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Yessin Schiegg currently serves as a Council Member of the Camino Network Foundation. Previously, he joined the Ethereum Foundation, where he held a significant position on its Advisory Board. During his tenure with the organization, he assisted Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in raising funds for the development of this smart contract-centric network. Additionally, he previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of the NEAR Foundation. Yessin’s career began at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he worked in banking audit.
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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.
Carl Beekhuizen
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Sina Habibian
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Mike Neuder
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Danny Ryan
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Yadira Blocker
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Christian Reitwiessner
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