servasport to SiteMinder, the hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform. In this time, he has gained experience applying technical solutions to a wide range of scenarios.

Ryan is a senior engineer at ByzGen whose duties include building and maintaining REST APIs and distributed ledgers, using microservices architecture, containerisation and advanced cryptography. He has also taken the role of DevOps Engineer which involves development of infrastructure-as-code and automating deployment using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, among others.