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Reuben Yap is Co-Founder & Project Steward at Firo. Reuben Yap has led the project in its overall strategy, development goals and research efforts for the past few years. He now remains part of the core team managing the core team's development and research teams. Joining the team shortly after its inception, he has played a pivotal role in shaping Firo to where it is today. Reuben has been a vocal advocate of online and financial privacy having founded one of SE Asia's earliest VPN services to combat his country's censorship and is a well respected speaker on the topic, with featured interviews and commentary in BBC, Nasdaq Tradetalks, Forbes, Coindesk, Reuters and Cheddar News, among others. Prior to joining Firo, Reuben was a partner at a law firm with over ten years of practicing experience having specialized in doing advisory work in legal and institutional frameworks.
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Sam Williams
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George
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