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Laura Cunningham is the Head of Product at the NEAR Foundation and was previously the General Manager of the NEAR Foundation. She is a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute and Williams College.
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Jordan Gray
Jordan Gray is the Chief Marketing Officer at PublicAI and has extensive expertise in user experience, design systems, virtual reality (VR), mobile app development, DevOps, and full-stack web technologies. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he majored in Computer Science, Journalism, and Art.
Yessin Schiegg
Yessin Schiegg currently serves as a Council Member of the Camino Network Foundation. Previously, he joined the Ethereum Foundation, where he held a significant position on its Advisory Board. During his tenure with the organization, he assisted Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in raising funds for the development of this smart contract-centric network. Additionally, he previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of the NEAR Foundation. Yessin’s career began at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he worked in banking audit.
Diogo Monica
Diogo Mónica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage. Anchorage brings the world’s most advanced and proven security architecture to cryptocurrency custody, to deliver the services institutions expect from a traditional custodian. Before founding Anchorage, he was security lead at Docker, an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. While at Docker he worked on the security foundations of the container and orchestration subsystems that are now used as core building blocks of modern IT infrastructure worldwide. Diogo Monica was an early employee at Square where he led the platform security team and built the security infrastructure used by Square to move over $80B in annualized volume. He has a BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science has published several papers in peer-reviewed security conferences on the topic of distributed systems and information security, and is the author of several patents in secure communications, encrypted hardware, and payment systems. Diogo Monica is a sought-after public speaker having keynotes, lectures and technical briefings on the topics of usable security, infrastructure security, and distributed systems security. He is also an angel investor and an advisor and board member to numerous startups.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
David Norris
David Norris is the Head of Finance at Near Foundation. Presively he was Head Of Finance at Mettle. With close to 20 years hands on experience in scaling and optimising businesses.
Mark Mi
Mark Mi is the Head of Partner Development, Venture Capital and Investor Relations at the NEAR Foundation. Prior to joining the NEAR Foundation, Mark led several teams, including a BD for a gaming meta-universe and a family office fund in Asia. Mark began his career at Ernst & Young and is a UC Berkeley Haas alumnus.