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Systems builder with roots in Canada's oil and gas sector, where he led 100-plus person teams on multi-billion-dollar projects in high-risk, mission-critical environments. After years studying monetary history and capital markets, Chad founded KCS Capital to design the regulated digital infrastructure Canadian finance needs.

His entrepreneurial roots run deep. His grandparents founded the first glass company in Fort McMurray in 1972, securing early contracts with what would become Syncrude and Suncor during the early oil sands expansion. That legacy of building in emerging industries instilled in him a respect for long-term thinking and conviction during uncertain cycles.

Inspired by that example, Chad began his own entrepreneurial path early, launching his first lawn care business at 13. A modest start, but a defining moment. It was the first time he experienced the direct relationship between effort, production, and return. That early lesson in ownership, accountability, and self-reliance shaped the mindset he carries into every venture today.

Chad began his career in Canada's oil and gas and industrial sectors, working his way up through the ranks across a variety of industries, leading large-scale projects involving multi-million-dollar equipment and sizeable field teams in high-risk, mission-critical environments. He played a senior leadership role in the final phase of the multi-billion-dollar CNRL Horizon Coker Upgrade, with care and control of more than 100 workers. For a portion of his career he served as a certified High Angle Rope Rescue Technician, responsible for life-critical decisions under pressure. These experiences shaped his disciplined, risk-aware leadership style.

In 2013, he transitioned into entrepreneurship, launching a specialized mobile oil services company and engineering a custom oil regeneration system from the ground up. The commodity downturn of 2015 reinforced a defining principle: time in the market beats timing the market. He later expanded into multi-industry service businesses, working with startups and focusing on scalable sales models, growth systems, and client retention. Building teams over the years taught him an important lesson: you may not know every answer, but if you build the right team, you will always find them.

Prior to KCS Capital, Chad consulted as an Innovation Lead at IEP Energy Economics Development Corp., where he helped restructure the sales department, refine team alignment, and formalize sales strategy and presentation frameworks. He also contributed to stakeholder engagement initiatives focused on public education around renewable energy investment. His work expanded into the provincial utility and First Nations sectors, where he supported engagement with Indigenous communities and presented alongside provincial leaders. Chad has spoken across Western Canada on renewable infrastructure and investment, most recently as a keynote presenter at the Clean Energy BC Summit.

Driven by a sense of responsibility for the next generation, Chad dedicated several years to studying monetary history, inflation cycles, debt expansion, and modern capital markets. Through this work he identified that financial infrastructure, particularly settlement speed, capital efficiency, and asset liquidity, is likely to evolve through digital architecture. Rather than position himself in opposition to existing systems, he focused on how compliant, regulated alternatives could be thoughtfully designed within institutional frameworks. To date, Chad and his team have conducted structured analysis on more than 46 companies nationally across digital asset infrastructure, tokenization platforms, exchanges, custodians, and asset-backed finance models.

Chad approaches innovation as a discipline rather than an event. Over the past decade he has formally documented and catalogued hundreds of inventions and concepts across multiple industries. These are not speculative claims of execution, but structured examinations of how systems could evolve under different constraints. Through this process he has developed a strong capacity for pattern recognition: identifying structural inefficiencies, connecting adjacent strengths, and isolating leverage points where thoughtful redesign can unlock material improvement.

As Founder and CEO of KCS Capital, Chad now channels that discipline into the planning and development of 4orm Finance, an institution-grade digital asset infrastructure and national marketplace architecture designed to operate within regulated financial environments. Operating at the convergence of industrial assets, institutional finance, and digital infrastructure, his focus remains consistent: design systems that are stable, compliant, and built to last.

"The visionaries of today bold enough to take action will lead the future of tomorrow."
Chad R. Johnston

Sam Jr. Mraiheen is a Co-Founder of KCS Capital and advises the firm on institutional relations, supporting executive-level engagement across banking, regulatory, and capital markets institutions. His focus is to ensure that innovation is introduced within governance-aligned frameworks that institutions can responsibly evaluate and adopt.

Born in Kuwait and raised across the Middle East during a period of regional instability, Sam developed an early appreciation for resilience, capital preservation, and the importance of infrastructure that functions reliably under pressure. Those experiences shaped his long-term orientation toward disciplined system design and structured modernization.

Coming from a third-generation entrepreneurial family, Sam was exposed early to cross-border commerce and capital formation. During Dubai's rapid economic expansion in the early 2000s, his family built and scaled an automotive import and distribution enterprise. Observing both market volatility and accelerated growth cycles strengthened his understanding of asset turnover, operational discipline, and strategic positioning.

After relocating to Canada, Sam built his career within renewable energy infrastructure. As Vice President of Major Business Development and Executive Partner at Energy Economics Development Inc., he led utility-scale solar and battery storage initiatives, aligning engineering execution with structured capital deployment and multi-stakeholder coordination. His focus was translating decentralized infrastructure projects into commercially viable, institution-ready investment opportunities.

At KCS Capital, Sam functions as the firm's institutional bridge, connecting financial institutions, regulators, capital partners, and infrastructure operators with compliant digital asset initiatives. He focuses on governance alignment, counterparty selection, and structured engagement models that integrate programmable asset systems within existing regulatory environments.

Sam views the current evolution in financial markets not as disruption, but as a modernization cycle, one where digital infrastructure can enhance transparency, settlement efficiency, and capital access when implemented responsibly. His approach centres on institutional credibility, disciplined execution, and long-term resilience.

Kevin Wong is a serial entrepreneur, growth strategist, and investor with more than 22 years of experience building, scaling, and advising companies across multiple industries. As a strategy advisor to KCS Capital, Kevin guides strategic growth, brand positioning, and market expansion, helping ensure that vision translates into measurable traction and long-term enterprise value.

Kevin's personal mission is to serve as a catalyst for organizations to grow and scale while upholding their most important core values. He operates from a people-first philosophy: impact precedes income, and taking care of people always comes before profit. This belief system shapes how he develops brands and architects growth strategies across industries.

Through his business solutions agency Evolve One Media, he has spent the past decade advising entrepreneurs and leadership teams in increasingly competitive markets. His approach blends strategic clarity with marketing insight, helping businesses define what makes them truly unique and amplify that differentiation. He works alongside founders as a strategic partner, bringing fresh perspective grounded in decades of execution.

Kevin also served as Senior Brand Strategist and Marketing Advisor at Carbeeza, a SaaS platform transforming the automotive buying experience in Canada. There, he helped reposition marketing away from transactional messaging toward empowerment-driven narratives centered on consumer choice, personalization, and trust. His ability to merge creativity with analytical rigour has enabled brands to stand out in mature industries ready for reinvention.

A former competitive athlete, Kevin holds a Bachelor of Physical Education in Sports and Exercise from the University of Alberta. His athletic background informs his leadership style: disciplined, resilient, team-oriented, and performance-driven.

Kevin is passionate about building businesses by building people. He believes that when innovators and entrepreneurs are empowered to create, and enabled with the right systems, strategy, and leadership, their ripple effect multiplies exponentially. At KCS Capital, he applies this philosophy to shaping sustainable growth engines that align vision, brand, marketing, and impact for long-term legacy creation.

Don is a seasoned entrepreneur, operator, and community builder with more than 17 years of executive leadership experience. He is an angel investor in KCS Capital and serves as an independent strategic advisor to the founding team, contributing operational perspective drawn from decades of building and running his own businesses. He is not an employee or officer of the company.

Don is the Founder and President of a large development company he has led since 2009. Under his leadership, the firm has built a reputation for disciplined project execution, construction management expertise, and long-term client relationships. His background in infrastructure, operations, and hands-on business management brings practical, real-world insight to strategic decision-making.

Don is a social entrepreneur and mentor through Freedom Ventures, where he supports leadership development and personal growth initiatives. He is also the Founder of YEG Pickleball, playing a key role in expanding the sport within the Edmonton community through coaching, programming, and inclusive player development. His leadership style emphasizes fundamentals, strategic thinking, and a culture of encouragement, principles he applies equally in business.

Don has a long history of coaching youth sports, including over two decades of involvement in minor and inline hockey in Edmonton. His dedication to mentorship reflects his belief that strong leadership is built on discipline, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Don has been actively engaged in investment markets, with a strong interest in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance. That interest is part of what drew him to back KCS Capital as an early investor. A former competitive athlete with a background in bodybuilding, he brings a performance-driven mindset to everything he commits to.

As an advisor, Don offers the KCS Capital founders an independent sounding board: grounded operational wisdom from someone who has scaled companies through real-world conditions. His contribution is perspective, not management. He challenges assumptions and tests strategy against decades of hands-on experience.

Bruce was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and has lived in Calgary, Vancouver, and Vernon. He is the President of Mench Capital Corp., founded in June 1999, a Canadian merchant banking firm providing corporate finance consulting and advisory services and access to private and public capital for established mid-market companies. Bruce is a seasoned merchant banker and capital markets executive with more than 25 years of experience structuring and originating private and public equity transactions across Canada.

Over the course of his career, Mench Capital Corp. has participated in or originated more than $500 million in private and public equity transactions, primarily across the Canadian resource sector in oil, gas, and mining, as well as structured and alternative investment products including private debt strategies and an innovative structure in the Canadian industrial carbon credits industry.

Bruce has held senior leadership roles including Vice President of Business Development at Qwest Bancorp Ltd., Executive Vice President and Director of Maple Leaf Funds, Regional Director at Next Edge Capital, Managing Director of Business Development at Harbourfront Wealth Management, and President of Cordilleran Resources Management Group Ltd. He has extensive experience developing tax-efficient investment vehicles, including flow-through limited partnerships that provide diversified exposure to Canadian junior exploration companies.

Bruce has served on numerous private and public company boards as an independent director, contributing governance oversight, strategic capital structuring, and institutional market insight. He was a founder of Sky Energy Partners, focused on solar and renewable energy from 2010 to 2014, and, along with Sol-Powered Energy Corp., funded and built the Casselman Arena rooftop solar project in Casselman, Ontario. He was formerly President and CEO of Cordillera Minerals Group Ltd. and President and CEO of both the Cordillera Minerals 2021 and 2023 Flow-Through Limited Partnerships.

Recently, Mench Capital Corp. provided financial advisory consulting for Ridge North America in 2025 and participated in securing $74 million in equity funding for the RNA Live Play Stay Development Limited Partnership, advancing a high-impact real estate and lifestyle investment initiative. Mench Capital also provided financial consulting services for CellCore Technologies Inc., Canada's first Indigenous nitrocellulose munitions facility, based in Saskatchewan. Bruce currently acts as Senior Vice President, Western Canada for Next Edge Capital, raising funds for critical and precious metals flow-through limited partnerships.

Bruce currently serves as an independent Director of Golden Sky Minerals and Thunderbird Minerals Corp. His prior board roles include Searchlight Resources Inc., Maple Leaf Energy Income Partnerships, Maple Leaf Flow-Through Limited Partnerships, Nation Wide Self Storage Trust I, Richfield Ventures Corp, Orsa Ventures, Cliffmont Resources, and Maple Leaf Resource Corp.

At KCS Capital, Bruce supports the development of institution-grade capital strategies as the firm builds regulated digital asset infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization platforms. As Capital Markets Advisor, he provides strategic guidance on capital formation, investor positioning, and institutional market access. Bruce holds an Honours degree in Political Science and English from the University of Saskatchewan.

Information technology law Partner in the Vancouver office of Fasken. A recognized leader in the British Columbia technology ecosystem, Mike represents companies through every stage of development, with a focus on early-stage entrepreneurs, start-ups, and emerging growth companies.

An experienced M&A and securities lawyer, Mike counsels founders, executives, and company boards on corporate strategy, fundraising, board governance, and strategic transactions, from foundation through to IPO or exit. At KCS Capital, he advises on the corporate and securities framework underpinning the firm's regulated digital asset infrastructure work.

Senior Enterprise and Systems Architect with more than 20 years designing systems in regulated environments across banking, insurance, public sector, and large enterprise. TOGAF 9.1 Certified.

Zed brings deep experience in Interac payments modernization, AML compliance, identity management, and audit controls, with engagements at Vancity, ICBC, UBC, and Safeway. At KCS Capital he advises on target-state systems architecture, identity, asset lifecycle, and the bank-facing control models that institutional partners require.

After more than a decade building a successful career in sales, Angelo transitioned into real estate with a clear purpose: to combine his expertise in client relationships, financial literacy, and strategic negotiation into a vehicle for long-term impact and wealth creation.

Early in his career, Angelo rose into corporate sales training roles, where he focused on empowering clients and colleagues to elevate performance. His ability to simplify complex concepts into clear, actionable strategies became a defining strength, one that now directly benefits his real estate clients and investment partners.

With a strong foundation in financial literacy, Angelo approaches real estate not merely as a transaction, but as a strategic investment decision. He has successfully facilitated hundreds of transactions, earning a reputation for preparation, transparency, efficiency, and disciplined execution. He is frequently sought out as a mentor to emerging agents and investors for his practical insight and leadership.

Having grown up in the Fraser Valley and spent over a decade working throughout Greater Vancouver, Angelo brings deep local market knowledge and a broad professional network across diverse communities. He has also completed transactions with foreign buyers from China and Japan, enabling him to connect international capital with Canadian opportunities.

In addition to his brokerage work, Angelo serves as a Real-World Asset Advisor, helping bridge traditional real estate markets with emerging digital financial infrastructure. He works with the KCS Capital leadership team to identify innovative entry points into both residential and commercial real estate through structured and tokenized asset models. His transactional experience ensures that new RWA initiatives remain grounded in real-world valuation, investor demand, and operational feasibility.

Angelo's mission is to empower individuals and investors through knowledge, strategy, and disciplined execution, using real estate as a foundation for long-term prosperity while helping shape its next evolution.

Dean brings over four decades of leadership experience in commercial infrastructure and business operations, combined with an evolving focus on digital asset markets and blockchain innovation.

For more than 40 years, Dean has led a successful commercial electrical contracting enterprise, building and sustaining a family-owned business rooted in precision, operational discipline, and long-term resilience. Since the mid-1980s, he has managed large-scale infrastructure projects, navigating complex environments while maintaining a reputation for reliability and execution excellence.

In recent years, Dean has expanded his expertise into digital asset markets and blockchain research. Since 2021, he has undertaken advanced market training and developed strong technical and fundamental analysis capabilities across crypto, DeFi, and decentralized exchange ecosystems. As Research Advisor at KCS Capital, Dean focuses on blockchain market analysis, emerging protocol evaluation, tokenomics assessment, and identifying early-stage innovation within decentralized finance infrastructure.

He maintains a long-standing network of experienced traders, investors, and blockchain veterans, providing valuable market intelligence and sector insight. His work supports strategic positioning, market timing awareness, and research-driven evaluation of new technologies and digital asset opportunities. Dean combines traditional business fundamentals with modern financial market research, bringing a disciplined, operator-minded perspective to blockchain analysis and capital deployment strategy.

Outside of his professional work, Dean is passionate about music, fishing, and the outdoors. A devoted father, he raised his children as a single parent after the tragic loss of his wife while continuing to grow his company, a testament to his character, commitment, and long-term perspective.