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Justin Kilpatrick is the Co-Founder and CTO at Althea.net. He takes ideas from research papers to scalable, reliable products.
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Kristi Põldsam
Kristi Poldsam is co-founder of Sommelier Finance, iqlusion and Seven Seas Capital. Before beginning her journey as a blochcain founder, she built out a decade long career in the world of traditional finance, serving as a Merril Lynch analyst, Investment Banker at Rodman & Renshaw and as a Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald. She is a classically trained economist, earning a degree at Harvard before pursuing her Masters in computer science. Kristi is passionate about enabling more people around the world to leverage the expertise of finance professionals while also benefiting from the transparency and self-custody that blockchains allow. She's also keen on making decentralized finance about more than just crypto - to move beyond the experimental phase of crypto-native impact towards the real world impact, bringing real-world assets onto these new financial rails.
Kevin Kennis
Kevin Kennis is Co-Founder and Engineer at Sommelier. He has been working in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space for four years and specializes in markets and building client-side crypto tools.
Federico Kunze Küllmer
Federico Kunze K¨¹llmer is Co-Founder and Director of Evmos, and he is also Co-Founder of Sommelier Protocol
Josh Kessler
Josh Kessler is Head of Growth at Veda and previously Head of Business Development at Sommelier. He is an MBA from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University.
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.
Joseph Terrigno
Joseph Terrigno is the co-founder of Veda and the co-founder and Chief Technology officer of Seven Seas Capital. He graduated from Columbia University and Fordham University.
Sunand Raghupathi
Sunand Raghupathi, co-founder and CEO of Seven Seas Capital, was previously head of research and development at Sommelier. He graduated from Fordham College and Columbia University.
Stephanie Vaughan
Stephanie Vaughan is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Veda and the co-founder and Managing Partner of Seven Seas Capital. Previously, she was the Head of Operations at Sommelier. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Unique Divine
Unique is co-founder and Lead Software Engineer at Nibiru Chain, a layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos. Prior to Nibiru, he was part of the Sommelier Protocol team, where he was able to leverage his skills in Golang, Cosmos SDK, Python, Solidity, TypeScript, and Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he was a data scientist at IBM. Unique studied at Columbia University and has a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics.
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.