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Claudia L. is the COO of Bitfinex and Tether.
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Jarindr Thitadilaka
Jarindr Thitadilaka is the Co-Founder of GuildFi. He has seven years of experience in web3 and more than ten years of engineering, and is now working full-time in web3 gaming and entertainment.
Philip Gradwell
Philip Gradwell is Head of Economics at Tether and previously Chief Economist at Chainalysis, where he led data-driven research and development on blockchain economics. Previously, he led Vivid Economics' Energy and Climate Change Economics Advisory team.
Varun Satyam
Varun Satyam is the Co-Founder of Davos Protocol. Previously, he co-founded Strip Finance and worked as a UI/UX designer with ANKR, Bitfinex, and the Tether Foundation on Lightning Network solutions. His core expertise lies in product and UI/UX design. He is a computer science graduate and can also code in Rust and Solidity.
Kasper Rasmussen
Kasper Rasmussen is the Chief Marketing Officer of Lido Finance and previously the Director of Marketing at Bitfinex. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Business from Maastricht University.
Paolo Ardoino
Paolo Ardoino is CTO at Bitfinex and Tether, a computer scientist, a geek, an innovator, and a creative.
Enrico Rubboli
Enrico Rubboli is Core Engineer at Mintlayer. He comes with 17 years of experience in Software Development. He studied telecommunication in Italy and worked in various teams over the years like Bitfinex or Digital Science/ Macmillan Science and Education in London, TUI Group in Italy and ELC Technology in the States. He's an agile mentor that loves designing things and architectures. He's passionate about free software, new technologies and obviously Bitcoin.
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising, and investing in disruptive businesses. He is credited with pioneering the market for digital currency and has raised more than $5 billion for companies he has founded. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin (first ICO). Block.one was created in 2017 and has sold over $4 billion tokens in the EOS crowdsale, making it the largest ever. Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain technology companies. Pierce led the firm through the first ICO of a venture fund, which created the first security token. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector across its four funds and was named the most active FinTech Venture Fund by Pitchbook. Tether is the first stable coin and asset-backed token. Pierce is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale. He is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world’s leading digital currency marketplace for games, with annual sales exceeding $1 billion and investors such as Goldman Sachs, which was sold in 2016 for more than $100 million. Pierce founded ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012. He founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues exceeding $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Pierce is also a co-founder of D10e, GoCoin, Blade Payments, Five Delta (sold NASDAQ: SRAX), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Evertune, GamesTV, and DEN. He also advises Airswap, Bancor, BitGo, BitGuild, BlockV, Bloq, DNA, Element Group, Metronome, Shyft, and tZERO.
Craig Sellars
Craig Sellars is the Co-Founder of Tether, the world's most widely traded cryptocurrency, and is now acting as an informal advisor since his departure in 2016. He also co-founded vAtomic Systems with Eric Pulier in 2015 and is the Chief Technologist of Bitcoin's Omni Layer.
Jean-Louis van der Velde
Jean-Louis van der Velde co-founded Bitfinex in 2013 and serves as its CEO. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Tether (USDT).
Giancarlo Devasini
Giancarlo Devasini is the Chief Financial Officer of Bitfinex and Tether.