Adriana - a.k.a Adri - is based in Sydney, Australia, and has been in crypto since 2013. She joined the AlgoFam in 2019 when hosting Algorand events in Australia, during Silvio Micali’s launch tour.

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Adri moved to Sydney from Brazil in 2005 to pursue a degree in Applied Computing and, since graduating in 2009, she worked as a market researcher, a front end developer - with Magento, Wordpress and Webflow - and digital marketing consultant.

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Part of Algorand’s first Ambassadors cohort in 2020, Adri joined the Community Champions program in 2021 and was part of Staci’s first wave of hires, joining us full-time in April 2022 as Head of Community for Australia.

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In 2021, Adriana was the recipient of Blockchain Australia’s Community Leader of the Year award, for her grassroots work in the Australian crypto community.

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Moved by her desire to “make web3 governance magic happen”, Adri was appointed Governance Program Manager in November 2022, leading the General Governance continuous delivery and accountable for the implementation of the xGov Program in 2023.

Alan is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the grants program and other ecosystem-focused programs like SupaGrants and Dev Awards. He values building productive working relationships with grantees and other stakeholders to ensure a positive user experience. Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation, he worked across diverse industries including banking, FMCG, pharma and IT. 

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He is married to an Italian lady and has two small boys who like nothing better than waking him up at all hours of the morning. When he’s not busy with them, he enjoys traveling, cooking and scuba-diving. He’s also not averse to doing anything that involves falling or jumping from a height such as paragliding and skydiving. 

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Alessandro runs the developer tooling vertical at Algorand Foundation, as a former software engineer turned product guy Alessandro has experience in working, consulting and advising in both startups and tradfi companies.   

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A self proclaimed crypto maximalist, Alessandro believes that blockchain has the potential to revolutionize and improve every aspect of modern day society and constantly works to achieve this vision.

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Alexa joined the Algorand Foundation as Head of Brand & Content in October 2022, after more than a year at Algorand Inc. as Senior Director of Ecosystem Marketing. 

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Alexa has more than a decade of experience in cross-functional marketing roles with media brands, agencies, and trade associations. She has brought myriad projects of all scales to life, from VIP dinners and corporate conferences to OOH campaigns ...and even an interactive robot petting zoo! Along the way she has worked with top talent (hello, Cher!) and high-profile leaders, and in collaboration with brand partners such as Samsung, PlayStation, and Tesla.

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Prior to joining the #algofam, Alexa served as Director of Event Programming at ICSC; Director of Editorial Programming - Experiential at Condé Nast; and Senior Editorial Events Manager at Fast Company magazine. She started her career at The New Yorker, where she was tasked with helping several of the magazine’s most prolific writers set up their first Twitter accounts.Alexa lives outside Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband and their dog Derby.

Ana has over 12 years working in administrative roles for different business industries in Brazil, UK and Ireland. 

Ana has vast experience in administrative support to multiple executives, in high-pressure and dynamic environments, and diverse teams.

Ana is now assisting the European Executive team in managing a variety of administrative needs. 

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Anil is Country Head for India at the Algorand Foundation, where he develops and oversees execution of the strategy to expand the developer base and company ecosystem building on Algorand in the world's largest democracy.

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Anil has spent the last nearly three decades shuttling between the US and India working across government, tech and finance platforms looking for the right home to create and champion solutions for a more inclusive economy. He thinks he's now found it.

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While his home address is Los Angeles, Anil’s heart and stomach reside full time in India. And he firmly believes that a day spent in India without consuming at least one amazing meal is a day wasted.

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Anita works in the Finance Operation department at the Algorand Foundation where she is mainly responsible for operating expenses payment process, financial accounting and expenses analysis.

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Before joining Algorand foundation, she worked in different finance departments in the manufacturing industry for over 5 years.

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Autumn is Head of Community (Americas) for the Algorand Foundation. She loves working at the intersection of technology and social impact, and wants to share the revolution and opportunity happening in blockchain with others.

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Autumn brings to the Foundation over a decade of marketing and communications experience for digital companies, and direct experience growing blockchain communities. 

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Previous to Algorand, Autumn was Head of Marketing & Community for shEOS - the first female-founded block producer on the EOS network. She’s most proud of co-launching the shEOS Foundation, which empowered young women in the Philippines with technology scholarships.

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Autumn’s favorite activities are camping and traveling with her husband and young daughters, waterskiing, snow-skiing, playing ball with her rescue pup, blasting music, making soup and hugging trees.

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Ben has been a Developer Advocate at Algorand since October 2021. In his role he chews glass and unblocks devs.

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Previously he worked at a large ISP writing software to collect and report on cable modem telemetry data.

Camilo is the Algorand Foundation Community Manager in Colombia and is responsible for growing the local ecosystem of developers, startups, and enthusiasts.

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Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation, Camilo has been involved in the blockchain ecosystem since 2018 being the leader of the Hyperledger community in Colombia and is one of the founding members of the Hyperledger Latinoamerica chapter. Camilo is also part of the Chainlink community as an advocate.

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Camilo has extensive experience in technology-based project management, design of electronic devices, structuring of Blockchain-based solutions, and smart contracts development.

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Carolina has been running global events since 2005 and has enjoyed her amazing journey. Carolina is now focused on  designing the events of the future, retaining the essence of what they have meant in the past, to evolve with this new age of social interaction.

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Carolina is a mum of 2 amazing little boys and her philosophy of life involves a harmonious balance of wellness, travel, design and food.

Cecilia is a governance professional who is responsible for ensuring Algorand Foundation complies with corporate governance principles and regulations.  she worked in various virtual and traditional financial institutions and has over 10 years’ experience in company secretary. She also had experience in compliance and AML.

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Cecilia is a Chartered Secretary and Chartered Governance Professional of the CGI (UK) and The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries. She holds a Master Degree of Corporate Governance and a Bachelor Degree in Business.

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Chris Kim is a Developer Advocate at Algorand, where he helps developers learn how to successfully build sustainable, scalable, and secure dApps leveraging the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM). Previously Chris brought optimized solutions to companies like OKX and UNICEF as a business consultant at Blockchain at Berkeley, which is an organization determined to act as the blockchain hub of the Bay Area (California).

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With his passion for blockchain education, Chris led several projects regarding NFTs, reward-based team management, and payment to introduce blockchain’s use cases to university students. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Connie runs people operations at the Foundation, she is passionate about co-creating a community where each person will become a better version of themselves, who own their voices, thrive with the right support, respect and trust.

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She is a firm believer of human potential and human connection. “Little by little, you will turn into stars. Little by little, you will turn into the whole sweet amorous universe.”

Daniel helps grow the DeFi ecosystem on Algorand, Algorand users can trade for the assets that they want through the various DEXes and participate in borrow & lend platforms to obtain a yield on their assets. We inch closer towards becoming the financial chain

Daniel Yang is the head of investment and diversification for the Algorand Foundation and is a member of the investment committee.

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Daniel is passionnate and deeply involved with blockchain technology since 2016. In his previous role, he was an integral part of the Cumberland Asia team, a leading cryptocurrency trading firm in the space. In his previous life, Daniel worked in the institutional trading business for TD Bank, having managed and traded FX and Precious Metals products.

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He holds a Masters of Management Finance from Queens university in Canada and is a CFA Charterholder.

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In his free time, he follows religiously his hometown professional hockey team and enjoys the frosty feeling of playing ice hockey while living in the tropical climate of Singapore.

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Danuta is a highly committed and versatile journalist specialized in communication, press and organization of private and corporate events. She has been in the background since March 2022 working with Carolina Carrasco, Head of Events at Algorand, ensuring the successful planning and execution of events.

Before joining Algorand as an Events Specialist, Danuta was working as a freelance press officer and an event project manager. She started her career in niche fashion and perfume in the luxury sector as a head of press and PR, organizing events and press calls, and representing the Spanish press for the international fashion fair Pitti Immagine Uomo. Her professional experience has also been enriched by her work as an editor and academic coordinator in the journalism department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. A trip to India led her to explore the e-commerce sector as a marketing and communication manager.

Danuta absolutely loves traveling and she is an interior design enthusiast. She lives in Barcelona with her husband and son.

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David spent ten years of his life working as a Mechanical Engineer, another ten working in the events industry in production and operations roles, and is now working in Web3 as Developer Outreach & Programs Lead at the Algorand Foundation. In his spare time, David has immersed himself in all things Blockchain Technology related over the last five plus years, bringing this knowledge and his process oriented approach to the role. 

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David currently enjoys paying over the odds for a round of golf, being a member of a golf club but not getting out as often as he’d like!

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Deirdre joined from financial superapp Revolut, where she served as a member of the Group Executive team as the Head of Global Affairs (covering global new market expansion, license authorisations, regulatory engagement, corporate communication and public affairs), and Wealth and Trading, as well as the Chairperson and COO of Revolut Securities UAB. 

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Prior to Revolut, she served as COO for both crypto exchange Coinbase Ireland, and SaaS e-commerce technology company eDesk. She has sat on numerous boards and brings real world experience in successfully scaling operations globally. Deirdre has led Operations across a diverse range of tech organisations including biometrics, online gaming, e-commerce, fintech and crypto.

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Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation as the Head of Ecosystem Access, Devan held a number of commercial roles at prominent technology companies including Ripple, PayPal, and Xero. Passionate about all things Web3, Devan is focused making sure everyone has access to the Algorand ecosystem.

Doro Unger-Lee is the Head of University Programs at Algorand Foundation. Doro manages all university engagements at the Foundation. Together with the Algorand research team she launched the Algorand Centres of Excellence (ACE) programme. The ACE programme strives to make a long-lasting, positive impact in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

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Before joining Algorand Foundation Doro Unger-Lee was a senior programme manager at international top universities, including UC Berkeley, MIT and the University of Cambridge.

Emma is responsible for developing, executing and optimizing our marketing campaigns here at the Algorand Foundation. Emma’s efforts, in collaboration with the rest of our Foundation team, enables the Algorand Foundation to build and develop the global market for the Algorand blockchain and its associated ecosystem.

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Outside of work, between seeking out the best cup of coffee a city has to offer, Emma likes to keep active and continue to build her hybrid barre fitness community through events and online classes.

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Eric joined the Algorand Foundation in July 2022 after spending over 20 years at JPMorgan, where he served most recently as Managing Director in structured finance and head of Asset Backed Securities for Northern Europe. During his time there, he successfully led the completion of over 100 fundraising, strategic disposal, principal investments, or advisory assignments, with an aggregate value exceeding $500bn.

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At the Foundation, Eric reports to CEO, Staci Warden, and leads global initiatives and strategic partnerships in traditional capital markets, as well as decentralized finance. Teams working in capital markets solutions, DeFi, capital markets access and integrations, investor relations and office of the chief economist report to him.  He also chairs the Foundation's Investment Committee.  

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Eric lives in central London where, together with his wife Francesca, they are revitalizing Rochester Square, a formerly derelict plant nursery, as a socially inclusive community arts hub.

Evangelina is the Student Engagement Lead at Algorand Foundation. Evangelina manages the community of students globally and is responsible for the coordination of activities, relationships and initiatives related to universities and students.

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Evangelina is a lawyer specializing in finance and she has been actively working in the blockchain ecosystem since 2018 in multiple initiatives.

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Evangelina has developed her career as a Program Manager at the Blockchain Academy Chile of the Latamtech group, a Latinoamerican Startup. She was responsible for content creation, community development, and educational programs for developers and blockchain enthusiasts. She has written conceptual and technical content for the international media Be In Crypto. In addition, she has been part of projects advising on the development of the Alphaverse metaverse of the Atari company.

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Evangelina is from Argentina, is very energetic, loves electronic music and festivals. She lives close to the sea and spends time in nature, like trekking, swimming, running, and enjoys skating or going to the gym.

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Evert is deeply passionate about  technology.

Evert served as the CEO of a peruvian Software Factory and worked with 100+ projects across Latin America. Evert is now turning this experience in the region to grow the Algorand developer community in LATAM.

Prior to joining Algorand Foundation, Fabrice was a researcher at IBM Research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France in 2016.

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He was awarded the “Prix de thèse Gilles Kahn 2017,” a French excellence award for Ph.D. theses in computer science, and an honorary mention at the ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Research Award 2017. He has received two best paper awards at Eurocrypt 2018 and Eurocrypt 2021.

Fred's background in physics and aerospace engineering has allowed him to work at a some of the world's largest atmospheric radars and wind farms.

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Fred's a two-time startup founder and has worked on a microgravity microbiology experiment that flew aboard the International Space Station! Fred loves memes, physics, blockchain, rockets, telescopes, data, soccer, memes and Algorand.

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Grace is responsible for payment batch arrangement, reporting with analysis, and financial automation projects. Before the Algorand Foundation, Grace worked in the multinational manufacturing industry for 7 years with rich experience in financial reporting and projects in multi-national corporation environments.

Harpal started his career at PwC in both the UK and Cayman Islands but has spent the last 10+ years working in the asset management sector.

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His most recent role has been as Group CFO at Algebris Investments. He has helped grow boutique firms to multiples in size, redesigned finance departments and is very familiar working for global businesses with multi jurisdictional teams.

Howard is a Hong Kong qualified lawyer with over 10 years experience in cross-border merger and acquisition, general commercial, investment funds, virtual asset and payment regulations work. Currently, Howard is the sole Legal Counsel of Algorand Foundation leading and supervising all legal and corporate governance matters of Algorand Foundation. He is also responsible for establishing and implementing process and procedures in scaling up legal function of Algorand Foundation.

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Prior to joining Algorand Foundation, Howard has worked for multi-national financial institutions, technology companies and law firms throughout his career including Credit Suisse, Neuberger Berman, OKX and Baker McKenzie. Howard holds a Civil Engineering Bachelor Degree from The University of Warwick (UK) and a Juris Doctor Degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Hugo is a member of the Algorand Foundation research group and responsible for the Algorand Centers of Excellence (ACE) Program and other academic research and education initiatives. As a cryptographer, Hugo contributed to the cryptographic design of numerous Internet standards, including IPsec, IKE, and SSL/TLS. His SIGMA key exchange protocol serves as the cryptographic basis for both IKE and TLS 1.3 handshake. Hugo is a co-inventor of the HMAC message authentication algorithm and the designer of HKDF, the key derivation standard adopted by TLS 1.3, Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and more. He contributed to the theory and applications of pseudorandomness, zero-knowledge, key exchange, password authentication, threshold and proactive cryptosystems, and searchable encryption.

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Hugo is a Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR), the recipient of the 2015 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics, the 2018 Levchin Prize for the development of real-world cryptographic schemes, and multiple IBM awards including two corporate awards. Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation, he was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and an IBM Fellow at IBM Research.

Jack joins Algorand from another Layer-1 blockchain called Harmony. Over there, his responsibility spanned across both engineering as well as grants, partnerships, and ventures. Prior to that, he worked at both tech startups as well as the likes of Amazon, Apple, Adobe, and Shutterfly. As his career progressed across two decades, his hands-on coding contributions turned into running full-stack engineering teams and coordinating multi-million dollar projects.

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He was first introduced to Ethereum in early 2017, where he experimented and learned about the underlying premises of cryptography, mining pools and discovered other consensus protocols. A year later, he decided that the best way to dive in would be to run Proof-of-Stake validator nodes as a side hustle. That operation evolved into becoming a meaningful validator across five chains, including Cardano and Cosmos.

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Jack is passionate about driving growth and engagement for important causes, projects and movements that have the potential to genuinely move the dial. He fundamentally believes that humility, authenticity and integrity are the core pillars of building meaningful community engagement. 

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He studied Philosophy at Trinity College and later undertook postgraduate study in Psychology, he is also an electronic artist  ‘zenna’ and on the weekend you’ll find him paddling out at the nearest surf break. 

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Jack is operations manager of Algorand Foundation, supporting daily operations and team functions, managing major initiatives and projects, and working with various partners to build policies, processes and procedures. 

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Prior to joining Algorand Foundation, Jack worked for Accenture and AGS consulting for 11 years, and joined Blockchain industry in 2018, worked for Huobi Australia as Operations Manager and other two European exchanges as Head of Operations. 

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Jason is the Global Head of Community for Algorand Foundation. He held various positions in NEM Foundation as Vice President and Executive Committee, Board Secretary, Partnerships & Strategic Alliances, and as Expansion Director since 2017. Based in Singapore, he was a Board Director for Blockchain Australia and recognised as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list-maker. He was a FinTech startup co-founder, ecosystem builder and Wealth Management executive with Standard Chartered Bank, having worked with partners across 30+ cities throughout his career.

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Jason holds a Master of International Business and a Bachelor of Laws and has completed the Cambridge Judge Business School executive programs on strategy, innovation and creating high-performance teams. As a strong believer in social good, he regularly volunteers with non-profits and leadership empowerment programs. When Jason is not catching up with the latest breakthroughs in tech and life hacks, he enjoys trying out new cuisines and forming meaningful connections with people with unique perspectives and big ideas. He is blessed with a wife and two daughters who are still trying to convince him to get a puppy.

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Joana Lacerda is a globally recognized builder at the intersection of the Future of Art, Technology and Society Commissions. She has been exploring new ways of creating social justice and equal distribution of the future by supporting impact-driven tech companies.

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Throughout her career, Joana has led complex projects with strong creative components with a diverse range of Executive, Project Management and Operational functions, which are clearly illustrated by her remarkable successes.

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As an awarded activist for Human Rights, Joana has been invited to speak at the United Nations Headquarters NYC, is a high-level expert adviser for the European Commission on Artificial intelligence and is one of the coordinators of the European Climate Pact in Portugal. 

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Over the past few years, a lot of her enthusiasm has been directed toward the decentralized world of crypto and blockchain where she actively supports (mainly) female entrepreneurs in the cryptoart scene as a contribution to enhancing the collective power of the creative community to co-create an equitable world.

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Joana was recognized by Forbes as one of the brightest entrepreneurs, innovators and game-changers under the age of 30 who are transforming business as usual and changing the world in the Law and Policy category - Forbes 30 under 30.

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Joe graduated in 2020 with a computer engineering degree and went on to work in the defense industry right out of college. An interest in blockchain technology eventually led him to Algorand which he started to build on in his free time. After being an active member in the community, Joe was hired as part of the Foundation’s developer relations team. Joe is passionate about blockchain technology and believes it can make the world a better place, which is what he strives to accomplish with the Foundation.  

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In his free time he enjoys riding his motorcycle, spending time out in nature, playing basketball, and learning about psychology and philosophy. Having lived in Massachusetts his whole life and attending college in Boston, he is an avid fan of the Boston Bruins and enjoys watching all Boston sports teams.

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Johanna is passionate about startup and developer ecosystem building. She has held positions with Dogpatch Labs, Ireland’s leading startup hub as Innovation Partner Manager where she grew Google’s First Fridays For Startups initiative to be the largest startup engagement platform in Ireland. Previous to this as Europe's community development director for SoftLayer, an IBM company, where she focused on developing networks with leading accelerators, meet-ups, investors and entrepreneurs to identify high quality start-ups in all the major hubs in Europe in order to help them scale.

More recently her dev ecosystem building has taken her to Web3.0. As Irish Community Lead at ConsenSys, she founded  ‘Blockchain Ireland Week’ in 2019 which has scaled significantly. Currently as Developer Outreach Programs Lead for Algorand Foundation, she’s excited to nurture the next 10,000 developers building on Algorand through global programs. 

John Woods joined the Algorand Foundation as CTO in 2022. Prior to joining the leadership team he worked as Chief Architect of Cardano at IOHK. John has held roles leading software architecture and applied cryptography at a number of firms including Informatica and ConsenSys.

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Kimberley works in Ecosystem Funding at the Algorand Foundation where she manages funding related activities and business processes, as well as support with driving ecosystem growth. Having dipped in the space in 2018, she believes learning takes place best either getting your hands dirty or while educating others. Kimberley has written whitepapers and content articles for blockchain projects – hit her up if you need some help with yours. 

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Kristen is the finance manager of Algorand foundation. She has over 10 years financial experience in the multinational company, where she oversaw global sales and debt management with over 400 customers, assisted in cash flow forecasting, business KPI monitoring, and financial automation projects. Prior to that, Kristen worked in accounting firms, leading audit engagements and bookkeeping for multinational companies.

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Lillian is a dynamic and highly driven individual with over 30 years of experience as an Executive Assistant to Senior Management in the Technology, Financial Services, FMCG, Healthcare, Logistics, Aviation, Automobiles and Animal Feed industries. Lilian worked for MNCs with headquarters in Bahrain, Germany, UK and the USA.  

Maria Sabando is a community leader focused on developing the blockchain and mixed reality industries. She has been an educator for multiple blockchain protocols and a strategic advisor for early stage startups using blockchain since 2017. 

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In addition, she has been recognized for bringing impact into Web3 education through her pioneering work at the first Blockchain Center in Miami and at the multiple digital NFT galleries she has curated. She is a dedicated mentor and advisor to women pursuing to shape the future of blockchain. 

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Before jumping into the entrepreneurial ecosystem, Maria was a certified information systems auditor for prominent retail banks focusing on IT governance and IT security. 

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Maria Sabando, also known as Marumover, continues to explore the intersection between emerging technologies and creativity, and brings along the community for the experience.

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Massimo is Algorand Foundation's Chief Economist. He joined as Economic Advisor and Head of Economic Research when he was also serving as head of Rates and Credit Modelling, and Coordinator of Financial Model Research, at IMI bank of Intesa San Paolo Group. He is Professor of Finance and Blockchain at Bocconi University and of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies at Swiss Finance Institute, USI Lugano. He was an Advisor and Trainer at the World Bank for 7 years, at the Monetary Authority of Singapore for 2 years, and at several private and public financial institutions worldwide.  Since 2000 he published several quantitative finance papers on top journals and conference proceedings, and is author of the seminal books Understanding and Managing Model Risk, and Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, by Wiley Finance.

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Massimo holds an MsC in Economics and a PhD in Maths. His main areas of research have been interest rates, credit modelling and risk management, while since 2014 he has focused on the decentralization of markets through blockchain technology and incentives design. He was a board member of R3, the consortium of largest banks for blockchain application, and one of the first contributors to the CORDA platform. He authored the first articles that in 2015 and 2016 described blockchain decentralized financial products and derivatives with Ethereum test implementation. His work on blockchain has been featured on CoinDesk, Risk Magazine, Bitcoin Magazine, Harvard Business Review and has been quoted by CFTC and US Senate. Since July 4 2019, when he joined Algorand Foundation a few weeks after launch, Massimo devoted his efforts to the Algorand public blockchain, tokenomics, governance and decentralized finance.

Matt Keller directs the Impact and Inclusion vertical for the Algorand Foundation. In that capacity, Matt leads the design and development of strategies to increase the use of the Algorand Blockchain to achieve financial inclusion, social impact, and environmental sustainability.

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In previous lives, Matt was a lobbyist on Capitol Hill to advance the cause of campaign finance and voting rights reform in the United States; Executive Director of the $15 Million Global Learning XPRIZE sponsored by Elon Musk; Vice President at One Laptop per Child; Legal Counsel for the United Nations World Food Programme in Rome, Italy; Legislative Aide to a United States Senator; Legal Aid attorney for migrant farmworkers in Arizona; and a Jesuit Volunteer in Portland, Maine.

Mayra is Community Manager for the Algorand Foundation in Brazil. For over 14 years, she developed her career through Branding, PR, Comms and Marketing, working since 2018 with startups and innovative industries, such as cryptocurrency & blockchain.

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Previously working for 10 years in media (TV and Radio) in Brazil, Mayra covered the most important sports events, such as the World Cup and the Olympic Games. Passionate about this industry, she loves the idea of being part of projects that have relevant impact for the lives of amateurs and pro athletes all over the globe.

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Besides learning new things and cooking, Mayra enjoys swimming and traveling across different countries to compete in amateur tournaments. And she must bring her family with her to these adventures.

Michael is a CPA who began his career as an auditor at KPMG. He has a solid foundation in financial reporting, extensive experience in listed companies, MNCs, internal control and governance, system integration and business transformation. 

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Before the Algorand Foundation, Michael held leadership roles in the smartphone industry. Led teams in business transformation across the globe.

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Michele works in the Economy Team where he is responsible for the mathematical modeling, simulation and understanding of the relevant processes that define the blockchain ecosystem, such as Circulating Supply Dynamics, Price Dynamics and Governance Framework.

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After the Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Michele has visited as a researcher many Universities and Laboratories throughout Europe, doing research both in Theoretical Physics and Complex Systems, finally getting into Investment Banking as a Quant.

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As soon as he leaves the laptop, Michele throws himself into ultra marathons and ultra trails wandering for days and nights into the wild, but surely cannot survive on nothing but the dew of a single Ginko leaf.

Min is the Global Head of Ecosystem Growth where she is responsible for building partnerships, attracting and supporting web 3 verticals, and scaling community activations. She joins us from Blockchain.com, where she was leading partnerships. Previous to that, Min co-founded a venture-backed startup that built consumer facing apps and was the COO.

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Before jumping into the entrepreneurial world, Min held a number of roles across Partnerships, BD, and Strategy functions at technology and media companies. She started her career building software in financial services.

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Mohita’s law and public policy background, and passion to work on programs aimed at sustainable impact and inclusion make her a natural fit for the world’s greenest blockchain technology that is also committed to helping create a more inclusive economy.

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Her strong interest in the Web 3.0 world is just icing on the cake. A researcher at heart, Mohita’s research has been published in policy journals and she is often invited to share her findings at policy conferences. She puts her experience from large mission-driven organizations such as UNDP India, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP, and policy and legal analyst to an Indian Member of Parliament to work in coordinating and managing our top projects at AlgoBharat (Algorand Foundation’s India initiative) and crafting AlgoBharat’s message across social media platforms.

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She enjoys reading, solving crossword puzzles, playing with her parrot and cats and listening to Bollywood, Arabic and English music. 

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Ori holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel. Prior to joining the Algorand foundation he worked as a Backend developer in the Recommendations team at Dynamic Yield (which was recently acquired by Mastercard). I'm passionate about learning new technologies and expanding my horizons. I believe that blockchain technology is here to stay and will have a powerful impact on the world's economy, society and culture.

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Ori enjoys snowboarding, cooking and listening to music.

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Patrick is an OG AlgoFam community member from the very early days moving closer and closer until he ended up working with Algorand. With academic roots in mathematics and quantitative finance he worked in investment banking as team lead for the quant trading desk before joining.

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His passion is to automate things so humans can do what they are still superior to machines at. Namely, to discuss and think about how to improve processes and then automate these steps again. If sufficiently optimized you can then find him swimming, biking, running or sipping a negroni sbagliato – while talking about how elegant Algorand is of course.

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Piergiacomo is a crypto idealist, a true believer of the power of quality education and passionate about building strong communities. Piergiacomo holds a Bs in Economics from UCSC of Milan and a Master in Technology Management from UC Santa Barbara, where he was also the President of the Blockchain Club and won the 2020 edition of the New Venture Competition. Piergiacomo co-founded the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to accelerating education, research and adoption of web3. 

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In his spare time enjoys playing horde on Gears of War, Rebirth Island on Call of Duty or 2vs2 on FIFA; when he wants to take a break from screens, he likes to play Everdell with friends. Piergiacomo is also a huge AC Milan fan and likes to play soccer, basketball and to practice Krav Maga.

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Pranjal previously worked with Polygon, Consensys, Nethermind and Chainstack as a developer relations manager. Prior to joining Algorand Foundation, he has scaled and managed several Indian developer communities like Ethereum India, Hyperledger Tamil Nadu, Hashed student & founders community. Over the years he transitioned from communities to making educational content for blockchain developers. He has participated in 25+ hackathons as a mentor and judge where he mentored 10,000+ student developers. Apart from Blockchain, Pranjal has deep interest in Neural Networks(biomedical imaging) and Quantum computing. He has published multiple academic research papers on those topics in publications like Springer.

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Pranjal aims at serving the web3 developer community by empowering builders in the Asia region and beyond. His understanding of trends, projects and use cases has helped several developers to create impactful change in the web3 ecosystem.

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Rayan is the Algorand Foundation Community Manager responsible for the Middle East region.

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Before joining Algorand, Rayan took part in different entrepreneurial projects. He worked in multiple Esports startups across the MENA region, was a board member of the Arab Esports Federation, and started a mining farm.

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After seeing the ecological damages caused by the Proof of Work model, Rayan took the decision to terminate his mining activities and join Algorand to be part of an eco-friendly environment.

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Ronan joined the Algorand Foundation from LogMeIn, a SaaS technology company focused on the development of industry-leading UCaSS, IDaSS and CE products, where he held the roles of Digital Marketing Manager and Automation Marketing Manager.

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Ronan was responsible for LogMeIn's demand generation campaigns globally across search, display, re-marketing, and social. He moved into marketing automation and has experience using both IBM Silverpop and Marketo automation platforms. He was responsible for developing automation strategy and executing email marketing campaigns, delivering marketing qualified leads for sales.

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Ronan originally graduated with a B.A. in Business and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and also holds a Digital Marketing Certificate from Dublin City University.

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Ronan enjoys travelling, is a recently more optimistic Aston Villa supporter, loves comics and is privy to building Lego in his spare time.

Russ Fustino is a Developer Advocate on Blockchain for Algorand and is a Microsoft MVP reconnect in App Development. Russ has a passion for building blockchain solutions conveying relevant, current, and future software development. Russ is the recipient of INETA Lifetime Achievement Award and is a professional presenter.

Russ speaks all over to whoever will listen. He has written code that many have used. He’s been creating developer content for over two decades, coding for twice that and delivering webinars and videos for three decades. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, networks, publishes, learns and listens – usually not in that order.

Ryan Fox is Senior Developer Advocate at Algorand, where he guides developers building decentralized applications using smart contracts, smart assets and atomic transactions executed by the Algorand Virtual Machine. Fox has been contributing to open source blockchain projects since 2013.

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Prior to joining Algorand, Fox lead the protocol development team at BitShares, following 20 years as a founder and advisor to innovation teams in financial services, mortgage banking, and academia including Wells Fargo, Bell Banks, and the University of Sydney. Fox holds a B.B.A. in Management Computer Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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For fun, Fox enjoys hiking and skiing the Green Mountains of Vermont and is designing a micro-hydro power generation system.

Ryan has worked on numerous projects at the intersection of technology, policy, and operations. He started his career working on Android at Google and jumped to fintech startups from there, including leading platform partnerships at Ripple in the early days of the blockchain industry. Ryan is a graduate of the University of Oxford Master of Public Policy program and holds a BA in Classical Civilizations from the University of California, Berkeley.

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In his spare time Ryan lives vicariously through the emotional turmoil that comes with the daily grind of a season of San Francisco Giants baseball.

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Shai is a cryptographer and obtained his PhD from MIT in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Silvio Micali.

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Shai has been doing cryptographic research ever since, on topics such as homomorphic encryption, code obfuscation, and secure computation. Shai is a fellow and the vice president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, authored well over a hundred research articles, and is the recipient of the 2017 ACM-SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award and several best-paper awards.

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Shai is also the creator of HElib, the world's first open-source software library for homomorphic encryption. At the Algorand Foundation, Shai is part of the cryptography research group and also holds responsibilities for the governance platform.

Shamir Ozery joined the Algorand Foundation as Head of Web3 after nearly two and a half years as Algorand Inc's Marketing Programs Director. Passionate about growth, Shamir has spent the last 15 years learning, building, consulting and executing marketing campaigns with and for a wide variety of clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

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Shamir has served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Michigan and Northeastern University, teaching Entrepreneurial and Digital Marketing. A self proclaimed "NFT Junkie" - Shamir believes Web3 has the power to revolutionize the term ownership and global financial inclusion.

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Shane McGovern joined the Algorand Foundation as the Head of Platform Infrastructure in 2022. Prior to Algorand Foundation Shane has worked with traditional blue chip companies such as IBM before venturing into the Web3 world with Consensys.

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Shane is extremely keen on exercise and recently discovered Judo which has now become his obsession.

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Silvana's professional background is in business administration and high management.  

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Silvana's passion is to help people and working to make the world a better place for everybody.

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Silvana loves challenges so much and has a big family of 3 dogs and 3 kids, making her feel like she is always inside a marathon.

Simon joined Algorand Foundation in August 2022 after spending 25 years at 2 companies he had co-founded. He led the design and development of innovative solutions in the area of Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Machine Learning for various organizations in the areas of finance, manufacturing, pharma, healthcare, education, aviation and HoReCa. His aim was to simplify these esoteric technologies and help businesses, large and small, leverage these technologies to gain a competitive advantage.  

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Simon believes that most problems can be solved using math, algorithms, technology and creative arts. He is a firm believer that the fusion of Blockchains and AI will usher in a new era in the ways that communities are organized and problems solved.

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Prior to joining the Board of the Algorand Foundation, Staci ran the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on capital market development, crypto/blockchain solutions, and innovative finance to promote the sustainable development goals. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

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Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for cryptocurrencies and blockchain to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve inclusion and reduce global poverty. In addition to the Algorand Foundation, she sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, and the Energy for Growth Hub.  She also serves on the advisory committees of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee (STOA), the U.S. Financial Technology Association, and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.

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Steve is a Developer Advocate at Algorand, where he helps new and existing developers learn about the Algorand blockchain technology with a focus on TEAL and security, as well as contributing to the Developer Portal and various repositories on GitHub.

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Steve previously worked as a software development team lead at a payroll bureau where he designed and implemented a full pension processing solution during the introduction of automatic enrollment within the UK, along with a plethora of other payroll related software.

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Steve's experience in blockchain technology started in 2016 and he was formally an employee at Rand Labs before joining Algorand.

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Stéphane Barroso joined the Algorand Foundation as ARC Manager in 2022. 

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Before joining Algorand Foundation, he worked as Quality Analyst at Thales Digital Identity and Security. 

Stéphane has held essential roles in many industries, including banking and payments.

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He has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2017 and has been part of the Algorand ecosystem since 2021.

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Summer has been with the Algorand Foundation since late 2019, and is responsible for the local community building and go-to-market strategy in China and APAC in general. She enjoys the great vibes within the global Algorand ecosystem and has established a thriving community through hundreds of events and campaigns she has held in the past few years.

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Summer loves extreme sports such as bungee jumping and snowboarding. Skydiving is the next thing on her list. She is also a language enthusiast - next time you see her, remember to say hello in your mother tongue.

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Tal is a researcher whose general area focuses on cryptography and, more specifically, on secure multiparty computation, threshold cryptography, and proactive security. Her works have been instrumental in forming these areas.

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Tal obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, Israel in 1994. She joined the cryptography group at IBM Research in 1996 and managed it from 1997 to 2019. She has served as a member of the SIGACT Executive Board and a council member of the Computing Community Consortium. She has initiated and organizes the Women in Theory Workshop, a biennial event for graduate students in Theory of Computer Science.

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Tal is a Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the ACM and a fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR). She is the 2019 recipient of the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics and winner of the 2014 Anita Borg Women of Vision Award for Innovation. She has been listed by Forbes as one of the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech for 2018.

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Waseem is primarily responsible for the growth and management of the UK Community at the Algorand Foundation. He is a super networker that enjoys socialising, building relations, supporting and onboarding new people to the community. He is passionate about making an impact in the blockchain space.

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Waseem is devoted to doing social good and making a difference to communities. He is involved with a social enterprise that aims to help impoverished and water deprived communities in Pakistan.

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Waseem loves travelling, experiencing different cultures and trying new cuisines. He loves his food, fortunately he burns off the calories by playing football every week and going to the gym. Waseem can speak five languages, with one of them being Italian! Hence his love for cars and coffee. 

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Xiu is responsible for social communication and digital marketing in the APAC region. She had been in blockchain marketing for 5 years and helped lots of projects developing growth strategy and market influence in Asia. 

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