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Isha Varshney is the Head of DeFi at Celo.
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Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
Claire Belmont
Claire Belmont is a principal at Stardust and former product Partner at Celo. She is a security engineer by training and was previously a co-founder of Enigma. Prior to Celo, he was a product manager at Google.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Sophia Dew
Sophia Dew is the head of Developer Relations at Celo and was previously the Technical Lead at Gitcoin. He graduated from Stanford University.
Xochitl Cazador
Xochitl Cazador is Optimism's Chief of staff and was previously Chief Ecosystem Development Officer at Celo and Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Cisco. She is good at strategy and operations, and is passionate about social impact and blockchain. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jelena Djuric
Jelena Djuric is the Co-Founder & CEO of Noble. She is the Former Community Manager of DFINITY. Jelena Djuric graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Pranay Mohan
Pranay Mohan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomad. Ex-Product Manager at Celo, and Ex-Developer Relations at 0(1) Labs.
Kobi Gurkan
Kobi Gurkan is the Founding Head of Research at Geometry, where he focuses on applied cryptography, security, and experimental projects. He is also the Head of Research at ZKhack and ZKvalidator. Kobi obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
Alex Witt
Alex Witt is a general Partner at Verda Ventures and was previously CFO of Celo, co-founder and CFO of SWFT Blockchain, and an analyst at Goldman Sachs. He holds a master's degree in finance from Tsinghua University.
Kothari Medha
Kothari Medha is responsible for wallet products at Uniswap and was previously an investment research partner at Variant and a software engineer at Celo.