Joaquin Mendes Izard

Head of Partnerships at Taiko

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Joaquin Mendes Izard is Head of Partnerships at Taiko Labs and previously he was Head of vertical Growth at Polygon. He is a graduate of the University of Navarra, the Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Work Experience

Taiko

Head of Partnerships

Polygon

Vertical Growth Lead

Dec, 2022 - Jul, 2023

PwC

Relevance Person

Arpit Sharma

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Amanda Jacobsen

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Kathleen Chu

Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.

Olga Fetisova

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Terence Lam

Terence is the co-founder and CSO of Taiko, and previously was Vice President of Loopring, co-founder of Up Blockchain, and Vice President of HTC.

Simon Wu

Simon Wu is the co-founder of Meex and formerly served as the chief security officer of Huobi.

Brecht Devos

Brecht Devos is the Co-founder & CTO at Taiko.Brecht used to work for Loopring as the Chief Architect, but over the last 12 months or so, he had been working on PSE’s zkEVM with researchers and engineers from the Ethereum Foundation and other open-source projects. Brecht leads Taiko’s Zero-Knowledge R&D team with an objective to implement all remaining EVM opcodes and to customize the zkEVM to fit Taiko’s layer 2 protocol design.

Matthew Finestone

Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder at Taiko. He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.

Mudit Gupta

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Phil Chang

Phil Chang is the Deputy General Counsel at Solana and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Boston College.