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Alexander Skidanov is the co-founder of NEAR Protocol. He began his professional career at Microsoft in 2009, then joined MemSQL in 2011 as Engineer #1, where he worked for five years as Architect and Director of Engineering. He has two ICPC medals (gold in 2008 and bronze in 2005).
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Arpit Sharma
Arpit Sharma is Head of Ecosystem at Aethir and previously COO at PWR Chain. He has also worked at the NEAR Foundation with Polygon Technology.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Chaosmos
Chaosmos is the Head of Asia at Botanix and previously worked at CoinDesk and NEAR Protocol. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Irmantas Motiejūnas
Irmantas Motiejūnas is co-founder and CTO of WhiteBridge and has worked at Google and Microsoft.
Luke Shi
Luke Shi is the co-founder of Haedal.He graduated from Peking University.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.