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David Felkai is the Head Of Business Development at Ignite.
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Awa Sun Yin
Awa Sun Yin is the co-founder of Anoma & Namada and was previously the co-founder of Cryptium Labs. He has served as a data scientist and software engineer at Chanialysis, a Cosmos researcher, and a technical grant manager at the Ethereum Community Fund. Her main research areas are blockchain technology, cryptography for privacy and scalability of consensus algorithms, security in distributed and decentralized systems, and hardware, especially Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
Adrian Brink
Adrian Brink is a Co-Founder of Cryptium Labs & Anoma Network.He is also a Web3 Foundation developer, Cosmos and Tendermint core developer.
Shelley Chang
Shelley Chang is a Osmosis contributor and was previously Head of Operations at Cosmos and Tendermint.
Brian Fabian Crain
Brian Fabian Crain is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chorus One, working on getting Cosmos Network. Co-host Epicenter podcast Epicenter, Founder Blockchain Meetup Berlin. Brian Fabian Crain is a Berlin-based economist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-host of the blockchain podcast Epicenter (250+ episodes, 4m+ downloads), founder and organizer of Blockchain Meetup Berlin. He is also co-founder & CEO of Chorus One. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and cognitive science from the University of Chicago, London School of Economics and University College London.
Christopher Goes
Christopher Goes is co-founder of Anoma and co-founder of Cryptium Labs. He worked in the Tendermint.
Gautier Marin-Dagannaud
Gautier Marin-Dagannaud was previously Director of Product at Tendermint, where he helped develop Tendermint's governance, crypto economics, game theory and other businesses.
Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder at Sommelier. He has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus systems. Additionally, he is an advisor to the Cosmos project, as well as several other investment funds and startups in the space.
Ethan Buchman
Ethan Buchman is CEO of Informal Systems and formerly CTO of Tendermint. Ethan Buchman is an Internet Biophysicist. With background in cell biology, neuroscience, mathematics, machine learning, and distributed computing, his goal is to build tools that encourage humans to self-organize into functional systems, much like molecules managed to self-organize into Life.
Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin is Co-Founder of Sommelier and Founder at Strangelove. He has been working in the Cosmos ecosystem since 2018, first becoming Director of Product at Tendermint, the company that built the consensus protocol that underpins inter-blockchain communications in Cosmos. He then moved on to become VP of Product at Akash Network. Jack has been developing blockchain projects since 2017, when he joined the engineering team of Blockstack. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University.
Jae Kwon
Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and co-founder of Tendermint, as well as the President of the Interchain Foundation. After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, he worked as a professional developer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa and Yelp, where he led the mobile application development team. He also co-founded iDoneThis, a productivity service. Jae has worked on numerous open-source projects, such as a CoffeeScript compiler/interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io, and a cryptocurrency exchange. These projects were inspired by the cryptopunk hacker ethos, which ultimately led to his current work with Tendermint. In 2014, Jae created the Tendermint project, and he, along with Ethan Buchman and Zarko Milosevic, further refined the Tendermint consensus algorithm and implementation, with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the costs and drawbacks of proof-of-work mining. His mission is to make this technology more accessible, in order to accelerate the adoption of decentralized ledger technology.