TEAM
Meet our team
Anonymous Intelligence Company team of experts is dedicated to creating a new era of AI and privacy, by leveraging their diverse skills & experiences.
Denis Franks
President, CEO / Director
For over the past 35 years, Denis Franks refused to be pigeonholed into one path while founding numerous successful companies in both the United States and Canada. His knowledge and expertise span over vast Industries including, Real Estate, Land Development, Construction, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Investment, Oil and Gas, Energy Sector, and Entertainment. Since 2014, Denis has immersed himself into cutting edge technology, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology.
The focus for Denis over the last decade is to seek and create technological solutions to improve the lives of the public. He has either founded, financed, or been the architect in many companies.
A streaming service that combats depression through Reminiscence Therapy. An App development company, developing an image recognition SmartApp called SkinApp for early skin cancer detection. An entertainment technology incubator with several humanity-based initiatives, including MyWill, a video will Smart App making a last will and testament easy and affordable. A Technology company leading companies into the future of corporate responsibility and safety through patented plant-based polymers called Quantasphere Encapsulation.
Denis has been the architect and financier in numerous cryptocurrencies.
A cryptocurrency company built on the Ethereum blockchain that allows novice traders to benefit from sophisticated traders while holding them accountable. A Decentralized prediction platform focused on financial assets, almost exclusively cryptocurrency. Along with an Ethereum sidechain that utilizes a unique Proof of Celebrity consensus mechanism.
With the impending launch of Simplii Crypto Denis will strive towards shrinking the Global Wealth Gap, with proprietary initiatives like intergenerational cryptocurrency mortgages, low-interest rate car loans, credit cards, along with innovative and disruptive Decentralized Finance (DeFi) initiatives.
“Cryptocurrency should always have global poverty initiatives and hopefully we can lead the way for others to follow.”
“The measure of a man is not the size his bank account, but his positive impact on society”
Denis Franks
Nilda Rivera
CFO, Corporate Secretary
Ms. Rivera has over 25 years of experience in corporate and operational finance, working with publicly listed companies in accounting, finance, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance. She has been actively involved in IPOs, RTOs, and mergers and acquisitions across industries including cannabis, hemp, mineral resource, and technology. She has also worked with a number of start-up companies to secure listings on the CSE, TSXV, and OTC, and to support their uplistings to the TSX and NYSE.
Prior to joining ANON, Ms. Rivera served as Vice President of Finance and Corporate Secretary at Aurora Cannabis Inc. (ACB), where she built and led the finance team, contributed to the company’s early equity and debt financings, and played a key role in its uplisting.
She has also held senior leadership roles including CFO, Corporate Secretary, and Director with several public mining and exploration companies.
Allan Larmour
Director
Allan Larmour is an accomplished entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies, start-up technology companies, international sales and business development, and executive management. Allan began his career as a system engineer for Data General, moved into sales (3 clubs and top sales executive worldwide) and then was promoted to Canada regional sales manager, building strong direct sales teams and channels. He then co-founded EXL Information Systems, a Telecom Billing and Customer Care software company, where he was VP of Sales and Marketing. EXL was sold to EDS in the US after three years of rapid growth. While there, he assisted in raising $12M for development and expansion. After EXL, Allan continued providing solution selling skills, sales and marketing team building, channel development, and strategic and tactical planning for start-ups until 2004 when he co-founded Mobidia Technology Inc., a software company developing optimization and traffic and policy management solutions to better support the rapid growth of new multimedia services running on mobile operators’ core networks. There he established strong relationships with the largest mobile operators in the world including Vodafone, Orange, and Sprint, and partner relationships with companies such as Cisco, Juniper and Samsung. Mobidia raised a total of $33M of venture capital. Mobidia was sold to AppAnnie in the US. After Mobidia, Allan continued to mentor start-up companies, raising capital and providing strategic planning for marketing, sales, channel development and product direction. In 2009 he joined EmerGeo Solutions Inc., an Emergency and Crisis management software company, raising $7.5M for the company and leading strategy sessions for product direction, go to market plans, sales and partner direction. In 2011, Allan joined Disternet Technologies Inc, a next generation Set-Top-Box/Home Gateway company and helped raise $8.5M in strategic investment from Vodafone. Allan then assisted a Big Data and Analytics cloud-based software company and an AI company to set their product direction, establish a roadmap and platform strategy and secure large enterprise clients. Currently, Mr. Larmour was asked to be President and CEO of a health and wellness company to help raise seed capital and bring the company public through the IPO process and is a Director on several Technology and Mining company boards.
Allan has a Bachelor of Science (Genetics) and Bachelor of Applied Science Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of British Columbia. He is an avid skier, SCUBA diver and golfer.
Kevin Kowbel
Director
Over the last two decades, Kevin Kowbel grew into a hands-on executive while working with Canadian Natural Resources (CNRL), eventually leading their key global oil and gas positions. Kevin Kowbell is far beyond a leading engineer with +20 years’ experience, He has been instrumental in the growth of multiple companies across many industries, both public and start-ups.
With a keen strength in positively impacting and evolving foundering business cultures, while developing technologies focused on doing more with less, and more for less. He
has a passion for technologies that can help create better tomorrows. Far beyond an investor, Kevin’s expertise has led him to ownership and key positions in many companies, both public and private have benefitted from his knowledge, guidance, and business acumen. A founder in QuantaSphere Technology Inc., Kevin is leading the mass commercialization in curving chemical illness with patented plant-based encapsulation technology. This technology has both applications in the medical field, along with health and beauty. With a vast background in oil and gas Kevin has also founded an oil and gas start-up that will globally revolutionize heavy oil production. This technology will reduce viscosity to make more fluid and thinner. Simply put, heavy crude petroleum (oil) will be able to more efficiently be transported to market without the use of a chemical hydrocarbon called diluent. Saving time effort and money in the transport of heavy crude petroleum. With a passion for technology, Kevin was appointed a Chairman and CEO of a technology development company that used advanced mathematics for creating stakeholder value. Kevin is excited about how ANON’s VPN, SDK, and developing AI technology can be leveraged to create value for ANON’s subscribers, collaborators, and shareholders. Along with branching out to solve real world problems through Artificial intelligence (AI)
Kevin Kowbell’s commitment to both business and family life is unwavering in self-discovery and honest admission that led a simple and not so simple CREDO. It is represented by the acronym WWIDD:
“What Would I Do Differently? The short answer is lots! The long answer is EVERYTHING!!”
Kevin Kowbel
John Bean
Director
John Bean is a corporate director, who sat on 8 corporate boards (mining, clean energy technology, medical marijuana, and software technology), 2 private boards (professional services) and 3 not-for-profit boards. He was the CFO of 5 companies (hardware technology, cloud computing, energy, cannabis, and real estate & construction), where he often stepped out of a financial role to solve a problem. John also provides part-time CFO services to select companies needing financial management expertise, who are unable to pay for a full-time CFO. He is a former Accenture partner. As CFO of Western Canadian Properties Group, a real estate developer that capitalized on demographic shifts by building multifamily condominiums and apartments in metro markets, he raised $278 million of debt and equity financing.
As CFO of Aurora Cannabis Inc., a licensed producer of medical cannabis, he led the company’s finance operations during its first two years as a public company, when its market capitalization increased from $100 million to $3.9 billion.
As EVP & GM at SHL Systemhouse, the largest Canadian system integrator, the Chairman tasked Mr. Bean to extend SHL’s global reach to Asia. John developed and executed a strategy which established a 500-person footprint in Asia and which yielded $1.2 million net income to SHL in the first two years.
As a Worldwide Partner with Accenture, he advised executives in dozens of companies in 8 diverse industries. His team sold Accenture’s largest Canadian project: $65 million.
As CFO of Underground Energy, a Santa Barbara-based oil and gas company, he made it cash flow positive by cutting overhead from $450,000/mo. to $86,000/mo.
As CFO at Argon, a high-tech wireless video surveillance system manufacturer, he opened the market for a $200,000 price point product by closing initial sales.
As CFO at Monexa, a cloud billing company, Mr. Bean demonstrated to a Fortune 500 company that Monexa was safe-to-buy-from with a Business Continuity Plan; thereby winning the Company’s marquee customer contract with Pitney Bowes.
John has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and is a CPA, CA.