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Dave Bean is former Chief Operating Officer of Gear and was previously business development manager at Coinbase and Head of business development at Earn.com.
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John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Sid Ramesh
Sid Ramesh is a product manager at Coinbase and previously worked as a protocol specialist at Dharma Labs. Sid Ramesh was the CEO and Founder at Chainguru, a small consultancy that specializes in education, research and development for making Blockchains accessible to businesses and consumers. He’s a resident expert on Enterprise Blockchains and consensus protocols.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Petr Volynskiy
Petr Volynskiy is the CTO of Gear and has extensive experience in product development, product management and technical leadership in multiple areas.
Alexander Bugorkov
Alexander Bugorkov, co-founder and head of development at Gear, has extensive experience working with successful tech companies such as Lyft, New Relic, and Spotify.
Katherine Minarik
Katherine Minarik is chief legal officer at Uniswap, and previously she was vice President of Legal at Coinbase. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jack Kearney
Jack Kearney is the co-founder of Turnkey and previously served as CTO of Polychain. He graduated from Oberlin College.