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Kevin Kennis is Co-Founder and Engineer at Sommelier. He has been working in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space for four years and specializes in markets and building client-side crypto tools.
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Justin Kilpatrick
Justin Kilpatrick is the Co-Founder and CTO at Althea.net. He takes ideas from research papers to scalable, reliable products.
Federico Kunze Küllmer
Federico Kunze K¨¹llmer is Co-Founder and Director of Evmos, and he is also Co-Founder of Sommelier Protocol
Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder at Sommelier. He has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus systems. Additionally, he is an advisor to the Cosmos project, as well as several other investment funds and startups in the space.
Stephanie Vaughan
Steph Vaughan is the founder of Seven Seas Capital and previously was Head of Operations at Sommelier and Chief Financial Officer at Elixxir. She previously served as Director of Capital Markets and Development at StreetShares, where she focused on providing small business loans. She holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BA in Quantitative Economics from the United States Naval Academy. A former captain in the United States Marine Corps, she served as communications and operations officer and held strategic roles assisting in re-designing the USMC Force and overseeing anti-terrorism efforts for U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan.
Unique Divine
Unique is co-founder and Lead Software Engineer at Nibiru Chain, a layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos. Prior to Nibiru, he was part of the Sommelier Protocol team, where he was able to leverage his skills in Golang, Cosmos SDK, Python, Solidity, TypeScript, and Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he was a data scientist at IBM. Unique studied at Columbia University and has a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics.
Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin is Co-Founder of Sommelier and Founder at Strangelove. He has been working in the Cosmos ecosystem since 2018, first becoming Director of Product at Tendermint, the company that built the consensus protocol that underpins inter-blockchain communications in Cosmos. He then moved on to become VP of Product at Akash Network. Jack has been developing blockchain projects since 2017, when he joined the engineering team of Blockstack. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University.
Taariq Lewis
Taariq Lewis is the CEO and founder of VolumeFi, a cross-chain product lab that is debuting their cross-chain messaging layer, Paloma (palomachain.com). He was also the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol with Zaki Manian and Jack Zampolin and led product management and product marketing for Sommelier. He is a serial entrepreneur who has also founded several successful fintech and blockchain products - Promise, Aquila, and SericaPay. Taariq also helped bring Bitcoin and blockchain engineering to a global audience with numerous educational events.