About Michael Hiles

Michael Hiles is a nationally recognized expert in information governance, risk, and compliance digital assets and cryptocurrencies. With over 40 years of software and data architecture and development experience, Michael began developing software on mainframe systems at an early age in the late 1970’s.

Michael began his career in the early 1990s as a software developer for government information systems platforms. In 2000, Michael’s team won a Smithsonian Laureate Award for being the first to ever connect a judicial system to the world wide web.

In 2017, Michael founded 10XTS, the leading information governance, risk, and compliance software and data solutions provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain space. In 2023, 10XTS became a co-founder in Conduit Network (https://cndt.io), a new Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) consortia that is the foundation for Asset Tokenization 2.0.