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W. Sean Ford is the former Chief Operating Officer of Algorand and was a member of the Advisory Board at PlanetWatch. He has extensive experience in senior operations and IPO management across various industries, including retail, media and entertainment, enterprise software startups, management and transformation of large and medium-sized global technology organizations, data integration, e-commerce platforms, and more. He possesses specialized expertise in areas such as marketing, corporate strategy, organizational design, human resources, product management and development, mergers and acquisitions integration, channel management, and driving public listings.
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Rochelle Guillou
Rochelle Guillou is Head of Content marketing at XMTP and was previously a market researcher at Flipside Crypto and community Project manager at Algorand.
Shumo Chu
Shumo Chu is the founder of NEBRA, co-founder of Manta Network. He graudated as a PhD from University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering.
Fangfang Chen
Fangfang Chen is Head of Asia Pacific at Bank of New York Mellon and former Head of Operations, Algorand Foundation. Fangfang holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing.
Silvio Micali
Silvio Micali received his Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Rome and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1983, he has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. His research interests include cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudo-random generation, Byzantine agreement, secure protocols, mechanism design, and distributed ledgers. Silvio has been awarded the Turing Award (in computer science), the G?del Prize (in theoretical computer science), and the RSA Prize (in cryptography). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academia dei Lincei. He is also the founder of Algorand LLC, a new foundational blockchain developed from scratch on totally new principles which simultaneously guarantees true decentralization, scalability, and security.
Jacopo Cecchi
Jacopo Cecchi currently serves as COO of Algorand Inc. In this role he is responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations, strategic oversight, company liaison for portfolio investments, and Board relations. Prior to his appointment as COO, Jacopo served as Chief of Staff to Algorand’s Founder, Silvio Micali. Before joining Algorand, Jacopo served as the VP of Marketing at myInvenio, a process mining software company dedicated to optimizing organizational processes through data-driven insights that was successfully acquired by IBM in 2021. Jacopo earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) Business School.
Georgios Vlachos
Georgios Vlachos is Co-Founder of Axelar, Founding Team Member of Algorand; responsible for designing and developing the consensus; Head of Mathematics; Gold Medal Winner at the International Math Olympiad; BSc and MS Eng. from MIT.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Sean Lee
Sean Lee is the Co-Founder of the Odsy Network. Previously, he was the ex-CEO of the Algorand Foundation. His educational experience includes the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Marc Vanlerberghe
Marc Vanlerberghe is the chief marketing officer of Algorand and previously served as senior marketing director at Google. He graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Naveed Ihsanullah
Naveed Ihsanullah is the founder and CTO of Cadena and was previously Vice President of Engineering Research at Algorand.