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Bjorn Wagner is the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies.
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William Pankiewicz
William Pankiewicz is the Master of Validators at Parity Technologies. He was formerly the Lead Blockchain Engineer at Binance, Founder and CEO at Ahania Capital, and Full Stack Blockchain Engineer at AugmentPartners Limited.
James Cliff
James Cliff is the COO of Parity Technologies. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Jia Yaoqi
Jia Yaoqi is the Founder and CEO of AltLayer. He is also the Co-founder and Advisor of Zilliqa. Previously, he led the development and advocacy of technologies such as Substrate and Polkadot, and grew the developer community. Jia Yaoqi graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Shawn Tabrizi
Shawn Tabrizi is a full-time engineer living in Berlin. I was born and raised in the heart of the Bay Area, a breeding pool of technology and innovation. At the age of 13, I began programming, attempting to learn how to hack my PlayStation Portable so I could play free games. Through the PSP hacking community, I discovered the immense potential of computers, programming, and the internet. I graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in Physics and Mathematics. Shortly afterwards, I joined Microsoft to work on Microsoft Azure, their cloud computing services. Recently, I joined Parity Technologies as a Core Developer, working on blockchain infrastructure and the future of decentralization on the web.
Kirill Pimenov
Kirill Pimenov is a co-founder of Kampela and was previously Head of Security at Parity Technologies, where he supervises audits, manages bug bounties, and advances Parity’s secure development practices. He previously developed nontrivial application backends as a CTO of his own startup, and worked on continuously delivering web-facing services for Suse Linux.
Jutta Steiner
Jutta Steiner was the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies. Previously, she was head of security at the Ethereum Foundation, where she oversaw security testing and integration prior to the launch of the Blockchain in 2015.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.
Urban Osvald
Urban Osvald is the head of Operations at Wormhole, having previously been the Developer Relations and Engagement Team Lead at Parity Technologies, and he also served as a growth manager at the Web3 Foundation. He is a graduate of Hult International Business School and the University of Ljubljana.
Nikolay Volf
Nikolay Volf is Founder and CEO at Gear Technologies Inc. Formerly, Core Developer at Parity Technologies. Anarchist. Atheist. Algebraist. Over 20 years of deep technology experience: Rust pioneer, a core developer of Parity Ethereum Client, PolkaDot.
Jesse Abramowitz
Jesse Abramowitz is Lead Software and Protocol Engineer at Entropy. Formerly Blockchain Developer at BlockX Labs. Polkadot Lead Blockchain and Backend Developer at FutureSwap, Ambassador experienced in multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Aion and more. Experience building private proof of authority blockchain networks. Javascript, React, NodeJs backend and frontend experience. College Professor at George Brown College teaching blockchain fundamentals, smart contract security, DApps and more.