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Kydo is a protocol researcher at Eigen Labs and the founder of Native Labs. Previously, he was a delegate at Uniswap DAO serving on its inaugural committee and the round owner for Gitcoin's first DeSci round.. He received his Master's degree from Stanford Medicine under Professor Dan Boneh. His thesis was on decentralized scientific funding mechanisms. He angel invests in vertical-defining projects with a strong emphasis at the infrastructure level. Besides providing capital, he enjoys working with founders navigating (technical) narratives and GTM.
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Teddy Knox
Teddy Knox is a Senior Research Engineer at EigenLayer and the Head of Product for EigenDA. Previously, he served as the Head of Engineering at Duality and as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn.
Alan Curtis
Alan Curtis is COO of EigenLayer and was previously CEO of Rio Network, Head of PlatformBlockchain Capital, CTO of Core Scientific, and CEO of RADAR.
Frederick Allen
Frederick Allen is Director of Business Development at EigenLayer and was previously Head of BD at Rio Network and Head of Staking Sales at Coinbase. He graduated from Monash University in Australia.
Gajesh Naik
Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.
Caleb Tebbe
Caleb Tebbe is currently Director of Engineering at EigenLayer and was previously a Principal Research Engineer at Blockchain Capital, a development engineer at Coinbase, and a CTO at Radar.
Brianna Montgomery
Brianna Montgomery is currently VP of Growth at EigenLayer and previously served as Business Lead at ConsenSys Diligence.
Ishaan Hiranandani
Ishaan Hiranandani is Strategy Lead at EigenLayer and was previously a product manager at jpmorgan Chase andan investor in Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
Brandon Curtis
Brandon Curtis is Director of eRsearch at EigenLayer and co-founder of Rio Network, and previously served as Senior Vice President of research operations at Core Scientific and Director of research and analysis at Radar.
Clayton Menzel
Clayton Menzel is now Head of Business Development at Babylon and was previously Head of Strategy at Rio Network, Head of Strategy at Figment and Head of communities at YEN.io and CariClub.
Jian Xiao
Jian Xiao is the Principal Engineer at EigenLayer.Jian will be leading the EigenDA project - a hyperscale data availability (DA) solution for zero knowledge (ZK) systems that is built on top of EigenLayer. Jian was previously a Staff Software Engineer at Google for 9+ years where he worked on the Core Data Infra platform that powers Google Search, Ads, and YouTube. He was recently with the Ray.io team at Anyscale AI building a scalable distributed computing framework for AI/ML data processing workloads. Jian Xiao graduated from Guangzhou University and holds a master's degree from Peking University.