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Stone Gettings is the Head of Growth at Mira and previously was Kadena's Partner and Ecosystem Funding Manager. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Arizona's Eller School of Management.
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Stuart Popejoy
Stuart Popejoy is the Founder and CEO of Kadena, with 15 years of experience in building trading systems and exchange backbones for the financial industry. He is also a seasoned musician and composer working in the NYC area. Before co-founding Kadena, Stuart led engineering in the JP Morgan Blockchain Center of Excellence, where he helped develop the open-source blockchain Juno. He is the author and lead developer of the open-source Pact programming language, for fast and safe smart contracts offering formal verification support. In the New York area, Stuart leads and collaborates in numerous acclaimed musical projects, including Sugarlife, Bassoon and Day So Far. He is an active member of the creative/new music scene, playing electric bass and keyboards. Stuart has premiered and released compositions developed using novel algorithmic techniques written in Haskell. He is also a professional recording and mastering engineer. Stuart holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Quartz, as well as other publications.
Tony Pham
Tony Pham is Vice President of marketing at SuperLayer. Previously, he was Head of Marketing at Kadena, Head of Marketing at TrustToken, and Vice President at Life360. He graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.
Will Martino
Will Martino is the Founder and CEO of Kadena, a former JPM and SEC alumnus, and a specialist in distributed systems and formal verification. He was the Lead Engineer for Juno, JP Morgan's blockchain prototype, and was the Tech Lead for the SEC's Cryptocurrency Steering Committee and the Quantitative Analytics Unit.
John Wiegley
John Wiegley is Kadena's Chief Technology Officer and previously served as Chief engineer at DFINITY. He is a graduate of George Mason University.
Andy Tang
Andy Tang is Kadena's head of innovation and was previously a software engineer at CodeCapi. He graduated from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.
Ryan Levy
Ryan Levy is Head of Business Development at Moonbeam, co-founder of DOTTZ, and previously Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Kadena. He graduated from Allenby College.
Jacquin Mininger
Jacquin Mininger is the co-founder of Taralli Labs and previously was a software engineer at Kadena. He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Full Stack College.
Emily Pillmore
Emily Pillmore is the head of core engineering at Kadena and previously served as Chief Technology Officer at the Haskell Foundation. She graduated from the University of Utah.
Annelise Osborne
Annelise Osborne is Kadena's Chief Commercial Officer and was previously Head of Organization at Arca.
Ninad Naik
Ninad Naik is Mira's chief Product Officer, and previously served as Director of product management at Uber. Naik also worked at Amazon and Barclays Investment Bank. Ninad holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.