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Amir Mehrbakhsh is Head of Marketing at Walrus and previously worked at Sui, Celo, and Ripple.
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Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
Claire Belmont
Claire Belmont is a principal at Stardust and former product Partner at Celo. She is a security engineer by training and was previously a co-founder of Enigma. Prior to Celo, she was a product manager at Google.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
Danny Aranda
Danny Aranda is the co-founder of PartyDAO and previously the Managing Director of Ripple Europe. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Xochitl Cazador
Xochitl Cazador is Optimism's Chief of staff and was previously Chief Ecosystem Development Officer at Celo and Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Cisco. She is good at strategy and operations, and is passionate about social impact and blockchain. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.
Ron Hammond
Ron Hammond is currently the Head of Policy and Advocacy at Wintermute.Previously he worked at Ripple and Blockchain Association.
Pranay Mohan
Pranay Mohan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomad. Ex-Product Manager at Celo, and Ex-Developer Relations at 0(1) Labs.
