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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.
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Arpit Sharma
Arpit Sharma is the Managing Director, Middle East, India, South East Asia at NEAR Foundation. Presively he was the Vice President, Global Enterprises, APAC at Polygon Technology.
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.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
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.
Simon Wu
Simon Wu is the co-founder of Meex and formerly served as the chief security officer of Huobi.
Brecht Devos
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.
Matthew Finestone
Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder at Taiko. He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.
Mudit Gupta
Mudit Gupta is Chief Information Security Officer at Polygon, Technology Partner at Delta Blockchain Fund, and previously a blockchain engineer at Polymath Network. He has done web development, systems programming and 2d games development in the past. Currently, he is mainly working with public blockchains like Ethereum. His expertise lies in smart contract development using Solidity and core blockchain development using Rust.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.
Colin Butler
Colin Butler is the Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Technology. He has 18 years of experience in the financial markets, including institutional equity sales and trading, private wealth management, and alternatives marketing.