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Alex Shevchenko is the CEO of Aurora Labs and the creator of the Exonum Platform. He is a Ukrainian and has been a Blockchain enthusiast since 2015.
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Kendall Cole
Kendall Cole is currently Head of Product at NEAR. Previously, he was responsible for the Kauri.io project at ConsenSys, and was also involved in the founding of OilFront, EntryWire and other projects.
Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.
Ian Petras
Ian Petras is the head of marketing at Aurora Labs and previously was a senior marketing executive at Ledger. He is a graduate of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Uppsala University in Sweden and Stockholm School of Economics.
Nicolás Poggi
Nicolas Poggi is a CMO at the Interchain Foundation and previously he was a CMO at Fleek and a senior Developer Marketing Manager at NEAR Protocol. He graduated from the University of Palermo.
Anton Bukov
Anton Bukov is the co-founder of the 1inch Network. He has been involved in software development since 2002 and in DeFi since 2017. Prior to 1inch, he contributed to several crypto projects, including MultiToken, NEAR, and Synthetix.
Marieke Flament
Marieke Flament was previously CEO of Near Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Circle. He holds a master's degree in information security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Yulian
Yulian was previously Chief of Staff at NEAR Protocol and Chief Operating Officer at Aurora.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an investor at Social Graph Ventures. He was previously Head of Marketing and Head of Growth at Covalent.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.