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Cole Kennelly is the Founder & CEO of Volmex Labs. Cole was the second employee and first business hire at Staked (leading staking provider acquired by Kraken in 2021) and the organizer of the DeFi NYC meetup.
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Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Brent Gerundo
Brent Gerundo is VP, Head of Finance & Operations at Messari, where he is responsible for developing financial and operational strategy. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sam Mitchell
Sam Mitchell is co-founder of Firewall and previously worked at Staked.
Yudan Yi
Yudan Yi is a co-founder of Geodnet and was previously a location Research scientist at Qianxun SI. He graduated from Tongji University, Wuhan University and Ohio State University.
Seth Riney
Entrepreneurial technologist with unique ability to analyze and solve business and technical problems on the runway (code), at 30,000 feet (business strategy) and anywhere in between.
Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is Head of Staked at Kraken and was previously co-founder and CEO of Staked. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdBuyer.com, which was acquired by Mediaocean in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
Ricardo Da Ros
Ricardo Da Ros is the CEO of Patex. He was ex-Head of Brazil at Binance & Crypto.com.
Derek Barrera
Derek Barrera is the CEO/Founder of Steer Protocol. Previously, he was the Principle CTO at Proof of Impact, an Engineer at Voyager, and a Core Engineer at Ethos.io. He is a highly skilled and energetic professional with a strong software engineering and developer operations background. He offers extensive hands-on experience with a multitude of programming disciplines, including MEAN and LAMP stacks, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Java EE, C++, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Mobile Application Development, and WordPress. He also has versatile office skills and proficiency in the complete Adobe Creative Suite.
Jonathan Marcus
Co-founder of Staked.us for PoS protocols. Previously founded Goodsie, Flavors and helped grow Vimeo. Loyal Heat and Chargers fan. Staked operates highly available and highly secure, institutional grade staking infrastructure for leading proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols. Staked runs best-in-class validation node infrastructure, and works with stakeholders to generate a passive yield for them on their cryptocurrency holdings.
Ryan Wyatt
Ryan Wyatt is the Chief Growth Officer at Optimism. He was the Global Head of Gaming Partnerships at Google and Head of Gaming at YouTube, where he also led their Virtual and Augmented Reality business. Wyatt is the former CEO of Polygon Labs.