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Sam Thapaliya is the founder of Zebec Protocol and Chief Architect and Co-Founder of ASMI. He is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, focusing on Web 3.0, NFTs, programming, and architecture. He is also an advisor at Movement.
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Jiani Chen
Jiani Chen is a partner at Protagonist and head of growth at Solana Foundation. She has also invested in projects such as RedStone, Movement, Solayer, and Fhenix. She graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
Brian Henhsi
Brian Henhsi is Head of Strategy at Movement Labs, having previously held positions at Sui/Mysten Labs and Chia. He graduated from Tsinghua University.
Torab Torabi
Torab Torabi is currently the Director of BD and Growth at Movement and the CEO and Movement ecosystem architect at Move Industries. He graduated from Berkeley University of California.
Andy Bell
Andy Bell is Head of engineering at Movement Labs and previously was Vice President of engineering at Biconomy and Chief Technology Officer at Ajuna. He graduated from the University of Nottingham.
Rushi Manche
Rushi Manche is the co-founder of Movement Labs and was removed from office in May 2025 due to a scandal. He was previously an active developer of the Aptos ecosystem.
Cooper Scanlon
Cooper Scanlon is the co-founder of Movement. Previously, Cooper Scanlon dropped out of Vanderbilt University.
Colin Butler
Colin Butler is the head of institutional capital ball at Movement and was previously the global head of institutional capital at Polygon Technology. His background includes institutional equity sales and trading, private wealth management and alternative marketing.
Grant Gerber
Grant Gerber is Head of Ecosystems at Movement Labs . He previously served as Head of Growth at Essential, Head of Ecosystem at Eclipse, Head of Ecosystem at Fuel, and Chief Governance Officer at Kaddex. With a background in communications and community management, Grant Gerber specializes in working with diverse stakeholder groups to ensure program equity.
Ben Frigon
Ben Frigon is the COO of Talus and previously worked at Distributed Global and Movement Labs.
Simon
Simon is the Chief Operating Officer of Zebec Network.
