Unlike many other crypto coins, the creators of the Proton coin are public and listed on its official website. The founder of the Proton (XPR) coin is Marshall Hayner (also a CEO & Co-Founder of various companies like QuickCoin, Dogecoin.info and Block.io). The other Co-Founder is Glenn Merien (founder of Dogecoin.info). Apart from them, there are eight other people in the team that you can check here.