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Justine Humenansky currently leads meta-governance and delegation relationships at Optimism and previously invested at Playground Global. She has been in the crypto industry since early 2017 and has worked on initiatives with Blockchain at Berkeley, the World Economic Forum, Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative, the United Nations, a16z’s crypto startup school, Celo Camp, the Algorand European Accelerator, and the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. She was a blockchain lead for UC Berkeley’s recent launch of the Nobel NFTs and helped to form FiatLux DAO, a Berkeley alumni DAO, which won The Fourth Pillar Nobel NFT.
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Ben Jones
Ben Jones is a co-founder of Optimism and a former blockchain associate at Underscore VC. He holds a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern University.
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.
Karen Kao
Karen Kao is Director of Communications at Gate Ventures and Chief Marketing Officer at BOXTradEx. Previously, she was a senior account manager at Ogilvy & Mather and a marketing director at iQiyi.
Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer at Coinbase, previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Maryland.
Karl Floersch
Karl Floersch is the CEO at Optimism. He is a passionate enthusiast of Ethereum, Casper, Cryptoeconomics, blockchain, open source, and meditation.
Jinglan Wang
Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.
Liu Zhiyun
Liu Zhiyun is the Founder of Hummingbird Mining Machinery.
Andreas Koukorinis
Andreas Koukorinis is the Trading head of GSR, having previously been a senior executive at jpmorgan.
Prithvi Subburaj
Prithvi Subburaj, COO of Optimism, previously held software engineering leadership roles at Google, where he most recently managed the business for wireless subscription service Google Fi after more than 15 years at Google. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University.
Binji Pande
Binji Pande is the head of Optimism NFT and previously worked as a product associate at Coinbase. He graduated from Northwestern University.
