Peter Alfred-Adekeye is the Founder and CEO of Boom and creator of MTCN.
Peter is a serial entrepreneur that has enjoyed an incredible career, from his first startup which exported sustainable teak wood from Nigeria to India in his twenties, to evangelizing about technology in Palo Alto, California, to being name-checked in the pages of UK Vogue.
Peter was raised in Lagos by his British-Nigerian Royal Navy veteran father, he now calls Paris, Zurich, London, and Monaco home, but is truly a citizen of the world.
After a stint as an engineer and a technical leader at Cisco in the 2000s helping to maintain the integrity of the software systems that power the internet, Peter set up Multiven in Palo Alto. Its goal of independent internet software maintenance and cyber-defense prompted a series of successful legal battles with Cisco that eventually helped to set the internet free, paving the way for today’s cheaper and safer online world. Multiven’s customer base ranges from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies. It includes AB InBev, (the world’s largest brewer), Barclays Bank, Orange, Dassault Systems, TF1, (France’s most popular TV station), the US Department of Defense (Army, Navy, and Air Force), Thales, Capgemini, HP, IKEA, the Dutch National Police, MIT, and many more.
To create Boom, Peter drew on his deep knowledge of blockchain. He founded the Pingsta intellectual network for engineers, cryptographers, and scientists in 2007; its members included the late renowned cryptographer Hal Finney who was integral to the birth of bitcoin.
Peter holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and attended the Leadership Executive Program at Stanford University in the US.
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