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Brecht Devos is the Co-founder & CTO at Taiko.Brecht used to work for Loopring as the Chief Architect, but over the last 12 months or so, he had been working on PSE’s zkEVM with researchers and engineers from the Ethereum Foundation and other open-source projects. Brecht leads Taiko’s Zero-Knowledge R&D team with an objective to implement all remaining EVM opcodes and to customize the zkEVM to fit Taiko’s layer 2 protocol design.
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Terence Lam
Terence is the co-founder of Taiko. He has over 25 years of experience in global fortune 500 technology companies as well as startup environment, accumulated extensive industry knowhow and have earned a renown reputation in the field over the years.
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Mamy Ratsimbazafy is Lead R&D at Taiko and former Blockchain Research at Status. Also Data Scientist freelance and deep learning framework author in Nim language.
Daniel Wang
Daniel Wang is the founder of Taiko and Loopring. He was formerly a Google Tech Lead, co-founder and VP of Yunrang Technology, senior engineering director at JD.com, co-founder and CEO of Coinport Exchange, co-founder and VP of Hygene Online, and senior director and blockchain researcher of Zhongan Technology.
Matthew Finestone
Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder & COO at Taiko.He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.
Sishir Varghese
Sishir Varghese is the Co-Founder and CEO of Spectral. Previously, he served as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of AlphaChain from October 2017 to January 2022, and was also a Strategic Partner of Loopring.
Steve Guo
Steve Guo was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of fifteen. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 2005 and began his career at Intel as a software engineer and tech lead. In 2018, Steve founded Dora Network, a blockchain company focused on side-chains and interoperability. His team also developed the capability to optimize Zero-Knowledge Proof computation with GPUs. In July 2019, Steve and his team from Dora Network joined Loopring as CTO to build the first zkRollup system. In early 2022, Steve was appointed CEO of Loopring.