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David Dias is a Peer-to-Peer Software Engineer at Protocol Labs, creating IPFS and Filecoin. He holds an M.Sc. in Network Engineering and is a Lecturer at T¨¦cnico Lisboa
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Carl Cervone
Carl is the co-founder of Kariba Labs. Kariba's first product is Open Source Observer, an analytics platform that helps foundations and ecosystem funds allocate funding to open source projects. He is also an active Gitcoin Steward and Cup of Excellence board member. Carl is most passionate about using data to improve governance and public goods funding.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah is the founder and CEO of Radius and was previously Head of Product at Protocol Labs. She holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Catrina Wang
Catrina Wang is an investment partner at Portal Ventures and head of Penn Blockchain's alumni network and conferences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Molly Mackinlay
Molly Mackinlay is the Engineering & Research Lead at Protocol Labs and was previously a product manager at Google. She graduated from Stanford University.
Rodrigo Sottomayor
Rodrigo Sottomayor is PrivateAI's Chief of staff and head of ecosystem and previously served as senior Chief Recruiter at Protocol Labs. He graduated from European universities and Harvard Business School in the United States.
Guy Wuollet
Guy Wuollet is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Guy focuses on infrastructure and application layer investments across crypto. He believes decentralized networks can better align incentives on the Internet and enable the future of commerce and communication. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on independent research in concert with Protocol Labs. His work focused on building decentralized networking protocols and upgrading Internet infrastructure. Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he rowed on the Varsity Crew team.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet is the Founder and CEO, and the inventor of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). He is also the Founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
João Fiadeiro
João Fiadeiro is the Chief Product Officer of Catena Labs and previously worked at Jump Crypto and Protocol Labs. He holds a Master's degree in Internet Social Sciences from the University of Oxford.
Liz Chien
Liz Chien previously served as Global Head of Tax at Protocol Labs and Vice President of Global Tax at Ripple. Liz is the former Asia-Pacific Head of Tax for Google and was a Tax Director at Softbank Group International. Prior to Google, she was an attorney with the global law firm of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Palo Alto, California, where she advised technology companies on international tax planning and structuring. Liz received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.