Emily Herrick

Founder · Product leader · Crypto policy writer

Making blockchain safer and more compliant.

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01 — Now

What I'm working on

Founded 2020 · Operating company

Epeius

The company that builds and runs the products on FoolProof's patents, including CAPA, a compliance and verification platform that connects asset owners with certified appraisers.

2022 — present · Cofounder

FoolProof Labs

IP holding company: patented, open-source tools for secure blockchain transactions and decentralized user management that let blockchain products get to SOC 2 compliance.

02 — Patents

Inventions

Granted · US 12,293,358 B2

Shadow Token

A controllable "shadow" of an on-chain asset, so it can be lent, shared or delegated without giving up ownership.

Patent pending · Under examination

Shadow Token: transfer review

Reads what a transfer will actually do before it goes through, and holds anything that fails the check in a queue for the owner to approve.

Patent pending · Continuation

Shadow Token: bound tokens

Binds a second token to one already held, so access can be handed to another wallet while the original never moves.

Patent pending · Continuation

Shadow Token: derived assets

Issues a derived asset that points back to the original and grants access to a resource on its strength.

03 — Experience

12+ years in product

Mostly SaaS for regulated industries: life sciences, insurance and HR tech.

B.A. Economics, UC Santa Cruz · Economics exchange, London School of Economics · Scrum Master Certified

  1. Head of Product · ArisGlobal

    2020–2022

    Drug safety and regulatory software for life sciences

    Shaped the content-management vision behind an $84M investment case

    Being acquired by Dassault Systèmes for about $1.8B (announced July 2026)

  2. Product Manager · AllyO

    2019–2020

    Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting

    Cut deployment times by up to 90% with self-service tooling

    Acquired by HireVue, 2020

  3. VP Strategy & Operations · Family business

    2016–2019

    Led strategy and operations for a family-owned company

  4. Product Manager · Veeva Vault

    2014–2016

    Cloud content management for life sciences

  5. Associate PM → Product Specialist · EIS Group

    2010–2014

    Core platform software for insurance carriers

    Acquired by Amdocs for about $340M, November 2026

04 — Contact

Advising, product work, speaking or press

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

emily@foolproof.xyz