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Doug Petkanics
Co-founder CEO
Previous Experience

Previously co-founded Wildcard and Hyperpublic, and served as VP Engineering at both. Hyperpublic was acquired by Groupon in February 2012.

Past software development experience includes data focused architecture, agile development (Ruby/Rails, Python), mobile development (iPhone, Android), enterprise web applications, mission control software for the Department of Defense, modifications to the Bittorrent protocol, and contributions to the original XQuery implementation.

Eric Tang
Co-founder CTO
Previous Experience
Co-Founder, CTO

Technical Advisor

Member of Technical Staff

Lead Developer

Yondon Fu
Co-founder Director of Engineering
Previous Experience
Software Engineering Intern

Software Engineering Intern

Developer Intern

Intern

Jieyi Long
Co-founder CTO
Previous Experience
Co-founder and CTO

Co-founder of MadSkill Game Studios

R&D Engineer

Senior Member of Technical Staff

 

Mitch Liu
Co-founder CEO
Previous Experience

Co-founder of Gameview Studios (acquired by DeNA) and Tapjoy (acquired by ironSource)

Wes Levitt
Head of Strategy
Previous Experience
Chief Financial Officer

Partner

Senior Investment Associate

Associate

University of California, Berkeley
Jerry Kowall
Head Of Content & NFTs
Previous Experience
Managing Director

Chief Content Officer and Co-Founder
BitMovio – a gamified video streaming marketplace focused on Millennials and Gen Z, and built on blockchain tech.

Advisor

Business Consultant

Roneil Rumburg
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer  
Previous Experience

Roneil most recently co-founded Kleiner Perkins’ early-stage seed fund. At KP, he was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies, including Lightning Labs.

Roneil attended Stanford University and previously co-founded a Bitcoin peer to peer payment company called Backslash.

Forrest Browning
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Previous Experience

Forrest is a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, and most recently was a Co-Founder of StacksWare, an enterprise datacenter management platform started from a Stanford University research project. The company provides analytics at scale for Fortune 500 customers, and was successfully acquired in late 2017.

Alexandre Dreyfus
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Previous Experience
CEO and Owner

Co-Founder & Director

Emma Diskin
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Previous Experience
Global Director PR & Social Media

Social Media & PR Consultant

Head of Social Media

Max Rabinovitch
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER  
Previous Experience
Business strategy & commercial lead.
Author of Chiliz white paper, an L1 protocol & blockchain fintech provider for sports & entertainment. industries.
Creative Director

Head Copywriter

Thibaut Pelletier
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
Previous Experience
Chief Technology Officer

Director Application Development

Senior Manager Application Development

Fiobian Manicolo
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Previous Experience
Financial Controller

Audit Senior

Local Leader

Mark Verdegaal
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Previous Experience
Chief Product Officer

Vodafone Spain
Jon Trask
CEO & Founder
Previous Experience

Founder/CEO – Current
Blockchain Guru: Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence consulting and software development firm specializing in enabling corporations to develop and/or integrate blockchain and machine learning into their business.

Blockchain Pioneer

Corporate Member

Founding Member

Peter Thorsteinson
Chief Technical Officer
Mike Meurin
Chief Digital Currency Officer
Previous Experience
Sales Director

Vice President Sales

Strategic Enterprise Account Manager Western Canada

Bruce Pon
Founder / Board Member
Previous Experience
Founder / CEO

Founder / Partner / Supervisory Board

Founder / CEO

Trent McConaghy
Founder
Previous Experience

Ocean Protocol, since 2017

BigchainDB blockchain database in 2015

ascribe NFT platform in 2013

Founder Solido; acquired by Siemens 2017

Founder Analog Design Automation; acquired by Synopsys in 2004

Razvan Olteanu
COO
Previous Experience
  • CEO of a business, leading 400 employees and over 50M EUR turnover
  • IT systems integration; Solution Architect in the Software Development Department to Chief Development Officer.
  • Software Consultant in IBM
  • Founder at Computer Universal; a company offering technical services.
Christina Pon
Co-Founder
Previous Experience
Founder

Marketing Director

Marketing and Communication Director

Founder

BTL Director

Client Service Director
Graffiti BBDO; Advertising company

 

Masha McConaghy
Co-Founder
Previous Experience
Founder / CMO / Strategic Partnerships

Founder / CCO

Cultural Projects Director

Curator

Sheridan Johns
Head of Ecosystem (Partnership and Growth)
Previous Experience
Country Manager, DACH

Founder

Business Development (Executive Education)

 

Dr. Ben Goertzel
CEO / Co-Founder / Chief Scientist
Previous Experience
Chairman

Chairman
Chief Scientist
Vice Chairman
Adjunct Research Professor
Chief Scientist
Chief Science Officer
CTO
CEO
CEO
CTO

Dr. David Hanson
Co-Founder / Former Boardmember
Previous Experience
CEO, Owner

Founder
Founder, CEO
Sculptor/ Robotics research and design consultant

Janet Adams
COO
Previous Experience
AI and Risk Expert

Head of Strategic Projects and Performance
TSB; AI, MI, Automation and process optimization for the SME bank at TSB

Head of Risk & Controls | Head of AI, SME
TSB
Global Head of Conduct

Mario Casiraghi
Head of Crypto
Previous Experience
Co-Founder

Group Chief Financial Officer

Strategic Advisor
trategic Advisor
Partner & Managing Director

Chief Financial Officer and Chief of Strategy, Co-Founder

Global Advisor

Dr. Matthew Ikle
Chief AI Officer
Previous Experience
Professor of Math/Comp Sci

Project Assistant
Scientific Advisor
Aritificial Intelligence Technology Officer
Artificial Intelligence consultant
Director of Research and Development

Jan Horlings
VP of Product
Previous Experience
Business (Strategy) Consultant

Teamlead / Project manager

Multimedia Manager

Richard Craib
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Previous Experience

Richard graduated with a degree in pure mathematics from Cornell University. He built a global equity fund powered by machine learning at $15 billion asset manager, Prudential (M&G).

This is where he first developed Numerai’s approach to financial data regularization, a crucial step in applying machine intelligence to the stock market.

Dan Spier
Chief Operating Officer
Previous Experience

Dan’s prior role was head of Portfolio Trading at Aperio Group (now Blackrock), a tax optimized, quantitative SMA provider with $50bn+ AUM. In that role Dan oversaw the firm’s trade execution and optimization efforts along with related infrastructure.

Before Aperio, Dan was Head Trader of Standard Pacific Capital, a $5B global long/short equity hedge fund where he led the trading function with a specific research focus on TMT, financial, and industrial sectors.

His career began at Morgan Stanley, where he worked in the Private Wealth Management division supporting ultra-high-net-worth individuals and venture capital clients.

Judy Cen
Head of Finance
Previous Experience
Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

 

Andrea Berry
Head Of Business Development
Previous Experience
Co-Founder & Advisor

Strategic Accounts & Partnerships

Director, Strategic Accounts

Director of Global Engagement

Kyle Laffey
Head Of Partnerships
Previous Experience
Esports & Gaming Brand Sponsorship Consultant

reative Director

Gaming Celebrity, Influencer, & Content Creator

Owen Ching
Head of Cloud Operations & IT
Previous Experience
Head of Cloud Operations & IT

Senior Manager

Director of Engineering

Senior Director Of Engineering

Architect

Mark Dave
Chief Technical Officer Senior Blockchain Developer
Previous Experience
Founder – Present day

CMO

CEO and Founder

Mobile & Web Developer

Lisa Mark
Head of Community Professional & licensed Realtor
Previous Experience
Marketing & Office Coordinator

Head of Community

Realtor® & Co-Founder of Oak & Co.

 

Hamza Bleich
Head of Content Professional cinematographer
Previous Experience
Responsible marketing

Videographer

Lighting Technician
Propoganda Production

Santiago Saracho
Real Estate Expert MENA Professional & licensed Real Estate Agent
Previous Experience
Real Estate Broker

Gestión de recursos humanos

 

Amin Mansouri
Real Estate Expert MENA Professional & licensed Real Estate Agent
Previous Experience
Sales Director

Property Consultant

Sales Manager

Talal Raad
Real Estate Expert MENA Professional & licensed Real Estate Agent
Previous Experience
Real Estate Agent

Front Desk Manager

Thomas Onel
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Previous Experience
Utrecht University

Bart de Bruijn
Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder
Adam Schmideg
Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
Previous Experience
Lead Developer

Interim Chief Technology Officer

Head Of Engineering

Technical Product Manager

Agile Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager
Prezi

 

Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder of Chainlink
Previous Experience
Co-Founder

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO

General Partner

Co-Founder & CEO

Intern-in-Residence –> Associate

Steve Ellis
Cofounder of Chainlink
Previous Experience
Cofounder and CTO

Cofounder and CTO

Software Engineer

Teacher’s Asisstant

Mike Derezin
COO, Chainlink Labs
Previous Experience
Member Board Of Trustees

Board Observer

Investor

VP
LinkedIn

Benedict Chan
Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs
Previous Experience
Chief Technology Officer

Platform Developer

Software Development Engineer II

Partner

Head, Quantitative Strategies

Product Manager

DevOps Engineer

 

Ari Juels
Technical Advisor
Previous Experience
Chief Scientist

Professor

Chief Scientist

Distinguished Engineer

Director
RSA Laboratories

Dahlia Malkhi
Distinguished Scientist at Chainlink Labs
Previous Experience
Chief Technology Officer

Lead Researcher

Co-Chair of Avisory Board

Principal Researcher

Principal Researcher

Associate Professor Of Computer Science

Senior Researcher

Dominic Williams
Founder & Chief Scientist
Previous Experience
President & CTO

Digitial Assets

Crypto enzyme

Founder/CEO

Founder/CEO

Founder/CEO

 

Riccardo Coli
Chief Of Staff
Previous Experience
Head of Aerospace & Defence

Secretary General
Italian Aerospace

Aviation and Aerospace Working Group
China-Italy Chamber of Commerce

Junior Expert – Aviation & Aerospace

Paul Meeusen
Vice President Finance
Previous Experience
Founder and owner

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Chief Product Officer

Interim Management – CEO Switzerland

CEO and Co-Founder
B3i

Head of Distributed Ledger Technology
Swiss Re

Lomesh Dutta
Vice President of Growth
Previous Experience
P Growth

Vice President and Head of Growth
Paytm

Angel/Advisor

Co-Founder and CEO (acquired by Paytm)

Director, Business & Corporate Development (acquired by AVG – an Avast company)

Co-Founder and COO (acquired by Location Labs)

Jan Camenisch
Chief Technology Officer
Previous Experience
Technical Governance Board Member

Principal Research Staff Member

Research Assistant Professor

esearch Assistant

Samuel Burri
Vice President Of Engineering
Previous Experience

Section Manager Controls Software
Schindler Group

Predoctoral Researcher

Intern

Eli Ben-Sasson
Co-Founder / President
Previous Experience

Co-inventor of the STARK, FRI and Zerocash protocols and a Founding Scientist of the Zcash Company. Over the years he held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard and MIT, and, most recently, was a Professor of CS at Technion.

Uri Kolodny
Co-Founder / CEO
Previous Experience

Co-founded several technology companies, among them OmniGuide (an MIT spinoff developing optical fibers for endoscopic surgery), and Mondria (developer of tools for visualization of big data). Previously, Uri also served as an EIR with two Israeli VC firms, and as an analyst at McKinsey.

Ben Golub
Executive Chairman and CEO
Previous Experience

Venture Advisor
Mayfield Fund

Advisor
Minio, Inc.

Advisor
Streamlio

Advisor
Quilt Data, Inc.

CEO
Docker, Inc

President and CEO
Gluster

President
Comcast

President and CEO
Plaxo

CMO, SVP of Marketing and Government Affairs
VERISIGN

Katherine Johnson
Chief Legal and People Officer, Head of Compliance
Previous Experience

General Counsel, VP Compliance and HR @ Storj Labs

Director Of Compliance Regulation @ Coinbase

Manager @ EY

Counsel @ Credit Suisse

Attorney @ Law Offices of Katherine D. Johnson

Axiom Attorney @ JPMorgan Chase

Axiom Attorney @ BNY Mellon

Associate @ Vedder Price P.C.

Shawn Wilkinson
Founder and CSO
Previous Experience

Founder CEO/CTO @ Storj Labs Inc. – 9 years

 

Dominick Marino
Senior Solutions Architect
Previous Experience

Principal Solutions Consultant @ OpenText

Director Information Technology @ ArborMetrix, Inc.

Systems Administrator @ ArborMetrix, Inc.

Systems Administrator @ Michigan Heart, P.C.

John Gleeson
Chief Operating Officer
Previous Experience

VP Operations @Storj Labs

Customer Success Director @ Storj Labs

Technical Marketing @ Covisint, an OpenText Company

Collaboration Program Director @ 1976

Director of Technology @ C4 Communication Pty Ltd

Director of Technology @ Clear!Blue

Associate Attorney @ Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC

Prerna Parashar
Senior Data Engineer
Previous Experience

Data Engineer
University of Cincinnati

Data Engineer
Atos Syntel

Senior Software Developer
NIIT Technologies Limited

Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sam Williams
CEO & Co-Founder
Previous Experience
Mentor

Technical Advisor

CEO and Co-Founder

Sebastian Groth
Chief Operating Officer
Previous Experience
Funding Council Representative

Consultant | Senior Project Manager
hy

Program Manager @ Techstars Berlin

Mentor @ Startup Campus Berlin

Mentor @ Startup Weekend

Mentor @ UTEC Ventures

Advisor @ athlead

Ian Foley
Chief Business Officer
Previous Experience

Venture Partner
Xenon Ventures

Head of Corporate Development
Credit Sesame

SVP, Business Development
Uphold Inc

CEO and Founder
Acuteiq

Vice President, Sales
YuMe

Vice President, Business Development
RhythmOne

Director
SRI International

Managing Director
MCC Global

Eric Schiermeyer
CEO, Gala Games
Previous Experience

Advisor and Investor @ Kushla Life Sciences
Advisor and Investor @ Konvoy
Advisor and Investor @ Snipfeed
Advisor and Investor @ Thumbraise
Advisor and Investor @ Gracias
Advisor and Investor @ Scooto
Chief Marketing Officer @ Carnivore

Founder @ Zynga

John Osvald
President of Games
Previous Experience

Head of Product, Mobile Games
Electronic Arts (EA)

CEO
Carnivore Inc.

SVP Games
Zynga

Co-Founder
Shiver Entertainment

Sarah Buxton
Chief Operating Officer
Previous Experience

Co-Founder
Bloom

Member
Alchemist Accelerator

Commercial and Strategy Director
Cafecreate

Hong Ncsoft
Snr. Product Manager
Previous Experience

Head of Global Production
NCSOFT

Head of Business Development KR
mopay AG

Director of Business Development
RNTS Media, GmbH

Manager of Business Team
LinkedIn

Business Dev Manager
Nexon

Apprenticeship
Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Mark Skaggs
SVP of Games
Previous Experience

Chief Creative, Co-Founder
Prémaman

Founder
My Own Thing

Mentor Google Indie Game Accelerator (pro-bono)
Google

Director and Board member
Moonfrog Labs

SVP of Games
Zynga

Member Advisory Board
Apmetrix

Member Advisor Board
RRKidz – Reading Rainbow

Managing Member
Funstar Ventures

Stephen Nichols
CTO
Previous Experience

Full Stack Engineer
Gala Games

Senior Principal Engineer
Certain Affinity

Managing Member
Realms Online, LLC

CEO
GameSalad, Inc

CTO
GameSalad, Inc

Udder Destruction Developer
Retired Astronaut Collective

Maxim Blagov
Co-Founder & CEO
Previous Experience

Has been running Enjin since 2008.

University of Technology Sydney

Witek Radomski
Co-Founder & CTO
Previous Experience

Has run Enjin since 2008.

 

Oscar Franklin Tan
CFO & CLO
Previous Experience

Of Counsel (Venture Capital/Blockchain/M&A/Corporate)
DLA Piper · Full-time

Legal (Investment Banking, Treasury, Corporate Banking)
BDO Unibank

Associate
Jones Day

US Associate, London and Singapore
Allen & Overy LLP

Associate
Angara Abello Cruz Concepcion & Regala Law Offices”

Rene Stefancic
COO
Previous Experience

Head of Ecosystem
Enjin

Partnerships Lead
Enjin

Blockchain Advisor
NFTFrontier (Present)

IT Consultant
RS IT Consulting (Present)

Advisor
CoinCodex

Head Of Marketing
CoinCodex

Product Manager
CoinCodex

Advisor
NextCash

Product Development Lead
Adriatic Slovenica d.d.

Digital Marketing Lead
Adriatic Slovenica d.d.

Marketing Associate
Adriatic Slovenica d.d.

Digital Marketing Specialist
Piaggio Group Slovenia