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Stephen Duignan is Head of Growth at Casper and former Head of Marketing at Algorand Foundation. Stephen joined the Algorand Foundation from LogMeIn, a SaaS technology company focused on the development of industry leading UCaSS, IDaSS and CE products, where he was VP International Marketing & Strategy. While Stephen's career has been built in marketing, he originally graduated with a BSc. in Applied Physics from Dublin City University. The intersection of technology, science and building markets is Stephen's passion.
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Jing Chen
Jing Chen is the Chief Scientist at Algorand and former Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University. Her main research interests are distributed ledgers, game theory, and algorithms. Jing received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and her PhD in Computer Science from MIT. She did a one-year postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Jing received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016.
Mrinal Manohar
Mrinal Manohar is a Venture Partner with Reflective Ventures. He has been personally investing in the crypto space for six years. Prior to this, he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head of a ~$1b long-only hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston, and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company in Boston. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science since he began programming at age 11.
Yossi Gilad
Yossi Gilad is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Algorand chief technology officer and director of systems research. Prior to Algorand, Yossi Gilad was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and Boston University. Before MIT/BU, he was a research staff member at IBM and also a postdoc researcher at the Hebrew University, Israel. Even before that he held research and engineering positions at Google, Marvell’s switching division, and Israel Defense Forces. Yossi Gilad completed his PhD at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is a recipient of the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2017), the IBM Research Inventor Recognition Award (2015), and the Check Point Institute for Information Security Prize (2013-2014).
Zhenfei Zhang
Zhenfei Zhang is an engineer at Scroll and a researcher at Ethereum Foundation. He was previously the co-founder and chief technology officer of Manta Network. He has extensive experience in the field of cryptography and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers on cryptography.
Medha Parlikar
Medha Parlikar is the CTO, Co-Founder at Casper Labs. Presively she was Program Manager at Pyrofex Corp. Sr. Director, Product & Engineering at Avalara.
Rochelle Guillou
Rochelle Guillou is Head of Content marketing at XMTP and was previously a market researcher at Flipside Crypto and community Project manager at Algorand.
Shumo Chu
Shumo Chu is the founder of NEBRA, co-founder of Manta Network. He graudated as a PhD from University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering.
Gary Malouf
Gary Malouf is the CTO of Algorand. He graduated from Northeastern University and Marist College.
Fangfang Chen
Fangfang Chen is Head of Asia Pacific at Bank of New York Mellon and former Head of Operations, Algorand Foundation. Fangfang holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing.
Sergey Gorbunov
Sergey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo since 2016. He is interested in constructing cryptographic primitives, protocols, and systems that enable novel applications in untrusted and distributed settings. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow, and he earned his MSc and BSc from UToronto. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on creating cryptographic tools for the cloud using lattice-based cryptography, for which he was awarded the Sprowls Doctoral Thesis Award for the best thesis in CS at MIT. He was part of the founding team of Algorand, where he was involved in various business and technical aspects of the company, and he headed the cryptography group. Additionally, he spent some time at IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre.