The Ava Labs
LeadershipTeam

Emin Gün Sirer

Engineering

CEO

Kevin Sekniqi

Engineering

COO

John Wu

Business Development

President

Lee Schneider

Operations

General Counsel

Chris Lavery

Operations

CFO

Nick Mussallem

Product

SVP of Product

Akash Gupta

Product

Director of Product Management

Patrick O'Grady

Engineering

VP of Engineering

Stephen Buttolph

Engineering

Chief Protocol Architect

John Nahas

Business Development

VP of Business Development

Lydia Chiu

Business Development

VP of Business Development

Luigi DeMeo

Business Development

Senior Director of Business Development: Head of Defi

Ed Chang

Business Development

Director of Business Development, Gaming

Morgan Krupetsky

Business Development

Director of Business Development, Institutional & Capital Markets

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Marketing

VP of Marketing

Garrison Yang

Marketing

VP of Growth
Marketing

Experience

We're a world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're passionate individuals creating a frictionless world by redefining the way people build and use finance applications.

The Ava Labs team has collective experience from leading Fortune 500 finance and tech companies to high-growth blockchain companies.

Advisors

Maureen O'Hara

Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Seminal figure in microstructure theory.

Adam Kravetz

COO Seven Eight Capital. COO ETF Market Making and Arbitrage, Citadel Securities. COO Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Managing Director, Tower Research Capital.

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