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James Dyer is a highly experienced product leader with a diverse range of skills in product strategy, team building, customer discovery, end-to-end design, and technical development of web and mobile applications. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Ante, an innovative e-commerce wallet that makes customer returns effortless. Before this, James was the Head of Product and Co-founder of Decrypt, a Web3 media company that achieved 10+ million MAU. He has also worked at Formidable, ConsenSys, and LitePaper. James was awarded a 1st Class Honours degree in Information Management for Business, Computer Science and Management from UCL, and is the recipient of the McKinsey Schools Leadership Program award.
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Terry Rossi
Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Namik Muduroglu
Namik was an investor at Hypersphere Ventures, an early-stage venture fund leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of blockchain networks in which they invest.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Helena Gagern
Helena Gagern is a graduate of UCL who worked in software development and product design before co-founding Salsa in 2022.
Vance Gong
Vance Gong is the Founder & CEO of MAY.Social. He graduated from the University of London in the UK and holds an MBA degree from Peking University.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is an Investment Partner at Variant. Prior to joining Variant, Mason was a Sr. Research Analyst at Messari focused on Web3 protocols and cryptoassets. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Bogdan Gheorghe
Bogdan Gheorghe is a co-founder at BarnBridge. Bogdan has also worked as a project manager at Digital M.O.B. and as a data scientist at ConsenSys Codefi and ConsenSys. Bogdan has also worked at Alethio as a data scientist. Bogdan Gheorghe has a Master's degree in Statistics from the Academia de Studii Economice din București.
Dragos Rizescu
Dragos Rizescu is a co-founder at BarnBridge. Dragos was previously a software developer at Digital M.O.B., and then a product manager at ConsenSys. In December 2016, they co-founded Treum.io, where they worked until August 2020. Dragos Rizescu attended the University Politehnica of Bucharest and the "Tudor Vianu" National College of Computer Science.
Milad Mostavi
Milad Mostavi is a software architect and the co-founder of BarnBridge. Milad has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has worked with some of the biggest names in the business. Mostavi started their career as a software engineer at WebTailors, where they worked for 8 years and 5 months. Milad then moved to ConsenSys, where they worked for 5 years. In their current role, Mostavi is responsible for the architecture and development of BarnBridge's platform. Milad Mostavi attended the Universitatea „Politehnica” din București from 2004-2009. Milad then went on to study Python Programming at the University of Michigan.