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Esteban Ordano is the founder of Decentraland and currently serves as a consultant for the project. Previously, he co-founded Zeppelin Solutions and created Streamium, the first app to implement payment channels, a technology crucial for scaling blockchain payments. As a former software engineer at BitPay, he co-created the leading Bitcoin infrastructure library, known as Bitcore. He was also part of the teams behind Copay (a bitcoin wallet), Insight (a bitcoin blockchain API), and Poet (a blockchain-based publication tool).
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Justin Edwards
Justin Edwards is the Head of Gaming at Telos. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer at Decentraland.
Christopher Jeffrey
Christopher Jeffrey is CTO & Engineer at Purse. Formerly, Software Engineer at GoDaddy and BitPay.
Pierre Rochard
Pierre Rochard is the CEO of Bitcoin Bond and previously served as VP of Research at Riot, Product Manager at Kraken, and Software Engineer at Axial, an online trading network, as well as at BitPay and Hudson River Trading. Pierre Rochard received both his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been researching and writing about Bitcoin since February 2013, co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute in 2014, and is an advocate of distributed governance for Bitcoin.
Sonny Singh
Sonny Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Beluga. He previously served as the chief commercial officer of BitPay from 2014 to 2021.
Stephen Pair
Stephen Pair is the co-founder and CEO of Bitpay, a Bitcoin merchant service. Prior to founding Bitpay, he was a senior development engineer at IBM. Widely regarded as an expert in cryptography, Pair also holds two patents related to streaming analytics.
Ari Meilich
Ari Meilich is the founder and former CEO of Decentraland. He went on to found Big Time Studios, an NFT game studio, and is now the CEO of Open Loot, a gaming platform.
Michelle Lai
MICHELLE LAI has been working in cryptocurrency full-time since 2018 and is passionate about technology, investing and problem solving. She is a member of the board of Directors of Electric Coin Co., and was previously Director of BitPay Asia Pacific and Head of Business Development for Anchorage. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ignacio Mazzara
José Ignacio Mazzara, Engineer Mananger at Decentraland, Software engineer, entrepreneur, product-oriented, who enjoy building cool solutions improving people lives.
Tim Byun
Tim Byun is the former Global Government Relations Officer of OKX and was previously CEO of Okcoin and Chief Compliance Officer of BitPay. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Agustin Mendez
Agustin Mendez was previously a Engineer at Muun and Technical Lead at Decentraland. in 2016, he joined MuleSoft as a Software Engineer, where he developed a number of in-house tool prototypes and parts of the DataWeave programming language, and in 2018, he joined Decentraland as a Technical Lead.
