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Esteban Ordano is the founder of Decentraland and currently serves as a consultant for the project. Previously, he co-founded Zeppelin Solutions and created Streamium, the first app to implement payment channels, a technology crucial for scaling blockchain payments. As a former software engineer at BitPay, he co-created the leading Bitcoin infrastructure library, known as Bitcore. He was also part of the teams behind Copay (a bitcoin wallet), Insight (a bitcoin blockchain API), and Poet (a blockchain-based publication tool).
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Justin Edwards
Justin Edwards is the Head of Gaming at Telos. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer at Decentraland.
Christopher Jeffrey
Christopher Jeffrey is CTO & Engineer at Purse. Formerly, Software Engineer at GoDaddy and BitPay.
Sonny Singh
Sonny Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Beluga. He previously served as the chief commercial officer of BitPay from 2014 to 2021.
Stephen Pair
Stephen Pair is the co-founder and CEO of Bitpay, a Bitcoin merchant service. Prior to founding Bitpay, he was a senior development engineer at IBM. Widely regarded as an expert in cryptography, Pair also holds two patents related to streaming analytics.
Ari Meilich
Ari Meilich is the founder and former CEO of Decentraland. He went on to found Big Time Studios, an NFT game studio, and is now the CEO of Open Loot, a gaming platform.
Michelle Lai
MICHELLE LAI has been working in cryptocurrency full-time since 2018 and is passionate about technology, investing and problem solving. She is a member of the board of Directors of Electric Coin Co., and was previously Director of BitPay Asia Pacific and Head of Business Development for Anchorage. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ignacio Mazzara
José Ignacio Mazzara, Engineer Mananger at Decentraland, Software engineer, entrepreneur, product-oriented, who enjoy building cool solutions improving people lives.
Tim Byun
Tim Byun is the former Global Government Relations Officer of OKX and was previously CEO of Okcoin and Chief Compliance Officer of BitPay. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Agustin Mendez
Agustin Mendez was previously a Engineer at Muun and Technical Lead at Decentraland. in 2016, he joined MuleSoft as a Software Engineer, where he developed a number of in-house tool prototypes and parts of the DataWeave programming language, and in 2018, he joined Decentraland as a Technical Lead.
Tony Gallippi
Anthony Gallippi co-founded BitPay in 2011 after recognizing that businesses could not easily accept bitcoin payments. BitPay was the first bitcoin payment processor and was founded to bridge the gap between consumers and merchants. Gallippi served as CEO until May 2014, when he became Executive Chairman. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day operations including sales, marketing and customer service he is responsible for BitPay’s external affairs. He dedicates his time to building partnerships and broadening business relationships, liaising with investors, expanding BitPay’s international presence, and ultimately ensuring BitPay is contributing to the overall bitcoin ecosystem. Gallippi has fifteen years of experience in sales and marketing within the Robotics industry. Before co-founding BitPay, Gallippi was District Sales Manager at Aerotech, and he served as Regional Sales Manager at Industrial Devices Corporation. Gallippi has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.