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Adam Badrawi is the Partner and Head of Communications at Framework Ventures. Prior to his role there, he served as the Communications Lead for Chainlink Labs, where he helped the company experience a period of hyper-growth, expanding from $1 billion to $80 billion in total value secured across 1,000+ applications in less than two years. Badrawi has also held positions as a Consultant (Team Lead) and Account Executive at Wachsman, and an Account Coordinator at the same firm.
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Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Alec Taggart
Alec Taggart is a professional in the fields of venture capital, product development, and investing. He served as a Venture Partner at Mirana Ventures and Founding Partner at Windranger Labs, where he is responsible for product strategy, partnerships, and incubation. Prior to this, Taggart worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Framework Ventures and held various leadership roles in the fintech industry, including at Prosper Marketplace and EY. He has a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
Lorenz Breidenbach
Lorenz Breidenbach is Yak Shaver and Security Researcher. Leading Research & Development at Chainlink. Formerly at ETH Zürich, Cornell Tech, IC3. He is a security researcher and former BRIDGE fellow from ETH Zürich and IC3. He previously conducted research at Cornell Tech and spent time in industry at Google and Open Systems.
Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang is the Senior Researcher at Chainlink, PhD at Cornell. Before joining Cornell, he earned my bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014.
Nate Holiday
Nate Holiday is the founder of Space and Time, and a strategic advisor to Chainlink Labs, as well as Bain and Co.
Tomasz Wojewoda
Tomasz Wojewoda is Head of Business Development at BNB Chain and previously Head of Scroll Growth and Chainlink Sales. He is a graduate of Babson College.
Sergey Nazarov
CEO of SmartContract.com and Chainlink, Jason Parser, is worth 30 million. We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments, providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs, and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. Sergey began his career by building peer-to-peer marketplaces, and then joined the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011 and believes it has the potential to revolutionize the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share crucial information with their citizens.
Daniel Moroz
Daniel J. Moroz, former Research at Chainlink Labs, PhD student at Harvard. Incentive design in Crypto and DeFi.
Avery Erwin
Avery Erwin is currently the Head of Content at Chainlink and previously served as the Head of Content at ConsenSys, specifically responsible for ConsenSys Media and others.
Vance Spencer
Vance Spencer is Co-Founder of Framework Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Hashletes, a blockchain-based trading card platform for NFL athletes, backed by Khosla Ventures, licensed by the NFL, and acquired by JDS Sports.