The Ava Labs Team

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

Patrick O'Grady

Engineering

VP of Engineering

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Marketing

VP of Marketing

John Nahas

Business Development

VP of BD

Lydia Chiu

Business Development

VP of Business Development

Patrick Sutton

Marketing

VP of PR & Comms

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

Aaron Buchwald

Software Engineer

Akash Gupta

Product

Director of Product Management

Alvaro Cadeno

Operations

Head of Talent

Ben Pursell

Product

Sr Technical Product Manager

Conor Leary

Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Connor Chevli

Engineering

Senior UI Engineer

Connor Daly

Engineering

Software Engineer

Daniel Laine

Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Danny Fenstermaker

Engineering

Engineering Manager

Gabriel Cardona

Engineering

Senior Test Engineer & Developer Evangelist

Elizabeth McCracken

Operations

Head of Finance

Stephen Buttolph

Engineering

Chief Protocol Architect

Gyuho Lee

Engineering

Staff Software Engineer

Jasper Zhang

Product

Senior Data Scientist

Ted Yin

Engineering

Chief Protocol Architect

Joanne Park

Operations

Chief Compliance Officer

Katherine "KK" Mayo

Operations

Director of Operations

Kevin Chen

Operations

Director of Strategic Operations

Kieran McShane

Product

Technical Product
Manager

Shiv Shankar

Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager

Koyuki Nakamori

Marketing

Director of Market Intelligence

Leart Ulaj

Product

Technical Product
Manager

Lucian Stroie

Product

Sr Technical Product Manager

MacMillan Morse

Product

Senior Technical Product
Manager

Michael Kaplan

Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Michelle Tian

Product

Technical Product Manager

Mike Buono

Product

Senior Technical Product
Manager

Nicolas Lemaitre

Marketing

Community Manager

Todd Whatcott

Product

Product Design Lead

Reed Wang

Product

Lead Data Scientist

Wee Ming Choon

Operations

Deputy General Counsel

Sinan Mellaart

Business Development

Director of Investor Relations

Yulin Dong

Product

Senior Technical Product Manager

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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