Henry McPhie is a seasoned entrepreneur and visionary technologist with a strong track record of building innovative companies at the intersection of blockchain and finance. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Streamex, where he leads the company's mission to revolutionize real-world asset tokenization and bring commodities on-chain through cutting-edge blockchain solutions.
Prior to founding Streamex, Henry Founded Lynx Web3 Solutions, a blockchain incubation and software development firm that supported early-stage Web3 projects with the tools, infrastructure, and strategic guidance needed to scale. Henry was also the founder of FatCats Capital, a Solana-based NFT project that quickly rose to become the third largest NFT project in the world at the time of its launch. Under his leadership, FatCats cultivated a vibrant global community of over 100,000 members, setting new standards for value creation in the NFT space.
With a background in engineering, Henry holds a degree in Mining Engineering from McGill University. He brings a rare combination of technical acumen, product vision, and community-building expertise to every venture he leads, and remains deeply committed to advancing the adoption and utility of blockchain technology and tokenization across industries.
Mitchell Williams, CFA is the Chief Investment Officer of Streamex, bringing over 20 years of experience at the forefront of Wall Street, where he has consistently driven performance through strategic insight, innovation, and disciplined investment management. Mitch began his investment career during the Web 1.0 era at Credit Suisse, where he was part of the Internet Financial Services team. He went on to hold senior Executive roles at OppenheimerFunds and Wafra Inc., managing multi-billion dollar global and domestic equity portfolios and leading high-performing investment teams.
At Wafra, Mitch grew assets under management more than threefold, delivering asymmetric returns with consistent upside capture above 100% and downside capture below 100%. Under his leadership, Wafra’s Global Equity strategy achieved top-quartile performance across every rolling five-year period. At OppenheimerFunds, he was a highly ranked equity analyst and sole portfolio manager for one of the firm’s flagship funds.
Before becoming CIO, Mitch served as Strategic Advisor on Capital Markets for Streamex, collaborating closely with founders Henry McPhie, Morgan Lekstrom, and Mathew August to help craft the company’s forward-looking investment strategy. In his current role, he leverages deep capital markets expertise to lead investment strategy and guide Streamex’s mission to tokenize real-world assets within the commodities space.
Mitch is also an active mentor and speaker, volunteering with the Michael Price Student Investment Fund at NYU Stern School of Business, where he earned his MBA as a Stern Fellowship recipient. He holds a BA from the University of Florida and has spoken on investing at several top universities.
Morgan Lekstrom is a seasoned mining executive and corporate strategist with over 17 years of experience building and transforming resource companies. As Chairman and Co-Founder of Streamex, he brings deep expertise in capital markets, strategic M&A, and commodities to guide the company's vision of tokenizing real-world assets.
Morgan recently served as CEO of NexMetals Mining Corp., where he led the redevelopment of critical metals projects in Botswana with backing from a US$150 million letter of interest from the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Previously, as President of NexGold Mining, he orchestrated a remarkable transformation through strategic deleveraging and back-to-back mergers with Blackwolf Copper and Gold, Treasury Metals, and Signal Gold, creating a near-term Canadian gold producer with a clear path to constructing two new mines.
His capital markets expertise was demonstrated through executing a $46 million non-brokered private placement, the second largest ever in Canada at the time. Morgan's operational experience spans senior technical roles at world-class operations including Freeport McMoran's Grasberg mine in Indonesia, Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, and supply chain infrastructure at G3 Grain Terminal Vancouver, Canada's largest grain terminal.
With a proven track record of delivering growth through strategic vision and disciplined execution, Morgan brings invaluable expertise in structuring complex transactions and navigating global commodity markets to advance Streamex's mission of revolutionizing asset tokenization.
Christine Plummer is a senior finance executive with more than 30 years of experience leading global controllership, regulatory reporting, and finance transformation across the financial services and fintech sectors. She most recently served as Global Controller at Coinbase, Inc., where she led a global controllership organization of more than 50 professionals responsible for financial close, regulatory reporting, and operational readiness for new products.
Prior to joining Coinbase, Christine was Global Deputy Controller and Managing Director at MSCI Inc., where she led the Global Commercial Revenue Controllership team of more than 70 professionals across multiple international locations. She also served as Head of Finance Transformation, leading initiatives to automate revenue contract processing, streamline operational processes, and the operational integration of acquisitions.
Earlier in her career, Christine spent more than two decades at Morgan Stanley, where she held a series of senior leadership roles including Chief Financial Officer for Americas Legal Entities, Global Head of Funding Controllers, and Global Product Controller for the Equity Division. In these roles, she led large global teams, implemented complex regulatory frameworks including SEC and CFTC Swap Dealer Rules, supported critical capital and liquidity management initiatives, and built large, multi-location finance organizations supporting the firm’s global operations.
Christine began her career as an auditor at Ernst & Young.
Kori Handy most recently served as Product Design Leader at Groundfloor, the award-winning real estate investing platform with more than $2.5B in assets under management and over 280,000 investors. There, he led a complete redesign across web and mobile platforms, modernizing the customer experience and driving measurable gains in onboarding, deposits, retention, and overall investor engagement.
Prior to Groundfloor, Kori led and contributed to large product design initiatives at some of the world’s most recognized technology companies, including PayPal, Microsoft, DraftKings, and Expedia, where he became known for blending systems-level thinking with exceptional product craftsmanship to build highly scalable consumer and fintech experiences used by over 100M people globally.
He also served as Head of Product Design at High Circle Banking, where he helped conceptualize and launch a premium banking and investing platform tailored to high-net-worth individuals. The platform scaled to double-digit millions in assets under management within its first year.
Kori is also a repeat founder and operator. He founded Kepler Savings; a retirement fintech platform focused on helping hourly and contract workers build long-term wealth through payroll-linked investing experiences. The company gained early traction with enterprise brands including Taco Bell, KFC, and Wendy's, scaled rapidly in ARR growth, and attracted backing and support from investors and executives associated with Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Earlier in his career, Kori founded Design First Apps, a product studio later acquired by a private equity firm after launching multiple globally featured applications that generated more than 2 million downloads and received over 40 Apple editorial features worldwide.
Throughout his career, Kori has become known for transforming complex financial and technical infrastructure into elegant, human-centered digital products — combining strategic product vision, behavioural psychology, and high-end design execution to help companies scale faster, increase engagement, and redefine customer expectations.
Mike Stephens is a Partner at Fasken in Vancouver and a senior advisor to technology companies and leadership teams on strategic growth, capital raising and governance. He works closely with founders, executives and boards across the full company lifecycle—from formation and early financings through strategic transactions and liquidity events.
Mike brings deep experience in M&A and securities matters, and is frequently engaged on board-level issues, fundraising strategy, stakeholder alignment, and the structuring and execution of complex commercial and corporate transactions. He is widely connected in the British Columbia technology ecosystem and is known for practical, business-forward guidance that helps management teams move quickly while managing risk.
Before joining Fasken, Mike was a Partner and the Vancouver office lead of the Venture Technology/Emerging Growth Companies group at an international law firm. In an advisory board capacity with Streamex, Mike supports management with strategic perspective on scaling institutional-grade platforms, governance and market credibility, and the legal and transactional considerations that arise when building regulated, product-driven financial infrastructure.
Michael Frisch has joined Streamex as its general counsel, where he will oversee the company's legal and compliance strategy.
While serving in his role at Streamex, Mike will continue to lead the cryptocurrency and digital asset practice at Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres, LLC (“CFDB”) a full-service law firm with over 110 attorneys. At CFDB, Mike leads the Midwest's premier crypto practice, where he has counseled clients in all corners of the crypto industry, from founders, to DeFi projects, to financial institutions, and more. Mike has a particular focus counseling clients at the intersection of the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) and crypto. Mike's experience with cryptocurrency began at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he brought one of the CFTC's first enforcement actions involving cryptocurrency — CFTC v. Bitfinex — and was part of the team responsible for the CFTC's action against Tether in 2021. While at the CFTC, Mike was part of the litigation team in CFTC v. Monex, a landmark case concerning the applicability of Section 2(c)(2)(D) of the CEA, and contributed to the CFTC's Final Interpretive Guidance on Actual Delivery for Digital Assets.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Mike practiced at a large Chicago-based international law firm, focusing on complex commercial litigation and matters related to white collar defense and compliance and complex civil litigation, with a particular focus on clients in the financial services sector. Mike also served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert M. Dow, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mike is a graduate of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.