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Erik Ashdown, co-founder of a stealth company, was previously head of ecosystem at Covalent and Director of business development at Boast Capital. He is a graduate of Canada's Concordia University and Vancouver Film School.
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Brandon Rochon
Brandon Rochon is the former chief data scientist at Covalent. Driven by simple curiosity, he is focused on pushing out useful insights and improving data accessibility across DeFi. His background is mechanical engineering and finance, having previously worked as a field engineer on industrial construction projects in northern Canada until switching gears into academic research on the topics of entrepreneurship and FinTech.
Ganesh Swami
The CEO and founder of CovalentHQ.com, Ganesh Swami is an expert in blockchain, data, SQL, analytics, and startups. With a personal blog at iamganesh.com, Ganesh has entrepreneurship running deep in his blood. He founded a software consultancy while still in high school, founded the Simon Fraser Linux user group, and built products that have been featured on national television. Ganesh has been in the data space for over 10 years and is well-versed in collecting, storing, searching, and packaging data. He currently leads Covalent, a brand new, venture-backed company dedicated to bridging centralized databases with distributed ledger technologies (blockchains.) Ganesh is passionate about using technology to make the world a better place and has specialties in product development, business development, public speaking, open source, technical marketing, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.
Levi Aul
Levi Aul is the Chief Technology Officer at Covalent, a blockchain analytics platform. Prior to this role, he was a Systems Engineer at Walter.ai and the Chief Technology Officer at Bex.io. He also founded Peripia, a real-time messaging platform. Levi has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science from Langara College. He has extensive experience in developing and maintaining ETL pipelines and data architectures, distributed-systems engineering, and building horizontally-scalable real-time messaging architectures.
Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an investor at Social Graph Ventures. He was previously Head of Marketing and Head of Growth at Covalent.
Jay Pozo
Jay Pozo is the head of product at Covalent and was previously the CTO of Predicative. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and Capilano University in Canada.
Yarco Hayduk
Yarco Hayduk is the Partner at Pragma Ventures . Formerly Senior Blockchain Engineer at Covalent, Blockchain Researcher at Hex Capital. Yarco has in-depth understanding of innovative technologies and trends in the cryptocurrency space. His academic experience includes working as a post-doc at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the area of Distributed Systems and Scalable Data Processing. He completed his PhD program at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, which focused on Distributed Systems, Concurrency and Transactional Memory. During his PhD studies, Yarco published research papers in the area of concurrent processing of book orders, and has deep understanding of exchange matching engines.