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NiMA Asghari is the founder of Seed Club. Previously, he served as Head of Community Incubation at NEAR Protocol.
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Trent McConaghy
Trent McConaghy is the Founder and CTO at Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB. He did AI research for two decades, including machine creativity and AI to help drive Moore’s Law. For the last several years he has worked on blockchain, focusing on democratizing data via the Ocean Protocol decentralized substrate for AI data & services. He has also worked on the BigchainDB decentralized database, trying to make the opportunities and benefits in AI more equal and ensuring that humanity has a role in an increasingly autonomous world.
Arseny Akinfiev
Arseny Akinfiev is Web3 Tech Lead at Curve Labs. Formerly, Software Engineer at Ocean Protocol.
Kendall Cole
Kendall Cole is currently Head of Product at NEAR. Previously, he was responsible for the Kauri.io project at ConsenSys, and was also involved in the founding of OilFront, EntryWire and other projects.
Illia Polosukhin
Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.
Nicolás Poggi
Nicolas Poggi is a CMO at the Interchain Foundation and previously he was a CMO at Fleek and a senior Developer Marketing Manager at NEAR Protocol. He graduated from the University of Palermo.
Anton Bukov
Anton Bukov is the co-founder of the 1inch Network. He has been involved in software development since 2002 and in DeFi since 2017. Prior to 1inch, he contributed to several crypto projects, including MultiToken, NEAR, and Synthetix.
Bruce Pon
Bruce Pon is CEO of BigchainDB and Founder of Ocean Protocol, working to give people power in a new Data Economy.
Marieke Flament
Marieke Flament was previously CEO of Near Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Circle. He holds a master's degree in information security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Yulian
Yulian is Chief of Staff at NEAR Protocol and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Aurora.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.