Rafael Velado spent 27 years in the U.S. military, retiring as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3) in Army Cyber. He brings deep operational experience in cybersecurity, signals intelligence, and mission-critical systems to everything he builds.

Today he's a CISSP-certified Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager at Marsh, one of the world's largest insurance brokers and risk advisors, where he reports to the Global CISO and leads governance initiatives across the enterprise.

With a background in mathematics and a career spent securing systems that can't afford to fail, Raf recognized in early 2025 that trust dynamics in multi-agent AI systems obey conservation laws — the same class of invariants that govern physical systems. That insight became Atomic Trust.

What started as a single theorem is now 48 patent filings, 1,026 machine-verified proofs, and a platform built to govern AI at enterprise scale. Every line of code, every proof, and every patent was built by one founder who believes governance should be as rigorous as the AI itself.