The main founders of blockchain $BNB are three: Anatoly Yakovenko, Greg Fitzgerald, and Stephen Akridge.
They all worked at Qualcomm. Among them, Anatoly Yakovenko is the mastermind behind the first white paper, with a very hardcore engineering background. He worked at Qualcomm for 13 years and also led distributed systems development at Mesosphere, as well as leading compression systems development at Dropbox.