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Kobi Gurkan is the Founding Head of Research at Geometry, where he focuses on applied cryptography, security, and experimental projects. He is also the Head of Research at ZKhack and ZKvalidator. Kobi obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
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Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
Claire Belmont
Claire Belmont is a principal at Stardust and former product Partner at Celo. She is a security engineer by training and was previously a co-founder of Enigma. Prior to Celo, he was a product manager at Google.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Xochitl Cazador
Xochitl Cazador is Optimism's Chief of staff and was previously Chief Ecosystem Development Officer at Celo and Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Cisco. She is good at strategy and operations, and is passionate about social impact and blockchain. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Shahaf Bar-Geffen
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Pranay Mohan
Pranay Mohan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomad. Ex-Product Manager at Celo, and Ex-Developer Relations at 0(1) Labs.
Rachel Wolfson
Rachel Wolfson is a reporter for Cointelegraph. She has more than 10 years of writing experience and has been covering the crypto and blockchain space since 2017.
Evgeny Lyandres
Evgeny Lyandres is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at VirtuSwap. He is a Professor of Finance and Head of Blockchain Research Institute at Tel Aviv University.
Yaron Velner
Yaron Velner holds a PhD in computer science from Tel Aviv University. His research is focused on game theory incentives in blockchain protocols and formal verification of smart contracts. He has found several bugs in the Ethereum bug bounty program. Yaron is also an experienced software developer with over 10 years as a senior software engineer and a technical leader at EZchip semi-conductors. He was a member in the data structure and algorithm team, which developed novel data structures for IP routing.
Tomer Afek
Tomer Afek is Co-Founder, CEO at Spacemesh. On a mission to build the fairest possible decentralized economic infrastructure.