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Justine Humenansky currently leads meta-governance and delegation relationships at Optimism and previously invested at Playground Global. She has been in the crypto industry since early 2017 and has worked on initiatives with Blockchain at Berkeley, the World Economic Forum, Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative, the United Nations, a16z’s crypto startup school, Celo Camp, the Algorand European Accelerator, and the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. She was a blockchain lead for UC Berkeley’s recent launch of the Nobel NFTs and helped to form FiatLux DAO, a Berkeley alumni DAO, which won The Fourth Pillar Nobel NFT.
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Ben Jones
Ben Jones is a co-founder of Optimism and a former blockchain associate at Underscore VC. He holds a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern University.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Liam Horne
Liam Horne is co-founder of ETHGlobal and former CEO of Optimism. Previously, he co-founded L4 Ventures, where he used in-depth crypto economy research to build core infrastructure and help develop key Web 3 projects.
Vivian (Wei) Tao
Vivian (Wei) Tao is Head of Global Partnerships at Optimism and was previously a PrimeDAO contributor. She graduated from the University of Michigan.
Will Meister
Will Meister is a former software engineer at Flexa and former Vice President of Engineering at Optimism, with a deep background in software engineering, finance, Ethereum and the Bitcoin blockchain.
Karl Floersch
Karl Floersch is the CEO at Optimism. He is a passionate enthusiast of Ethereum, Casper, Cryptoeconomics, blockchain, open source, and meditation.
Ben Edgington
Ben Edgington is the Lead Technology Program Manager at OP Labs and previously was the Lead Product Manager at ConsenSys. He graduated from Cambridge University in England.
Jinglan Wang
Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.
Prithvi Subburaj
Prithvi Subburaj, COO of Optimism, previously held software engineering leadership roles at Google, where he most recently managed the business for wireless subscription service Google Fi after more than 15 years at Google. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University.