# About LayerV — The Team Behind the Invisible Internet

> LayerV co-authored OpenNHP, the open standard for making infrastructure invisible until identity is proven — through the Cloud Security Alliance and the IETF.

Source: https://layerv.ai/about/

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About

# We’re building the invisible internet.

Infrastructure that can’t be attacked, because there’s nothing to find — and an open standard, one anyone can inspect, that makes it work.

## Why we built LayerV.

[![](https://layerv.ai/images/founder-story-smile.webp)Watch the founder film 3 min](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyuO-Q5dAMg)

Justin Posey, co-founder and CEO. [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyuO-Q5dAMg)

Vision

An internet where nothing is exposed until it’s proven — no address to scan, no door to knock on, until the right identity asks.

Mission

Make every app, API, and service invisible until verified — for the people and the agents you approve — on a standard that’s open to everyone.

The team

## The Team

### Justin Posey

Co-Founder & CEO 

25 years in security and infrastructure at CrowdStrike, Cisco, AppDynamics, Microsoft, and Disney.

- CSA OpenNHP co-author
- IETF draft
- UN General Assembly
[LinkedIn ↗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/posey/)

### Ben Chen

Co-Founder & CTO 

Built the cryptographic layer that makes infrastructure invisible, and drives OpenNHP adoption across the open-source and enterprise community.

- OpenNHP architect
- Reference implementation
[LinkedIn ↗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/404man/)

### Joe Ollis

Co-Founder & COO 

Former Microsoft group manager who launched Bing for iOS across 26 markets. Runs go-to-market, partnerships, and capital.

- $350M+ scaled
- $150M raised
- Microsoft
[Website ↗](https://joeollis.com)

Recognized where it counts

## You don’t have to take our word for it.

### Cloud Security Alliance

We co-author the OpenNHP specification through the CSA working group.

[cloudsecurityalliance.org ↗](https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/)

### IETF

The protocol is published as an Internet-Draft, on the standards track.

[datatracker.ietf.org ↗](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-opennhp-ztcpp-nhp/)

### United Nations

Addressed the General Assembly on digital identity for humans and AI agents, September 2025.

[Watch the address ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkyAGNBd4CM&t=3411s)

### Open source

OpenNHP is public and community-audited — no black boxes, no vendor lock-in.

[github.com/OpenNHP ↗](https://github.com/OpenNHP/opennhp)

## An open standard, built in the open.

The protocol underneath LayerV isn’t ours to keep.

13K+ GitHub stars

200+ Contributors

2.5K+ Forks

[Careers ↗ Small team, hard problems, foundational infrastructure.](mailto:info@layerv.ai) [The standard → OpenNHP — the spec we wrote.](https://layerv.ai/standards/) [Security → Vulnerability disclosure policy.](https://layerv.ai/security/) [Contact → Talk to us.](https://layerv.ai/contact/)

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