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Yaz Khoury was previously Head of Developer Relations at Celestia and Director of Developer Relations at Ethereum Classic Cooperative.
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Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
Bob Summerwill
Bob Summerwill is currently the Head of Ecosystems at BlockApps and previously served as the Executive Director of ETC Cooperative. He has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. In his early years, Bob worked on Ethereum and Hyperledger before moving to Ethereum Classic, where his interest in privacy projects grew. Bob has been programming since 1984 and working as a professional software engineer since 1996 (mostly working on AAA video games). Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003 and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK. He was the basis for the creation of the Enterprise Ethernet Alliance, and worked on the project full-time from October 2016 to October 2017 for ConsenSys. He co-presented the technical roadmap at the EEA launch and served first as Secretary of the Technical Working Group and then as Vice-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee. Prior to that role, he spent some time at the Ethernet Foundation.
Isha Varshney
Isha Varshney is the Head of Ecosystem Strategy at the Celo Foundation and was previously a Fellow at Gitcoin. Isha graduated from the University of Oxford.
Claire Belmont
Claire Belmont is a principal at Stardust and former product Partner at Celo. She is a security engineer by training and was previously a co-founder of Enigma. Prior to Celo, he was a product manager at Google.
Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Sophia Dew
Sophia Dew is the head of Developer Relations at Celo and was previously the Technical Lead at Gitcoin. He graduated from Stanford University.
Erik Yang
Erik Yang is a managing partner at Fundamental Labs and previously served as chief technology officer at DFG and Ethereum Classic Labs.
Vanessa Slavich
Vanessa Slavich was Partner at cLab. In the role, she lead the Experience Team, focused on awakening the Celo movement in every individual through a combination of user research, design, brand, storytelling, events, community, communications, and culture. She received my Masters in Interaction Design with a focus on social impact and, prior to Celo, worked with the United Nations OCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data and the Kapor Center for Social Impact.
Xochitl Cazador
Xochitl Cazador is Optimism's Chief of staff and was previously Chief Ecosystem Development Officer at Celo and Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at Cisco. She is good at strategy and operations, and is passionate about social impact and blockchain. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jelena Djuric
Jelena Djuric is the Co-Founder & CEO of Noble. She is the Former Community Manager of DFINITY. Jelena Djuric graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada.