The Demizine Team

  • Cierra is responsible for managing and overseeing the development and progress of each project in the Demizine offering. With a background in Mechanical Engineering (BASc Mechanical Engineering – University of British Columbia, 2020) and experience in cutting edge robotics, she brings a wide variety of technical skills in addition to her aptitude for business management skills. A true workaholic she is currently completing a Management of Technology – Master of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University. Cierra makes sure no project gets off track as she guides Demizine’s developing concepts.

Cierra Moffat

  • Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur having started more than 10 companies in nearly 3 decades that have focused on manufacturing, hardware, visual sciences, entertainment and commercial real estate. He has run companies in the USA, Canada, UK, Russian Federation, Dominica, Colombia. His past achievements include developing a digital 3D camera system which won the prestigious Mario Prize at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, founder of MKA Inc the only company making a profit manufacturing in the FSU according to the US state department in the early 1990’s, Founder of BHW of the UK (2002) which was early on sustainability and forestry, and has worked as professional cat herder trying to get engineers to do various tricks for over 30 years.

    Jonathan is a big promoter of the decentralized movement - that more smaller redundant and local systems create more robust and sustainable response to climate change. He guided Demizine into the alternative housing market: mobile, emergency, rapid living solutions. He recognized that the market is bottle necked on the need for water and septic solutions. A house without running water and septic is a glorified tent – and formed WUB to change the way we think about and deal with water and septic.

    His creative work includes multiple IMAX films, Co-Producing the academy award winning Lady in Number 6, co-author of an upcoming novel with Phillip K. Dick (Blade Runner) and Ron Schusett (Alien).

Jonathan Kitzen

  • Nick manages and advises Demizine on its consumer reach out and brand strategy. He is an Oscar winning filmmaker and co - founder of Shareability, a digital marketing strategy company that advises companies like YouTube, AT@T, Adobe, Mars, Olympics, on cultural relevancy, platform diagnostics and messaging strategies. Shareability has created some of the most shareable videos of the last ten years and worked with celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Rihanna, Dua Lipa, John Cena, Sylvestor Stallone, Cristinao Ronaldo to name a few. They created the most successful PSA ever with their video,and received over 750 million views.

Nick Reed

  • Adrian is an early financial backer of Demizine. He works as a Senior Managing Director at a private equity backed global expert services and advisory firm, where he co-heads its Retail and Consumer Products group. He is regularly called upon to take interim management positions in, and provide advisory services to, companies and boards of directors facing extremely challenging situations. As an interim manager, Mr. Frankum has extensive experience as CEO, CRO and in senior finance positions, most recently as the CEO of a failing thermoregulatory devices company, where he restructured the cost structure of the company, built a collaborative and cohesive management team, developed a new business strategy to put the company on a path to positive cash flows and profitability, and helped the company to find new capital. He is a proponent of disciplined “grow smart” strategies that focus on core competencies and provide for scalable expansion into profitability. As a transformation advisor to clients as large as $27 billion in revenue, Mr. Frankum has played key roles at companies in some of the more tumultuous business environments of the past several decades, including negotiations with the “Auto Czar” task force during the 2009 Financial Crisis, restructuring subsea fiber companies during the Dot-com bubble and, more recently, driving the evolution of retail and consumer products companies in the face of the implications of a dynamic and disruptive e-commerce and digital advertising environment. Mr. Frankum has an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and earned his CPA license in New York.

Adrian Frankum

  • Kevin is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive and researcher. His first company, Area/Code Entertainment pioneered location based technologies and games, and was acquired in 2011 by Zynga. He ran a research lab at the MIT Media Lab for four years, where, along with others, he pioneered the field of urban metagenomics, leading to key methods of microbial detection used in pandemic biosafety.

    Slavin was the founding Chief Science and Technology Officer of the The Shed, in New York City, and was the co-founding Editor of the MIT Press Journal of Design and Science. His work has been shown in museums including the Museum of Modern Art, featured prominently in the press, and in US patents, from voting systems to biosafety. His TED talk on algorithms has been viewed over 3 million times, and he was the vice-chair of the Board of Trustees for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Kevin brings his long vision to Demizine along with his own future leaning projects.

Kevin Slavin

  • Frank has worked as a product designer for over 30 years for major Canadian and International corporations including Automation Tooling Systems, Bombardier, Cook Engineering, Vestergaard, and various Nanotech industries. He is a nanomedical Researcher/Book author and has co-authored over 30 peer reviewed Book chapters and Journal articles on Nanomedicine/health sciences. Frank brings diverse and valuable expertise to the company as many nanotech processes/products improve system performance, and his multi-decade engineering and manufacturing knowledge are used to serialize our products. Frank is also an accomplished musician and used to play guitar/bass for the rock “hair” band Thor, which is a challenge to reconcile.

Frank Boehm

  • John Elstad is a seasoned product leader with over 25 years of experience in SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare and wellness, tech, and life sciences. With a background in software development, UX, and sales, he has a comprehensive understanding of the software development life cycle and has been involved in the development of products for organizations of all sizes and levels of maturity.

    Most recently, John served as a Global Brand Group Product Management Consultant at Estée Lauder Companies where he coordinated nine global product teams to create and execute the product vision and roadmap. Previously, John served as a Managing Consultant at Ford Motor Company, where he mentored product directors of electric vehicle software teams to reduce cycle and lead times and improve team velocity.

    John has also held senior product management roles at Avantage Entertainment, Ambient Consulting, Taylor Corporation, Zipnosis Inc., RedBrick Health, and Best Buy Co. Inc. In addition, John is the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer of 720 Inc., where he provided product and development services to over 30 clients including Intel, Verizon, Suzuki, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and UnitedHealth Group.

    John's software skills include Axure RP, ChatGPT, Confluence, Figma, Google Analytics, Jira, Optimizely, Photoshop, and SiteCatalyst. He is fluent in Spanish, competent in French, and amusing in Russian.

John Elstad

  • James (M.Sc., in Agroecology, from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014-2016) is an experienced Agroecologist who has designed and deployed farm systems around the world to process everything from Cannabis to Human Septic. James is instrumental in designing lab testing protocols and conducting hard core research on a variety of subjects to support the company’s development cycle. His work is used to validate and build working models prior to their inclusion in new corporate offerings.

James Douglas

  • Eshan is the “mad scientist” of the company (B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Shiraz University 1992; M.S Restoration & Rehabilitation of historic structures: 1997 EMBA from Ehdas Construction R&D Institute 2012). He is responsible for hardware product development and creation. He has more than 30 years in civil engineering with over 30,000 residential units designed and built. He has an amazing talent to create very complex mechanical systems in short periods of time. A true engineering polyglot he has a vast knowledge base which he incorporates into the rapid construction of prototypes.

Eshan Rahilli