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Cyrus Younessi joined the MakerDAO team in February 2019 as Head of Risk Management. Previously, he was the Director of Research and Trading at Scalar Capital, the digital currencies investment analyst at Cumberland Mining and a trader at DRW. He holds a Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA.
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Coulter Mulligan
Coulter Mulligan is the VP, Marketing and Communications at UDHC. Former Head of Marketing Maker Foundation. Coulter is a marketing specialist with over fifteen years of experience in go-to-market strategy, community building, and communications. In three years at the Maker Foundation, he developed branding, messaging, and the overarching marketing playbook. In a previous life, he worked at GoPro, Tesla, and Electronic Arts. His experience directly translates to the guidance he provides portfolio companies on their MarComms strategy. Coulter has been in crypto since 2013, and in his free time dabbles in NFTs, playing tennis, and reading sci-fi books.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu is Head of marketing communications at Avail, and previously she was Head of Communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Kerry Wong
Kerry Wong is head of investor relations at Pantera Capital and was previously head of investor relations at Scalar Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Jordan Palmer
Jordan Palmer is Director of Operations at Scalar Capital. Previously Quantitative Analyst at JP Morgan. Masters in Financial Engineering at NY University.
Rune Christensen
Rune Christensen is the founder of MakerDAO. Since 2015, he has been working on the vision of building a distributed autonomous organization, as well as stabilizing the economic foundation of digital currencies. Previously, he co-founded Try China, an international recruitment company.
David Utrobin
David Utrobin is Vice President of Grants and Communities at Ajna Protocol and was previously Director of Community Development at MakerDAO. He is a graduate of Baruch College.
Jesús Rodriguez
Jesús Rodriguez is the Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of IntoTheBlock. He is a board member of several enterprise software companies, such as Electric Cloud and Mobiquity, and serves as an advisor to companies like Microsoft and Oracle.
Jocelyn Chang
Jocelyn Chang is the former APAC Growth Lead at MakerDAO. Jocelyn started her career at HSBC as a banker. She also co-founded a social networking app in Singapore. As part of her entrepreneurial journey, she also led the role to pioneer the implementation of a public warning system in Singapore with MHA. Her mantra is to embrace new technologies that make the world a better place.
Andy Chorlian
Andy Chorlian, the Founder of Fractional, is a former Engineer at MakerDAO and a hip hop enthusiast. He identifies as a computer nerd and blockchain enthusiast, having graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from Villanova in 2016 (go cats!).
Chris Bradbury
Chris Bradbury is the CEO at Oasis.app. He was formerly the Lead Product Manager at MakerDAO.