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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.
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Mikko Ikola
Mikko Ikola is Head of Marketing at Veridise, having previously been Head of Communications at Taiko and CMO at t2.world. He graduated from Aalto University and Fudan University.
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.
Matthew Finestone
Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder at Taiko. He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.
Ruijia Ke
Ruijia Ke is the lead of communications at Taiko Labs and previously worked at UBS. She graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
Magic Pan
Magic Pan is Loopring's vice president of product and operations. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Mamy Ratsimbazafy is a cryptography engineer at Lita, former chief scientist at Taiko, former engineer at Status, and author of the Nim deep learning language framework.
Daniel Wang
Daniel Wang is the founder of Taiko and Loopring. He was formerly a Google Tech Lead, co-founder and VP of Yunrang Technology, senior engineering director at JD.com, co-founder and CEO of Coinport Exchange, co-founder and VP of Hygene Online, and senior director and blockchain researcher of Zhongan Technology.
Adam Browman
Adam Browman is Head of Business development at Superseed and was previously Head of Growth at Loopring. He graduated from Concordia University in Canada.
Ken Arthur Bassig
Ken Arthur Bassig is Taiko's DeFi head. Before that he was head of venture & Research at Magnus capital. Ken Arthur Bassig has over 7 years of financial markets experience with a focus on digital assets, equities, derivatives, private equity, high frequency trading and market making.
Joaquin Mendes Izard
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.