About Brent de Jong

Brent de Jong is passionately curious. And the most important thing he does is use his curiosity to find meaningful connections in seemingly divergent issues. His work spans a wide range of innovation in finance and technology. Brent has invested in businesses that use Blockchain, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning to improve access to and sustainability of precious metals, energy, and agricultural commodities and their supply chains. Decentralized technologies and asset tokenization are set to disrupt the financial sector. By making it possible for anyone to own a fraction of an asset such as gold or other commodities or by increasing their utility from simply a store of value to a medium of exchange, digital assets are making financial products accessible to the mass market. Coupled with an increasing need to understand product footprints and impacts, consumers, investors, and regulators are all tuning into the ability of new tech to solve pressing global challenges. With this in mind and building on his 20-year investment experience with 250+ deals and founding an essential energy infrastructure company with operating assets in 19 countries, he is now creating a platform of businesses that bridges the interaction between commodities and technology. The QOS Protocol is a patent asset tokenization platform on which trusted participants build applications and services. The Responsible Gold Ecosystem – the first use case on the QOS Platform – provides the means for gold with irrefutable blockchain-based provenance records and best practice responsible sourcing standards, to be digitally minted into G-Coin tokens that can be used to save, send, and spend gold. Other Brent de Jong Capital investments include: Hedgepont Global Markets, a financial risk management platform for agricultural and energy commodities where tech. integration is expected to provide customers with better market information and improved transparency. Rivermet Resources, a collaboration between Alberta Investment Management Corporation, BlackRock Inc, Pandion Mine Finance, LP, and EmTech to create a Gold ESG investment vehicle. TrustStamp Inc, providing AI-powered facial biometric identity authentication solutions for use in multiple sectors including finance and regulatory compliance. One of the best parts of his job is identifying and recruiting talented professionals to join their global teams. One of his great joys is seeing people he’s mentored flourish and advance to C-level roles.