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Jihad Esmail is the Product Lead at ForeFront and previously worked on growth and product at Syndicate Protocol.
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Justin Ridgely
Justin Ridgely is the COO at Syndicate. Formerly, Director of Operational Finance at BlockFi, Founder of Reboot Careers, Finance and Strategy Lead at Dissectables, Associate at Credit Suisse.
Carlos Gomes
Carlos Gomes is Founder of Forefront, contributor at MintFund and Seed Club. He works as a software developer at the crypto exchange Huobi, is the founder of social of the token website ForeFront and even launched his own social token called $SWAGG. His background and story is extremely interesting and took him from the Cape Verde islands all the way to China and Silicon Valley. He has built an incredible website called forefront which acts as the the one stop shop for all things social tokens. Part coinmarketcap, part news platform and there is even a resource section to learn everything there is about social tokens.
Yang You
Yang You is the head of design at Paradigm and previously was the lead product Designer at Syndicate. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
Conner Symmetry
Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Will Papper
Will Papper is Co-founder of the Syndicate Protocol. He was previously a Product Manager at Proxy and has been passionate about Ethereum since the 2014 presale. He tweets about DAOs, smart contracts, and VCs, focusing on the impact that technology has on society. He is also the Founder of Librarian AI and a Philosophy major at Stanford.
Ian Lee
Ian Lee is the Co-Founder at Syndicate and formerly Managing Director of IDEO CoLab Ventures and General Partner at Digital Asset Investment Company. He focuses on blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, digital currencies, and Bitcoin. Previously, he was the head of Citi's Global Lab Network and led Citi's Blockchain Accelerator. He worked with Citi's innovation labs, venture investing team, business unit executives, and strategic partners to pursue important growth opportunities for Citi that required deep relationships, coordinated investment, and open collaboration. Ian also helped lead Citi's investments and activities in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Ian brings more than ten years of experience in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Citi Ventures. Before joining Citi Ventures in 2014, he helped build the global innovation organization at Deloitte, a $34B professional services firm. He co-founded two startups, including a communications app and social enterprise, and spent more than six years as a management consultant at Monitor-Deloitte. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and double bachelor degrees in Design Media Arts and Economics from UCLA.
Iman Bright
Iman Bright is head of product at Syndicate and formerly served as senior product manager at Square. He holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University.
James Seely
James Seely is Head of GTM at Syndicate, where he oversees all sales, marketing and customer operations to increase product adoption and drive revenue growth. He previously served as senior product strategist at Carta. He graduated from Santa Clara University.
Joy Batra
Joy Batra is the Head of Legal of Syndicate and holds a J.D. from Harvard University.