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Leadership

BUILT BY VETERANS
AND SECURITY ENGINEERS.

Three of the four people leading JPT served in uniform—more than 65 combined years across the Army and Coast Guard. The fourth has spent 25 years building encryption and secure platforms. Finance is led by a CPA who is also an Army officer.

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Founder & Chief Executive Officer

David Magaña

A 21-year U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient. David has spent his career mentoring soldiers through service and transition, and founded the Mission: Rally Point ecosystem in South Florida. He leads the Irreverent Warriors Fort Lauderdale chapter.

Veteran · Operator · Advocate

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Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Francesco Tripepi

Francesco brings more than 25 years in cybersecurity and enterprise technology across Europe and the United States. He founded and led Grapheene, an application-layer encryption and key-management platform for developers, and Doky, a document collaboration company. He holds a degree from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. At JPT, Francesco leads platform architecture, security design, and the technical foundation of Veteran Passport™.

Cybersecurity · Encryption · Platform Architecture

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Fractional Chief Financial Officer

Michael Sandberg

Michael is a CPA and finance executive with more than twenty years across banking, insurance, and technology. He has led finance for private-equity-backed fintech, insurtech, and wealth-technology companies through capital raises and acquisitions, and previously directed complex financial and regulatory reporting at AIG, Natixis, and Morgan Stanley. He is also a U.S. Army officer with over two decades of service, a Bronze Star recipient, and a former company commander in Afghanistan.

CPA · Veteran · Financial Governance

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Head of Operations

Kristopher Doelitsch

A 22-year U.S. Coast Guard veteran. Kristopher leads day-to-day operational execution, vendor and partner coordination, and program delivery across the JPT organization.

Veteran · Operations · Partnerships

Why this team

PROXIMITY TO THE PROBLEM.
DISCIPLINE TO BUILD THE RAIL.

The people building JPT have been on the veteran side of the counter. Three of four leaders served; one still does. That is not a marketing line—it is why we know which proof-of-service failures actually block people, and which only look like problems on a whiteboard.

Around that sits the discipline institutions require: encryption and platform security built by a 25-year practitioner, and financial governance led by a CPA whose prior work spans regulated reporting and private-equity-backed capital raises.

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MISSION EXPERIENCE.
TECHNICAL DISCIPLINE.

Building a trusted, reusable standard for proving veteran status.

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