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Mustafa Al-Bassam is the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a UCL Blockchain Scaling Ph.D. He is also a co-founder of Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook.
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Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward is the founder of Enumero and the former CTO of Fetch AI. Previously, he received a PhD in machine learning from University College London, where he studied protein folding problems. He was also involved in applying machine learning algorithms to problems such as time series and machine vision.
Bobby Ong
Bobby Ong is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of CoinGecko, an established cryptocurrency data analytics and research platform. He has been in the industry since 2013 and was recognized as a recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from University College London and Singapore-GCE A-Levels from Anderson Junior College. Previously, Bobby worked as a Digital Marketing Manager at Sime Darby Property Berhad.
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.
Ismail Khoffi
Ismail Khofi is the co-founder and CTO of Celestia, and he was a senior engineer at Tendermint and the Interchain Foundation.
Nick White
Nick White is the Chief Operating Officer of Celestia, and a co-founder of Harmony. He has a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Stanford.
Ben Caselin
Ben Caselin is chief marketing officer at VALR and was previously vice president and chief strategy officer at MaskEX and vice president at AAX.
John Adler
John Adler is the Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer at Celestia and Co-Founder & ex-CTO of Fuel. He is the creator of Optimistic Rollups and a former Scalability Fellow at ConsenSys.
Joao Beraldo
Joao Beraldo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jungle. He graduated from King's College London.
Symington W. Smith
Symington W. Smith is the co-founder of HurricaneSwap, and also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Thai General Chamber of Commerce and the Marketing Director of Inertia Ventures. He graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor's degree and obtained a Master's degree from King's College London.