Our perspective

Access is the lever.

Every meaningful shift in small-cap markets has been a shift in who could reach them. Tokenization is the next step in a pattern this firm has watched play out before.

Founding narrative

"Pricing for small companies came from the pink sheets — a paper book printed each morning. That system digitized, and trading volume followed."

Assay Digital was founded on the view that the constraint on junior mining issuers has always been reach, not merit. The OTC Bulletin Board did not change the underlying companies; it changed who could see and transact in them. Digital transfer agent infrastructure applies the same logic to the register itself — and it is why the firm treats tokenization as market plumbing rather than a story to sell.

Team

Who you work with.

Rich Rozzi

Founder

Rich's career in capital markets began in over-the-counter brokerage houses in the 1980s, when pricing for small companies came from the pink sheets — a paper book printed each morning. He watched that entire system digitize with the OTC Bulletin Board, and watched trading volume follow. He sees tokenization as the same pattern one step further: broader access changing how capital finds small companies. That perspective — access as the lever, not hype — shapes how the firm approaches every issuer it works with.

Nicholas Rozzi

Business Development

Nicholas leads business development, working directly with mining company management teams to evaluate and structure their move onto digital transfer agent infrastructure. He brings nearly a decade of sales leadership experience across technology and financial services, including building and scaling sales teams, managing enterprise client relationships end to end, and developing the CRM and pipeline systems that support fast-growing operations. His background spans cross-border coordination and remote team management, giving him a practical, execution-first approach to bringing new issuers onto the platform.

Christopher Drazek

Technology

Christopher brings 25+ years of experience building data-driven marketing, automation, and AI systems for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 brands to fast-growth startups. As founder of an AI implementation consultancy, he designs autonomous agent infrastructure and systems architecture for enterprise clients — the same discipline that underlies a reliable digital transfer agent bridge. His background also spans quantitative and algorithmic trading, having built AI-powered trading systems across equities, options, futures, and crypto markets. That combination of infrastructure depth and capital-markets fluency shapes how the firm designs and validates its tokenization pipeline.