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Pedro Gomes is the founder of WalletConnect. He is known as "The Wallet Guy" and is a JSON-RPC maximalist. He built WalletConnect Protocol and Web3Modal. Previously, he was a Full Stack Engineer at Connext.
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Richard Burton
Richard Burton is the former CEO of Balance-io. He studied the initial concept of Ethereum and is working with some great people to build the Balance wallet product.
Layne Haber
Layne is one of the co-founders of Connext, an infrastructure layer that scales the Ethereum blockchain. She has been working in the Ethereum space for two years, primarily on state channels and state channel networks. Before delving into the world of cryptocurrencies, she started a company focused on predicting bipolar episodes based on mobile phone patterns.
Frances Edwards
Frances Edwards is Chief Operating Officer of Avantgarde and previously COO of Valour and COO of EMEA at BlackRock. She graduated from the University of Bath.
Gemma Lo
Gemma Lo is the Chief Marketing Officer of Everest Ventures Group and was previously PR Manager at Only1. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Economics from the University of Bath.
Ivy Qi
Ivy Qi is the CMO of Chainbase and previously was Senior Marketing Director at Conflux, Investment Director at Huobi, and Marketing Manager at Xiaomi. She graduated from the University of Bath in 2012.
Rahul Sethuram
Rahul is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and developer with experience in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript web development (Node, React, GraphQL, SQL), Ethereum development, and serving as the CTO of Connext. He is a talented and visionary product-focused entrepreneur with a well-rounded skill set, having worked with both small startups and big companies, leading teams and projects as well as individually contributing. Rahul is also interested in cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, AI, and robotics. His achievements include winning the Status.im Global Hackathon for "Most Potential", being the co-founder of TipdOff (which was acquihired by ColorTokens), and being promoted multiple times to team lead at Tesla Motors.
Michael Demarais
Mike Demarais is Co-Founder of Rainbow, also hypeman for UniSwap Exchange, interface obsessed engineer.
James Strudwick
James Strudwick is the Executive Director and former Head of Ecosystem Growth at StarkNet and was previously Vice President of Growth at Mina Foundation and Head of Business Development at Alpaca Finance.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Jess Houlgrave
Jess Houlgrave is Chief Operating Officer of WalletConnect and was previously Chief of Staff at Checkout.com and co-founder and COO of Codex Protocol. She graduated from Oxford University.