David Norris

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David Norris is the Head of Finance at Near Foundation. Presively he was Head Of Finance at Mettle. With close to 20 years hands on experience in scaling and optimising businesses.

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Arpit Sharma

Arpit Sharma is the Managing Director, Middle East, India, South East Asia at NEAR Foundation. Presively he was the Vice President, Global Enterprises, APAC at Polygon Technology.

Laura Cunningham

Laura Cunningham is the Head of Product at the NEAR Foundation and was previously the General Manager of the NEAR Foundation. She is a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute and Williams College.

Diogo Monica

Diogo Mónica is the Co-Founder and President of Anchorage. Anchorage brings the world’s most advanced and proven security architecture to cryptocurrency custody, to deliver the services institutions expect from a traditional custodian. Before founding Anchorage, he was security lead at Docker, an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. While at Docker he worked on the security foundations of the container and orchestration subsystems that are now used as core building blocks of modern IT infrastructure worldwide. Diogo Monica was an early employee at Square where he led the platform security team and built the security infrastructure used by Square to move over $80B in annualized volume. He has a BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science has published several papers in peer-reviewed security conferences on the topic of distributed systems and information security, and is the author of several patents in secure communications, encrypted hardware, and payment systems. Diogo Monica is a sought-after public speaker having keynotes, lectures and technical briefings on the topics of usable security, infrastructure security, and distributed systems security. He is also an angel investor and an advisor and board member to numerous startups.

Yadira Blocker

Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.