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Total Funding: $15M
Total Funding: $7.2M
Total Funding: $3M
Total Funding: $24M
Total Funding: $24M
Total Funding: $4M
Total Funding: $10M
Total Funding: $2.4M
Total Funding: $1.7M
Total Funding: $1M
2024
Hadron is a global community of founders building with Polygon using any of Polygon's products eg aggLayer, cdk, zkevm or PoS. I am responsible for building Hadron including: - Entity structuring and organisation - Managing finance and operations - Hiring the current five member team - Building the 12,000 square foot build space in Dubai - Running the Station3 facility in New York - Running online and IRL events - Website, branding and online marketing - Building a pipeline of founders and leveraging the resources of the Polygon network state to help founders succeed
2019
2019
I have invested in quality crypto startups from time to time and I serve as an experienced resource for founders when they need an opinion or advice in terms of growth, strategy and operations
2022 - 2024
2022 - 2024
Advisor in the founders office enabling and facilitating various strategic projects across different functions including recruitment of key personnel, sourcing and summarising market intelligence, contributing to narratives and positioning, reviewing various work products, making introductions and initiating strategic business relationships and being a sounding board for founders, executives and team members.
2020 - 2022
2020 - 2022
In this role I was responsible for: - Setting up business development operations across institutional, retail and HNW partners - Being the institutional spokesperson for Aave at events, podcasts and in media - Contributing to community initiatives such as the Aave grants program - Supporting recruitment key senior personnel - Initiating, qualifying and closing key partnerships - Leading the delivery of Aave Arc - the permissioned Aave instance - Being a contributor to the overall protocol strategy - Contributing and driving TVL growth from $3b to $30b including $30m in the institutional Aave Arc instance
2020 - 2020
2020 - 2020
I was responsible for Banking partnerships in the UK and Europe. - Grew fiat trading volume from zero to $400m daily over six months - Initiated and closed engagement with Banks and fiat onramps - Supported UK and EU KYC and AML compliance implementation for Binance UK and Binance Dot Com including engagement with external law firms and regulators.
2017 - 2019
2017 - 2019
- End to end sales and business development in the Banking and Financial Services sector - Contributed to the growth and operations of various ConsenSys spokes and overall strategy of the organisation
2015 - 2017
2015 - 2017
Built and led the global blockchain practice including thoughtleadership, closing many of the biggest sales and delivering the projects
2010 - 2014
2010 - 2014
Managed large (from 30 to 300 people) engineering teams in Risk to deliver mission critical solutions in Market and Credit Risk
2005 - 2009
2005 - 2009
Managed various engineering and modeling teams in Tokyo, NYC and Bengaluru to deliver mission critical solutions in risk and compliance
1997 - 2005
1997 - 2005
Java/C++ developer at Bellcore, Eclipse Networks and Infosys. Locations: New Jersey and Bengaluru