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Matthew Paik is the DeFi, Gaming, and NFT Leadat LayerZero and previously worked at ROK Capital, Coinbase, and Amazon. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Pomona College.
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Ryan Zarick
Ryan Zarick is a Co-founder and CTO at LayerZero Labs, a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that is building the Layer 0 of blockchain. He has over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, having co-founded Minimal AI, Coder Den, and 80Trill, and held the CTO position at Buzzdraft. Ryan holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire.
Austin Chan
Austin Chan is the Ecosystem Lead at Fluent and was previously the Head of Business Development at Morph and BD at LayerZero. He is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Shanghai American School.
Bryan Pellegrino
Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs. He has also worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lead Engineer for Machine Learning Architecture, and co-founder for OpenToken. Bryan graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Computer Science in 2008.
Caleb Banister
Caleb Banister is a Co-Founder of LayerZero Labs. He specializes in writing and auditing Smart Contracts for blockchain-related projects. Caleb is a professional Solidity developer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire. He is a highly skilled Java and Linux programmer and is building the future and multichain metaverse.
0xMaki
0xMaki is the co-founder of Heroglyphs and Aura Finance, and was previously a core contributor to SushiSwap and Chief Strategy Advisor at LayerZero.
Simon Baksys
Simon Baksys is Vice president of business development at LayerZero and was previously the BD lead for Google's Cloud web3 team. He graduated from the University of Central Florida.
Gajesh Naik
Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.
Seena Foroutan
Seena Foroutan is the former head of business development at LayerZero, former head of business development at Chainlink, and former institutional sales manager at Coinbase.
0xbeachball
0xbeachball is the founder of Synonym Finance and was previously a contributor to New Order, Notional, and LayerZero.
Richard Dietrich
Richard Dietrich is the head of talent at LayerZero. He graduated from the University of the Pacific.