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Sean Neville is the co-founder and CEO of Catena Labs and a co-founder and board member of Circle.
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Gagan Mac
Gagan Mac currently serves as Circle's Vice President of Product Management, where he is responsible for designing products for developers. He previously led Ray Ban Stories smart glasses and AR experiences at Meta, delivering successful products at companies like Uber, Twilio, Amazon, and Qualcomm.
Kash Razzaghi
Kash is the Chief Business Officer at Circle, responsible for all facets of the customer lifecycle including Global Revenue, Partnerships, Business Development, Customer Success, and Customer Care. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Sales at Brightcove, responsible for all revenue and customer success in the Americas. Before Brightcove, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Fancred, a digital media platform focused on sports.
Wyatt Lonergan
Wyatt Lonergan is a former head of Circle Ventures and was a senior associate on the Seedinvest investment team.
Sherice Torres
Sherice is formerly Chief Marketing Officer at Circle, and she has more than 25 years of experience in helping cutting-edge brands innovate and engage with customers as a marketing executive at Meta, Google, and Nickelodeon. She has been recognized by the National Diversity Council, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Crain's Business, among others.
Mandeep Walia
Mandeep is the Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Circle. He previously held the role of Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Facebook. Mandeep is responsible for leading Circle's compliance and risk management globally. He has held senior leadership roles in global compliance and enterprise risk management at financial services/fintech companies such as PayPal, LendUp, and State Street. Most recently, Mandeep was the Chief Compliance Officer/Head of Enterprise Risk at Novi, Facebook's digital wallet business.
Brian Christman
Brian Christman is the Chief People Officer at Circle.
Dante Disparte
Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.
Raagulan Pathy
Raagulan Pathy is a co-founder of KAST and was previously Vice president of Asia Pacific and CEO of Singapore at Circle. Previously, he worked at Zoom, Facebook, and Amazon Web Services.
Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to leverage the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Previously, Mr. Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, the US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech. Mr. Allaire provides his expertise and policy recommendations at the highest levels of financial institutions in the US, UK, and Europe.
Josh Hawkins
Josh Hawkins is Senior Vice President, Strategic Positioning & Global Thought Leadership at Circle, a consumer finance startup that uses Bitcoin technology to make money transfers and payments instant, secure, global and free. Circle was founded in 2013 by Internet entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire with $26 million in venture backing from Jim Breyer, Accel, General Catalyst, and Oak Investment Partners. Previously, Josh was Vice President of Marketing at SutherlandGold, a leading tech-focused PR and marketing firm based in San Francisco with clients including Birchbox, Comcast Ventures, CloudFlare, and TOMS. Prior to joining SutherlandGold, Josh was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Brightcove, a leading cloud-based video platform company with software used by thousands media companies and marketers in more than 60 countries. At Brightcove, Josh led global public relations, marketing communications, creative services, and website operations. Josh joined Brightcove in 2005 when it was a pre-revenue, 20-person startup. Over the next eight years, the company grew to 350 employees, with sales and marketing operations in nine countries and revenue of $100 million. In February 2012, Brightcove completed a successful IPO. Josh speaks at industry events and has articles published in Advertising Age and Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly.