About Us

Kirian Van Hest

Founder

Kirian is a writer, (self-taught) economist and inventor. He has spent the past decade and a half reading and studying many subjects, of which economics, physics and the behavior of society remain favorites - as well as the mechanics of videogames. In late 2019, he got the idea for the Force Redirection Electric Engine and tried to obtain funding but was unfortunately hampered by the Pandemic.

Building up an audience on Twitter out of nothing instead, using impossible predictions that came true such as the historic bond market rout as well as writing books on the very nature of money and value itself, Kirian managed to attract the attention of Thomas, and immediately convinced him to fund a patent for this revolutionary technology.

After some improvements and deepening of the theory behind the engine's functionality, we're now ready to bring the ability to explore the galaxy to humanity - and that's only the beginning.

Thomas Fontaine

Co-Founder

Thomas is a seasoned tech executive with more than 25 years of experience across the world a majority of it spent in the Silicon Valley. He has helped around ten startups at different levels of responsibility (from developer to CTO sometimes as co-founder) often times in hyper growth environments ship successful products and expand their businesses significantly.

He is also very familiar with much larger structures or Silicon Valley successes like Pearson (as VP of Software Development in charge of digital transformation) or Zynga (as CTO of historical franchises like Farmville 1 and 2 or Zynga Poker). His breadth of experience covers a very large spectrum of functional and technical domains including games, e-commerce, recruiting, communications, security, payments, market finance and plenty more.

Thomas shares his time between France and the USA and brings a very strong background in sciences or engineering holding a MS from ENSTA in France and MSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Vanya Cadogan

Graphics Designer, Web Developer

Vanya is an ambitious developer who studied at Dublin City University and has a passion for programming and technology. His skills span across various programming languages, web development frameworks, cloud platforms, and databases, showcasing his broad interest in many topics related to programming.

In the past, Vanya served as a Vulnerability Management Intern at General Motors IT Services in Dublin, where he utilized cloud platforms for policy and compliance creation, and DevOps.

Recently, he took on a role at Kirian Technologies, developed the website and created the logo for the brand identity. Vanya looks forward to contributing further to Kirian Technologies and the broader tech world.