Xavier Hendrickx

Co-Founder & CEO @ Radix

About

I build trusted systems for environments where failure is expensive. Over the past decade, my work has focused on one recurring question: how do we create infrastructure that people can rely on without requiring blind trust? As co-founder and former CTO/CEO of NGRAVE, I helped build one of the industry's most trusted digital asset security platforms, bringing high-assurance hardware security to users globally in collaboration with IMEC and leading security experts. That experience led me to a broader realization: The next challenge is no longer to protect keys, but to govern authority. As institutions increasingly delegate decisions to software, AI, and automated infrastructure, the question shifts from “who executed the action?” to “who decided it was allowed?” Today I’m building Radix: trusted governance infrastructure that enables institutions to retain independently verifiable control over automated actions before execution. Areas of interest: • Trusted computing • Hardware roots of trust • Applied cryptography • Governance systems • Autonomous infrastructure • Financial infrastructure

Country

Canada

City

Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Industry

Internet

Skill

Cybersecurity Strategy, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Asset Security, Risk Management, Security Assessment, Security Engineering, Software Development Security, Security Operations, Security Management, Communications Security, Network Security, Scrum, Project Management, Blockchain, Web Development, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Polymer, Commercial Real Estate, Business Strategy

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Radix

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Building trusted governance infrastructure for autonomous systems. Radix provides independently verifiable governance before authority is exercised. As automated systems gain the ability to move money and execute decisions on behalf of institutions, governance becomes an infrastructure problem. Currently focused on: • Hardware-rooted policy enforcement • Governance receipts • Trust boundaries • Financial infrastructure

Interim CEO

NGRAVE

2025-7 - 2025-12 · 6 mos

Stepped in to lead the company through a critical transition period, focusing on organizational stability, board alignment, and preparing the organization for its next phase of growth.

Co-Founder & CTO

NGRAVE

2018-4 - 2025-8 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Brussels Metropolitan Area

NGRAVE developed one of the industry's most trusted digital asset security platforms, bringing high-assurance hardware security to users globally in collaboration with IMEC and a world-renowned team of cryptography and hardware security experts. As co-founder and CTO, I led the technical vision and architecture from inception through commercial deployment. Highlights: • Architected and led development of the NGRAVE security platform across hardware, operating system, and application layers. • Delivered NGRAVE ZERO, integrating ProvenCore, the world's only EAL7-certified formally verified microkernel, into a consumer security product. • Built a three-product security architecture spanning secure hardware (ZERO), encrypted recovery (GRAPHENE), and companion software (LIQUID). • Scaled secure infrastructure and product delivery to users across 100+ countries without a known security breach since launch. • Led technical collaboration with IMEC and leading cryptography and hardware security researchers.

CTO

Swarm City

2018-4 - 2018-12 · 9 mos

Worldwide

Swarm City explored early models for peer-to-peer coordination and decentralized marketplaces during the formative years of the Ethereum ecosystem. As CTO, I led technical architecture and coordinated a globally distributed open-source contributor network to build infrastructure for self-organizing economic systems. Highlights: - Architected peer-to-peer transaction and coordination systems - Led distributed product development across a global open-source community - Developed early experience in decentralized governance and digitally native institutions

Application Developer

Swarm City

2017-6 - 2018-4 · 11 mos

Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

Joined Swarm City during its early growth phase and contributed across product and protocol development. Worked on decentralized application architecture and user-facing systems supporting open marketplace interactions.