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Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Gajesh Naik
Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.
Yelena Cavanaugh
Yelena Cavanaugh is general counsel of the Solana Foundation and previously worked at Cooley LLP. He is a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
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.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is CEO of Borderless and previously was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fortress Trust Company and Chief Product Officer of Prime Trust. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Peter Piekarczyk
Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jarry Xiao
Jarry Xiao is a co-founder of Phoenix and was previously an engineer at Solana and Citadel Securities. He graduated from the School of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kevin Ricoy
Kevin Ricoy is the founder of Allmight and was previously Solana's Community Relations Manager and Head of Growth at Kin.