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Team

Who we are

We don’t (usually) wear capes, but we’re pretty serious about trying to save the world.

Ryan Gledhill

Co-Founder & CEO
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  • Ex-CTO at Ivno, which was sold to enterprise blockchain powerhouse R3 in 2020

  • Successful serial entrepreneur

  • Led the ICO of FunFair in 2017

  • Blockchain & cryptocurrency thought leader; speaker at major blockchain conferences

  • Cat dad

Joe Hargreaves

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Linkedin Twitter

  • Former senior sustainability consultant at CarbonBit

  • 10+ years of sustainability & carbon market expertise

  • Identified £50m+ of carbon-reducing projects

  • Likes: Decentralisation, MMA, Mountains

  • Dislikes: People who cheat in pub quizzes

Adam Dry

Co-Founder & CTO
Linkedin Twitter

  • Led Ivno’s engineering team to build a tokenisation engine for tier 1 banks

  • Exited Ivno to R3 who build Corda

  • Veteran in creating multi-million pound projects from scratch

  • Most Improved Zoom background

Hayley Moller

Founding Team & Chief Marketing Officer
Linkedin Twitter

  • Former VP of Strategic Communications at GPG (now Finsbury Glover Hering)

  • INSEAD MBA

  • 10+ years of facilitating climate action campaigns effective in 150+ countries

  • Environmental science degree & think tank background

  • Token Californian

Nicolas Alexander

Head of Partnerships & Policy
Linkedin Twitter

  • 6+ years as a diplomat and consultant in multilateral affairs and international development

  • Principal at an early-stage investing private fund

  • IESE MBA

  • Co-creator of OrgyDAO

Scott Gledhill

Head of Product
Linkedin Twitter

  • Accomplished software developer out of Makers Academy in London

  • Big data experience, with focus on sustainability and higher ed

  • Cryptocurrency tech enthusiast and investor

  • Professional online poker player, largest Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) winner of all time on PKR.com

Brandon

Senior Solidity Developer
Twitter

  • Smart contract experience in a variety of web3 topics: defi protocols, on-chain gaming, and nft project launches

  • Previously 5 years in corporate credit risk modeling and data analysis

  • Likes: Ice hockey, boxing, strategy games

  • Dislikes: Twitter threads

Ivan Djukic

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Linkedin

  • Experienced full-stack engineer

  • Crypto and fintech background

  • Passionate about technology, innovation and challenging tasks

  • Has worked with companies in healthcare, crypto and finance

  • Loves cooking, reading and traveling

Simonas Jakubonis

Senior DevOps Engineer
Linkedin

  • Platform engineer

  • Deep interest in Cloud Computing and Automation

  • Started career as software engineer and moved to DevOps area

  • Helping engineering teams build scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure since 2018

Contessa Cooper

Community Engagement Manager
Linkedin Twitter

  • ReFi enthusiast leveraging blockchain technology to drive social impact

  • Experienced community builder and marketing professional

  • Lifelong learner seeking opportunities to improve her skill set

  • Her trusty sidekicks, FahFo the cat, accompanies her on all her adventures

Avi Slavin

Senior Sales Consultant
Linkedin

  • 20 years of AdTech, fintech, blockchain + carbon experience

  • Advisor to Fortune 500 corporations

  • Entrepreneurial/Start-up experience including the completion of successful raise from SoftBank

  • Husband, and Father of 2 wonderful children

    • Passionate about climate change, carbon markets, growth marketing, all things AI

Vitalii Kushnir

Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Full-stack developer

  • Passionate about the newest technologies, motivated by challenging goals

  • Experience in healthcare, crypto and retail projects

  • Loves traveling, crossfit and trying any new activities

  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics

  • Speaks 4 languages

Olga Berdnikova

QA Engineer
Linkedin

  • Experienced QA Engineer

  • Solar energy, oil trading and payments industry background

  • Passionate about new technologies, software quality and positive impact

  • Likes history, winter sports, mountaineering and classical music

Cal Barry

Technical Architect & Lead Developer
Linkedin

  • 5+ years as a Fullstack/DevOps Engineer building microservices and POCs

  • Experience in Aviation data, blockchain and memes

  • Love CrossFit (learning to be less bad at Olympic Weightlifting), movies and being a bit of a nerd

Kobi Omenaka

Growth Marketer
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  •  A seasoned Growth and Digital Marketing Lead, who's worked with industries such as Fintech, Health, Gambling, and Oil and Gas.
  • A Full Stack Digital Marketing Specialist too, with expertise in SEO, PPC, content marketing, social media, and web design.
  • Kobi is all about bringing people together and leading teams. 

Saudamini Sharma

Strategic Initiatives Manager
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  •  Consulted Fortune 10 tech giant at Monitor Deloitte across digital finance transformation, Cloud FinOps and Cash Flow Reporting optimization for Investor Relations
  • Future Schwarzman Scholar at Tsingua University, Beijing; Econ and Math background. 
  • Can be found art gazing, reading philosophy or attempting French rap.

Emma Bennett

Head of Operations
Linkedin

  • 18 years experience in operations and finance roles

  • Worked in European/UK parliaments and around Westminster

  • Lives on family farm in Oxfordshire

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Advisors

Arjun Arora

Orderly Network, Woo Network
Linkedin Twitter

  • Current COO of Orderly Network

  • VP of Ecosystem at WOO Network focused on DeFi & Trading partnerships and integrations

  • Previously spent 8 years + at Google in a senior leadership capacity building business development and strategy teams across EMEA

  • Crypto native and a seasoned blockchain investor & advisor

Louis Amira

Stripe
Linkedin Twitter

  • Crypto Partnerships at Stripe

  • Former Director of Data Partners at Chainlink

  • Previously partnership and product management at Google, then accepted into in-house start-up incubator Area 120

  • Early work in smart grid and clean energy tech

  • Studied behavioural economics @ Harvard

Ricardo Bayon

Carbon Markets Expert
Linkedin Twitter

  • Senior leader with decades of experience in voluntary carbon markets and international environmental finance and policy

  • Founder of Ecosystem Marketplace

  • Provided early input to the standards that eventually became Verra, American Carbon Registry and Climate Action Reserve

Daniel Halstead

Serial Entrepreneur
Linkedin Twitter

  • Former CEO/Co-Founder of Ivno, which was sold to R3

  • Entrepreneur with 20 years forming, building, and scaling high-growth businesses

  • Founder of Kite Group, which reached Sunday Times Fasttrack 27th fastest growth company in the UK within 3 years of launch

Etienne Michelin

Financial Services Regulation
and Economics
Linkedin

  • Partner at a leading consulting firm, advising financial services firms on regulation, strategy and transformation

  • Helping UK / EU fintechs to scale up sustainably and meet regulatory standards

  • Background as an economist at the Financial Services Authority and at NERA

  • MSc in Economics (UCL) and MSc in Finance (ESSEC, France)

David Nicol

Fintech Leader and Entrepreneur
Linkedin

  • Fintech business leader and entrepreneur with deep experience scaling innovative businesses and leading high performing teams

  • Former Co-Founder and CEO of LedgerEdge, a cutting-edge trading ecosystem for institutional fixed income markets

  • Former work in markets and payments product management, management consulting, and emerging markets business models