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Yaz Khoury is the Head of Developer Relations at Celestia.
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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.
Isha Varshney
Isha Varshney is the Head of DeFi at Celo.
Bob Summerwill
Bob Summerwill is Executive Director for the ETC Cooperative and has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. He worked on Ethereum and Hyperledger in earlier years, followed by a switch to Ethereum Classic and a belated Bitcoin orange-pilling. He has a growing interest in privacy projects. Bob has been programming since 1984 and as a professional software engineer since 1996 (primarily 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 foundational in the creation of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, working full-time on that project for ConsenSys from October 2016 to October 2017.
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.
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.
Ismail Khoffi
Ismail Khofi is the co-founder and CTO of Celestia, and he was a senior engineer at Tendermint and the Interchain Foundation.