Alessandro De Carli

President of Board, Acurast

Alessandro is an entrepreneur and engineer with a passion for software security. As co-founder and CEO of Papers, he helped the company grow to 25 employees with many Fortune 500 clients. Today, he is leading the Acurast project, a protocol enabling the next wave of web3 adoption. Alessandro holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Zurich.

Alex Liu

Director Of Operations, Tezos Commons

A bayou attorney that nerds out on all things that are DAOs, US security regulations, and Tezos, while also baking on the Tezos blockchain and spreading the community driven Tezos Common's mission: building communities on Tezos.

Andrea Cerone

Software Engineer, Trilitech

Andrea Cerone is a core engineer at Trilitech. He has driven the implementation of Data Availability Committees on Tezos, which was a coordinated effort between engineers from both Trililtech and Marigold. Previously, he worked on Smart Rollups and the Data Availability Layer. Andrea also has research experience in the fields of distributed computing and formal methods.

Arthur Breitman

Co-Founder, Tezos

Arthur Breitman is an early architect of the Tezos protocol. Prior to becoming involved in Tezos full time, he worked at X and Waymo on self-driving cars. In his earlier career, he worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and holds a MS in financial mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU.

Bernd Oostrum

Co-founder, Plenty

At Tezsure, we build developer tools and DeFi products on the Tezos blockchain. Before co-founding Tezsure, I worked as lead blockchain architect and developer for one of the biggest insurance companies in the Netherlands. During that time I designed and developed blockchain solutions for insurance companies and the Dutch government.

Carsten van Husen

Gaming Entrepreneur, Eleet Games

Eleet develops and publishes games, both off and on-chain (Tezos). Carsten has been a serial gaming entrepreneur since Web1 and brought free-to-play into the West as CEO of Gameforge with 500M+ players in 75 countries.

Charles Baldet

Head of Sales & Partnerships, Billy

Charles worked for more than six years in Saas B2B companies before joining Billy, a WEB3 ticketing and CRM software mainly on Tezos. He is also a Business Angel and mentor for several startups within the HEC incubator and 1kubator (mentioned in the top 10 investors under 35 years old, by Les Echos).

Claude Barde

Developer Relations, Trilitech

Daniel Liebert

Co-founder, StakeNow

Daniel is co-founder of StakeNow and started his Tezos journey at the beginning of the betanet after quitting his Tier 2 investment bank career. StakeNow quickly became the largest Baker in Germany. Daniel fulfills operational and is responsible for the product development of StakeNow.fi.

Dmitriy Kovalevskiy

Founder, Kord.fi

Before founding Kord.Fi, I worked as a quantitative researcher at investment banks and held key roles at a leading Eastern European neobank, being responsible for the advisory and market-making divisions.

Emma Turner

Software Engineer, Trilitech

Emma Turner is a core engineer at Trilitech. Over the past year she has focused on Smart Rollup kernels. Over time this grew into the Kernel SDK, a collaborative effort between Trilitech, Nomadic Labs and Marigold, which aims to make development of Smart Rollups simpler.

Francois Thiré

Senior Software Engineer, Nomadic Labs

Technical leader for the data-availability layer (DAL) project at Nomadic Labs, one of the largest research and development centers in the Tezos ecosystem. This role is a capstone in his three-year tenure with Nomadic Labs, where he has contributed to the shell of the Tezos blockchain.

Hadrien Zerah

Head of BD and Support, Nomadic Labs

Hadrien is an automation engineer and spent seven years in Brazil managing a subsidiary of the French Petroleum Institute. In 2019, he obtained a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique. He then joined Nomadic Labs as an Adoption Manager, before joining the board as Managing Director and President.

Jean Schmitt

Lead Backend Developer, Ubisoft

Jean joined Ubisoft in 2021 as lead developer in the Strategic Innovation Lab team, contributing to the team's effort in exploring new opportunities offered by the blockchain to the gaming industry.

Laurent Bernou-Mazars

Co-founder & CTO, Exaion

Laurent is co-founder and CTO of Exaion. A graduate of INSA Lyon, he spent 13 years in the EDF group IT department and is self-taught person with a passion for new technologies including IoT, Big Data, AI and Blockchain.

Marco Reber

CEO, Ecoo

Marco is an entrepreneur and a passionate expert in digital ecosystems. He brings a proven track record in large corporates and the start up industry. He loves to try new approaches and believes in making the impossible possible. He studied at the university of St. Gallen and MIT, where he did a deep dive in Design Thinking.

Markus Läng

Project Manager, Papers

Project manager at Youves and Papers AG. NFT collector and DeFi enthusiast. Long time Tezos supporter, following the blockchain revolution since 2011. Successfully left the media industry in 2021 to work for his passion.

Martin Lynge

VP of Gaming, Misfits Gaming and Block Born

Martin "Deficio" Lynge, esports veteran with a decade of experience, from competing professionally in League of Legends to commentating for Riot Games and now VP of Gaming at Misfits Gaming Group. Lynge builds gaming software and the platform Block Born as well as identifies future investment opportunities.

Michael Mendes

Head of DeFi, Trilitech

Mike is a seasoned fintech and SAAS partnerships professional with over eight years of experience. Having successfully transitioned into the blockchain industry, Mike now leads DeFi partnerships at Trilitech, driving collaboration and innovation in the decentralized finance space.

Nicolas Ochem

Founder, MIDL.dev

Nicolas is the founder of MIDL.dev, a blockchain infra company, and a team member at Oxhead Alpha, a Tezos core development team.

Patrick McCorry

Researcher, Arbitrum Foundation

Patrick has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies in academic research and industry. Before working at the Arbitrum Foundation, he worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. He was an Assistant Professor at King's College London and a researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.

Pierrick Couderc

Software Engineer, Nomadic Labs

I worked on languages and compilation before joining Nomadic Labs in 2020 to work on wallets and Smart Rollups.

Pierre-Louis Dubois

Blockchain Developer, Marigold

I started work at Marigold as a blockchain engineer in 2022 on the Deku project. One year later, I joined the Smart Rollups team. As a Rust developer, I participated in the development of the Kernel Gallery to help people develop their first kernels. I am currently working on a project to reduce Smart Rollups latency and improve user experience.

Roy Scheeren

Senior Developer, StakeNow

Roy is a full stack developer with an interest in cloud computing and Tezos who co-founded StakeNow. He previously worked at Nona Digital in Cape Town SA where he was responsible for various projects commissioned by the Tezos Foundation. He now works full-time on Tezos-related projects.

Simon Thomas

Blockchain Partnerships, Exaion

Simon trained as an engineer and began his career as a consultant at Nexity. His passion for the blockchain field took him to NEOFACTO, a crypto integrator, where he led the Paris agency and contributed to the development of its commercial activity. He joined Exaion in 2023 to strengthen its blockchain activity and create new Web3 products.

Thomas Letan

Software Engineer, Nomadic Labs

Thomas joined Nomadic Labs in 2021. He started working on Optimistic Rollups after six months and never stopped. From transactions rollups to Smart Rollups, he has actively contributed to the efforts to add mature and decentralised scalability solutions to Tezos mainnet.

Tim Boeckmann

CEO, Mailchain

Valentin Chaboche

Software Engineer, Nomadic Labs

R&D Software Engineer at Nomadic Labs for 2 years. I have been working exclusively with Tezos layer 2 solutions since 2022.

Vlad Horilyi

COO, Madfish Solutions

Professional Degen, DeFI enthusiast, Retrospective Trading Adviser, Head of masonic NFT-lodge, and Tezos maxi.

Zaki Manian

Co-founder, Sommelier Protocol & Iqlusion

Zaki is a co-founder of Sommelier, the decentralized asset management protocol which makes DeFi more accessible, profitable, and efficient. He also co-founded Iqlusion, which provides infrastructure and the Cosmos validator for next-gen crypto technologies. Having studied atthe University of Pennsylvania, Zaki has been a leading blockchain developer since 2014.