Charles Guillemet

Ian Rogers is Chief Human Agency Officer at Ledger, a role created in April 2026 to lead the company's AI initiatives and ensure that autonomous AI agents do not remove individual control over sensitive actions including logins, identities, money, and credentials. His mandate centres on maintaining human oversight through a hardware root of trust, requiring users to authorise important agent-proposed actions on a Ledger device. Prior to this appointment, Rogers served as Chief Experience Officer at Ledger from 2020, a period during which the company introduced secure touchscreen devices. He joined Ledger in December 2020 from LVMH, where he had served as Chief Digital Officer. Before LVMH, he was CEO of Beats Music and CEO of Top Spin Media.

In his CXO capacity, Rogers participated in Ledger's podcast series, including episodes covering NFTs and the Ledger Stax hardware wallet. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering the components of Ledger's 2026 AI Security Roadmap, which includes the Ledger Device Management Kit—available at the time of the announcement—as well as planned elements covering hardware-based agent identities, an agent policy and intent review framework, and a proof-of-human system. The identity layer is intended to build on Ledger's existing Keyring Protocol.

Nicolas Bacca is Chef at zknox, a role he has held since February 2025, where he focuses on defensive technologies and decentralization within the crypto space. He also serves as Metaverse Finder at Le Centre, a company supporting cultural institutions through digital tools, a position he has held since April 2022.

Bacca co-founded Ledger in November 2014 and served there until September 2023, most recently as Co-Founder and VP Innovation. During his tenure, he played a central role in making smart card technology usable for the general public and in developing Ledger's hardware wallet line. He left Ledger after nearly a decade, citing a preference for smaller, faster-moving structures. Prior to Ledger, he created BTChip, an open-standard secure element-based hardware wallet that became the first version of the Ledger wallet. He also founded Ubinity, which developed smartcard operating systems, and co-founded Simulity, where he served as CTO from 2005 to 2012. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at Oberthur Technologies working on card systems and mobile solutions, finishing as R&D Solution Architect. He has made angel investments in companies including Morpho Labs and Bitstack. Outside his commercial roles, he coordinated the effort to freeze cryptocurrency ransoms during the kidnapping of David Balland, assembling a team of lawyers and security specialists to send freeze requests to exchanges and stablecoin issuers in real time. Bacca is a graduate engineer from ENSICAEN.

Pascal Gauthier is Chairman and CEO of Ledger, a Paris-headquartered manufacturer of hardware cryptocurrency wallets. He became CEO in January 2019, succeeding co-founder Eric Larchevêque, and was appointed Chairman in December 2020. He had previously joined Ledger as a seed investor and board member in 2014, and served as President from 2017 before assuming the CEO role. Under his leadership, Ledger expanded its product line to include Ledger Live, a digital asset management application, and Ledger Stax, a consumer hardware device. He has publicly advocated for self-custody of crypto assets, arguing that centralised platforms should be used to buy and sell cryptocurrencies rather than to hold them.

Gauthier co-founded Kaiko, a financial data platform focused on Bitcoin and digital asset market data, in 2014. He serves as a board member at Komainu, a regulated digital asset custody solution established as a joint venture between Nomura, Ledger, and CoinShares. Earlier in his career, he was COO at Criteo, the advertising technology company, where he contributed to the company's expansion to a EUR 2.17 billion market capitalisation. Prior to Criteo, he was involved with Kelkoo, a price comparison service sold to Yahoo for EUR 475 million. Before joining Ledger as President in 2017, he worked as a Venture Partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on Series A investments.

Sébastien Badault is VP of Enterprise at Ledger, where he leads the company's push into institutional-grade digital asset services. His mandate covers enterprise custody, governance and a suite of integrated services including off-exchange trading through Ledger's Tradelink product, staking, treasury management and payments. In this capacity he works with banks, asset managers and fintechs seeking to bridge traditional finance into digital assets using Ledger's hardware-backed security infrastructure.

Badault joined Ledger in an earlier role as VP of Metaverse and Web3, where he oversaw Ledger's Web3 strategy and the company's tools and services related to NFTs, gaming and brand collaborations, working directly with CEO Pascal Gauthier and Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers. Prior to Ledger, he served as Managing Director for France, Belgium and Luxembourg at Alibaba, where he built the company's Luxury Pavilion. Before Alibaba, he was among the first employees at both Google France and Amazon France, leading sales and marketing teams to build local market share for each organisation.