The Ava Labs Team

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

Emin Gün Sirer

CEO

Kevin Sekniqi

COO

Maofan "Ted" Yin

Chief Protocol Architect

John Wu

Business Operations

President

Carrianne Fairbairn

Business Operations

Executive Assistant‍

Chris Lavery

Business Operations

Chief Finance Officer

Evan Tong

Business Operations

Intern

Joe Ferrara

Business Operations

Business Development

Lydia Chiu

Business Operations

VP of Business Development

Olivia Song

Business Operations

Business Development - Korea

Phillip Liu Jr.

Business Operations

Head of Strategy

Ricardo Vazquez

Business Operations

Business Development - LATAM

Yuri Aflen

Business Operations

Business Development Intern

Chris Wilbourgé

Designer

Felipe Andres

Designer

Amani Moin

Chief Economist

Aaron Buchwald

Software Engineering Intern

Bernard Wong

Software Engineer

Cevahir Demirkiran

Software Engineer

Collin Cusce

Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Laine

Senior Software Engineer

Dhruba Basu

Software Engineering Intern

Emre Kanatli

Software Engineer

Fabio Barone

Software Engineer

Hongbo Zhang

Software Engineering Intern

Michael Kaplan

Senior Software Engineer

Momo Araki

Software Engineer

Stephen Buttolph

Senior Systems Architect

Tyler Smith

Software Engineer

Aytunç Yıldızlı

General Manager

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

VP of Marketing

Nicolas Lemaitre

General Manager

Noah Childress

General Manager

Radostin Minchev

General Manager‍

Patrick Sutton

Director of Communications

Ryan Chen

General Manager

Saulo Santos

Community Growth Ambassador

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.

Careers

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