About The Foundation

Jørgen Ouaknine

Jørgen has  over 20 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. Currently serving as the Group Head of Innovation and Digital Assets at Euroclear, Jørgen spearheads transformative initiatives that position the organization at the forefront of the financial sector.

Jørgen thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, leveraging his expertise in driving innovation, digital transformation, and managing complex digital assets. His leadership style is defined by an entrepreneurial mindset, a results-driven approach, and a commitment to aligning transformative strategies with global market demands.

Before joining Euroclear, Jørgen held several senior leadership roles in international retail banking, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, bank restructuring, and digital innovation. Notably, he served as CEO of two BNP Paribas subsidiaries in Morocco—DIGIFI, a mobile wallet platform, and DIGISERV, a digital factory. There, he led the development of a B2C ecosystem, accelerating the adoption of innovative digital services and advancing financial inclusion in the region.

Yuval Rooz

Yuval Rooz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset, a New York-based technology company best known for DAML, its open-source smart contract language. As CEO, Yuval leads the company’s vision and strategy to drive innovation in the digital asset and blockchain technology space.

Before founding Digital Asset, Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk at DRW and later joined DRW Investment Group, the venture capital arm of the Chicago-based trading firm. Earlier in his career, Yuval worked as a trader and developer at Citadel, gaining hands-on experience in trading, engineering, and startup investments. His background also includes leading engineering teams and managing complex operations.

Yuval holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives and works in New York City, where he is also an avid cyclist.

Specializing in capital raising, contract negotiation, program management, and operational strategy, Yuval brings expertise in diverse areas such as tax structures, transfer pricing, and setting up foreign entities. He is proficient in programming languages and tools including Python, C++, R, Matlab, as well as Linux and Windows operating systems.

Amy Kalnoki

Amy Kalnoki is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Bitwave, the #1 digital asset finance platform for enterprises.

Bitwave is bringing institutional-grade finance, accounting, and tax compliance to the Canton ecosystem, ensuring finance leaders can track, categorize, and report on every transaction with confidence – all with SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.

As a seasoned entrepreneur and operator, Amy is a leading voice at the intersection of crypto accounting, on-chain tax reporting, and financial compliance.

Amy has spent years helping crypto-native and traditional businesses scale their finance operations to meet the demands of on-chain complexity. Her expertise spans everything from tax automation to ERP integration, making her a sought-after authority on how enterprises can stay compliant while moving fast.

Before Bitwave, Amy co-founded and led Synata, an enterprise search startup acquired by Cisco in 2016. Today, she brings that same focus on innovation and enterprise scalability to Bitwave, empowering finance teams to manage digital assets with the same confidence and clarity as FIAT.

Amy has been featured on global stages at ETH Denver, Consensus, CBC Summit, NFT NYC, Messari Mainnet and more. In 2024, she was recognized with a CrossTech Innovation Award for her work driving the future of on-chain finance.

https://bitwave.io/

Chris Zuehlke

Chris Zuehlke is a Partner at DRW, where he serves as the Global Head of Cumberland, a global leader in crypto assets and a subsidiary of DRW. Mr. Zuehlke brings extensive experience in building trading operations from the ground up. His expertise spans software development, trade research, compliance, operations, market structure, and regulatory design. Under his leadership, Cumberland has solidified its position as a market leader in the rapidly evolving crypto assets space.

German Soto Sanchez

Germán A. Soto Sanchez is the Chief Product and Strategy Officer, a direct report to the CEO, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team for Broadridge Financial Solutions. Broadridge is an S&P500 company with a market cap of $24B+ and over 15,000 associates worldwide that is a global financial technology leader providing investor communications and technology-driven solutions to financial institutions, broker dealers, asset and wealth managers and corporate issuers.

Prior to Broadridge, Germán was the President and Global Head of Corporate Development of Cloud9 Technologies, a global leading fintech which was acquired by Symphony Communications. Cloud9 Technologies is a cloud-based SaaS voice communications and data platform for institutional voice traders that was voted a CB Insights top 250 Fintech for 3 years in a row. Cloud9’s technology handles millions of voice trader communications per day from a network of over 5,000 global institutional users.

Prior to Cloud9, Germán led Utilities strategic investments for JPMorgan Chase. As Executive Director of Strategic Investments, Germán focused on the sourcing, diligence, and execution of early-stage investments in businesses whose solutions were of strategic importance to JPMorganChase. Previously, Germán was the Head of M&A and interim CFO for a bank holding company launched to acquire failed/distressed financial institutions such as banks, specialty finance companies and credit providers. He was also a Principal at AIC Private Equity, where he helped lead a capital raise of $250M from investors such as the European Investment Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Verizon for a fund focused on control investments in Financial Services and Telecommunications companies. Prior to AIC Private Equity, Germán was at McKinsey & Co. Inc. where he was a member of the Financial Institutions Group. Germán received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Jack Yang

Jack began as an aircraft engineer, drawn to the precision and safety of aerospace systems. He later applied that discipline to digital assets, building APAC’s largest crypto quant fund database and leading research at TokenInsight. In 2021, he founded LTP to drive institutional adoption. Today, he leads LTP as a top global prime broker, delivering secure, regulated infrastructure across execution, settlement, custody, lending, and financing.

James Lang

James Lang leads the investment team for Liberty City Ventures and is a member of the investment committee. The team performs market and competitive analysis within the blockchain and crypto space and conducts due diligence on prospective investments. The team also monitors portfolio company activity and performance. Mr. Lang has been with Liberty City Ventures since inception. He initially served as an internal consultant for companies incubated by LCV. In that capacity, Mr. Lang ran exchange operations for Paxos while serving as head of the OTC Trading Desk and Lead Institutional Client Relationship Manager. Then he participated in the launch of Lukka where he was Director of Operations.

Mr. Lang is also a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. The committee manages a $175 million portfolio which has produced top decile returns during his term.

Previously, Mr. Lang was portfolio manager and a Principal of Cashel Capital, a top performing equity long/short fund focused on the real estate sector. During Mr. Lang’s tenure Cashel Capital posted positive results for every full year period, including +25.3% net in the crisis year of 2008. Prior to joining Cashel Capital, Mr. Lang was an analyst and the head trader for Washburne Capital Management, a merger arbitrage hedge fund. He began his investment management career as a trader at Guard Hill Capital, a risk arbitrage hedge fund. He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Columbia University, and a Master of Business Administration with a dual major in finance and accounting from New York University. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Jonathan Mayeur

As Head of Product at IntellectEU, Jonathan focuses on building technology solutions that enable more efficient and transparent global financial markets. During past six years, he worked on several payments and blockchain projects spanning capital markets, telco, and supply chain. Currently, Jonathan leads the development and implementation of the Catalyst Product Suite, a comprehensive solution that empowers institutions to modernize payments and adopt digital assets at scale by tackling the infrastructure and integration needs. The solution is actively used by participants on the Canton Network to support their operations.

John O’Neill

John has more than 20 years of experience in financial services. He is HSBC’s Group Head of Digital Assets and Currencies, responsible for the bank’s approach to CBDCs, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies and asset tokenisation. John is responsible for HSBC Orion, the propriety digital assets platform that financial institutions and corporations are able to use to issue digital bonds on blockchain. Prior to joining HBSC, John held various roles at ICE Futures Europe (previously the London International Financial Futures Exchange – LIFFE), finally becoming head of the FICC business.

Dr Johnna Powell

Dr. Johnna Powell is Managing Director, and Head of Technology, Research and Innovation at DTCC. Within this role she drives external and internal innovation through strategic thought leadership, enterprise-wide advocacy, collaborative sponsorship and execution. She has driven instrumental impact in AI, Digital Assets & web3, and Emerging Tech & Next-Gen Capabilities at DTCC. She drives the AI transformation at DTCC, including defining the AI strategy, running execution of enterprise-wide prioritized use cases, establishing AI policies, governance and enablement teams (in close partnership with every DTCC department), responsible for democratizing AI and onboarding impactful GenAI technologies. She also drives enterprise-wide AI upskilling programs and industry-wide innovation events such as hackathons and showcases. Dr. Powell also leads the team responsible for designing, building and executing DTCC’s Digital Asset Launchpad, which also led the technical due diligence that enabled DTCC’s first blockchain acquisition and integration. Dr. Powell recently was listed among the World Federation of Exchanges’ Top Women Leaders for 2025 and the CoinDesk Top 50 Women in Web3 and AI for 2025. She currently serves on the Boards of Fnality, Inc. and serves as the Chair of the Board for both Canton Foundation and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.

In addition to her work at DTCC, Johnna was the Global Co-Head of ConsenSys NFT and Head of US Professional Services at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain and web3 software company, where she served multiple Fortune 100 clients on product design, development and launch. Her work included bringing to market a carbon credit trading platform with a global alliance of 4 banks, designing a digital securities issuance and lifecycle management platform with 10 of the largest global banks, and launching an NFT ticketing and collection platform with Sports Illustrated and several other Fortune 100 companies. Under her leadership, the ConsenSys NFT team spearheaded several high-profile endeavors in NFT collections across industries, including art, entertainment and music, including marquis collections such as Damien Hirst’s: The Currency Project and The Merge: Regenesis.

Prior to that, Johnna was a Vice President and Head of User Engagement within GLG, and senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on corporate strategy and commercial engagements including marketing & sales optimization and go-to-market strategies.

Dr. Powell holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, where she conducted research in millimeter-wave imaging systems and Ultra-Wideband (“5G”) antennas for military applications. While at MIT, she won the IEEE International Best Paper Award for her research, along with a patent for her designs. In addition, BMW used her designs and prototypes in their Ultra-Wideband systems testing.

Joris Delanoue

Joris Delanoue is Co-Founder and CEO of Fairmint, the leader in onchain equity infrastructure, powering the next generation of private capital markets. Fairmint enables companies to issue, manage, and transfer equity natively onchain with full regulatory compliance, laying the foundation for a new era of programmable, regulated DeFi.Fairmint co-initiated the Open Cap Table Protocol, processing over $1.2 billion in equity onchain, and turning cap tables into smart contracts. With this milestone, Fairmint joined the ranks of pioneering projects which entered the “$1 billion club” in tokenized real-world assets, signaling growing adoption for regulated and onchain infrastructure.

Fairmint also serves as the first fully onchain SEC-registered Transfer Agent.Prior to founding Fairmint, Joris built and exited two technology ventures in Europe. He later joined Singularity University in Silicon Valley, where he focused on applying emerging distributed ledger technology to regulated financial systems. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of fintech, policy, and crypto/blockchain infrastructure, he brings both entrepreneurial execution and regulatory fluency to market. Joris contributes to the development of onchain equity rails across both public blockchains – to embrace the composability of DeFi- and privacy-enabled blockchain – to support private companies and institutional finance requirements.

Joris is an active voice in ongoing regulatory discussions around blockchain-based financial infrastructure. He has participated in SEC roundtable and authored formal submission to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, advocating for clear frameworks that support self-custody with built-in KYC/AML, onchain investor protections, and non-custodial regulated roles such as broker-dealers and transfer agents. His work reflects a pragmatic path forward: one that embeds compliance into code and unlocks the full potential of onchain capital markets at institutional scale.

Justin Peterson

Justin Peterson is the Chief Technology Officer of Tradeweb Markets LLC, where he oversees the development of all trading platforms, infrastructure, and cybersecurity on a global scale. Appointed CTO in April 2020, he leads the firm’s technological strategy and innovation to support its position as a leader in electronic trading.

Previously, Mr. Peterson served as Managing Director and Head of Institutional Technology at Tradeweb, responsible for advancing the firm’s electronic platforms and trading systems. Since joining Tradeweb in 1999, he has driven the development of pricing and trading software, managed the global support team, and led the European technology group. A long-standing member of Tradeweb’s management team, he has also served on its Global Operating Committee for many years.

With more than three decades of experience in computer science and development, including over 20 years in financial services, Mr. Peterson brings extensive expertise to his role. Before joining Tradeweb, he was Vice President at Citibank, where he managed the development of web-based customer delivery and payment systems and improved electronic funds transfer systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at NYNEX Science and Technology on telephone network planning software and at Hughes Aircraft Company on computer-aided integrated circuit design tools.

Mr. Peterson holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, as well as a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kinga Bosse

Kinga Bosse is a seasoned professional with a dynamic career spanning over two decades in the finance, insurtech, and fintech sectors. She has held diverse roles, including innovation investments, M&A, and finance positions at major industry players such as Houlihan Lokey, AIG, and State Street. Her experience extends to senior executive positions, where she served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Lukka, driving transformative financial strategies and fund raising activities. Most recently, Kinga has transitioned into the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at MPCH, a leading growth stage security firm for businesses and government agencies, marking her entrance into the field of physical & cyber security.

Madani Boukalba

Madani Boukalba is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of T-RIZE Group, a market infrastructure company operating on the Canton Network. T-RIZE provides tokenization, collateral and lifecycle infrastructure across capital markets, private credit, real estate, funds, digital bonds, equity and securitized debt. Its architecture is designed to integrate with custodians, central securities depositories and trading venues.

T-RIZE is a Premier Member of the Canton Foundation and operates a validator and two Featured Apps on the network. Madani sits on the Foundation’s Board and its Collateral Subcommittee, chaired by DTCC, where he works on collateral mobility, tokenized repo and financing.

T-RIZE is the industry partner of an Industrial Research Chair at École de technologie supérieure, supported by the Government of Canada and led by Professor Kaiwen Zhang. The Chair focuses on privacy-preserving federated learning for risk analytics. Madani is co-inventor of the related U.S. patent-pending architecture.

Previously, he spent 13 years as a Senior Trader at CDPQ, one of Canada’s largest pension fund managers, specializing in complex derivatives, collateral optimization and large-scale portfolio transitions.

Mark Wendland

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canton Strategic Holdings, Mark Wendland oversees the company’s digital asset treasury strategy, including its Super Validator operations and ongoing investment in activities that support the Canton Network. Prior to joining the company through its digital asset strategy launch in November 2025, Mark Wendland was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at DRW, a global trading firm with decades of experience across diverse markets and asset classes, including commodities, real estate, venture capital, and crypto assets. Mark joined DRW as its Global Head of Treasury in 2019. Previously he led U.S. Operations, Global Fixed Income Finance, Counterparty Strategy and Relationship Management at Citadel.

Patrick Corker

Patrick Corker is a Managing Director on the Digital Assets team at BNY. In this role, he is responsible for helping lead the firm’s pioneering efforts to bridge traditional finance with the evolving world of blockchain-based assets. His work supports BNY’s mission to deliver secure, resilient, and innovative digital asset solutions across custody, tokenization, and data integration.

Prior to joining BNY, Patrick was Vice President and Treasurer at Circle, where he led global treasury, finance, and corporate development functions. He played a key role in Circle’s growth as a leader in the digital finance space, including the development of liquidity frameworks and risk management strategies for stablecoins and tokenized assets.

Earlier in his career, Patrick held leadership roles at LedgerX (now part of MIAX) and Goldman Sachs and began his professional journey as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche.

Patrick brings a unique blend of traditional financial expertise and digital asset innovation, making him a key contributor to BNY strategy in shaping the future of finance.

Ryan Trinkle

Ryan Trinkle is a co-founder and partner at Obsidian, a leading technology company providing consulting and node hosting services in the Canton ecosystem. A long-time contributor to the functional programming and open-source ecosystems, Ryan is best known for his work on Reflex FRP, a groundbreaking library that enabled Haskell (the programming language that Canton Network’s DAML smart contract language is based on) to enter new markets based on real-time data flow. Ryan is also on the board of several open source projects, including the Haskell Foundation and the NixOS Foundation.

At Obsidian, Ryan has led large-scale projects spanning decentralized finance, blockchain infrastructure, and compliance technology. His experience bridges deep technical expertise with strategic product design and regulatory alignment.

As a board member of the Canton Foundation, Ryan chairs the Audit and Finance Committee and is a member of the Accountability Committee, and works with others throughout the organization to achieve the Network’s goals and build alignment among its many stakeholders.

Veronica Augustsson

Veronica Augustsson is a Partner at 7RIDGE, a sector-focused asset manager specializing in transformative technology for the capital markets. In her role, she leverages her extensive experience in technology and finance to support innovation and growth within the industry.

Prior to joining 7RIDGE, Veronica was the CEO of Cinnober, the leading independent provider of technology solutions for trading and clearing venues. Under her leadership, the company significantly strengthened its position as a preferred provider for the world’s top financial institutions and as an employer of choice for industry talent. Before her tenure as CEO, Veronica spent over a decade leading Cinnober’s software development and sales functions, bringing a unique blend of technical expertise and business development acumen to the organization.

Veronica is passionate about the intersection of technology and finance and has been recognized for her leadership and commitment to diversity in the industry. She was named in Institutional Investor’s 2018 Trading Tech 40, Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, and VA.se’s Top 10 Most Powerful CEOs in Sweden.

Yiannis Varelas

Yiannis leads Five North, a proprietary trading and venture studio built from years of engineering, market research, and disciplined risk-taking – on first principles, not consensus.

The firm designs, trades, and builds across fintech, data, and crypto, with a core focus on developing infrastructure for the Canton Network. Five North creates foundational building blocks that others use to develop decentralized financial applications and markets.

Amanda Martin

A strategic engineering and operations leader with deep experience building and governing large scale open source and institutional ecosystems, Amanda Martin serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Canton Foundation. In this role, she oversees program execution, governance frameworks, and operational strategy that enable Canton to operate as trusted, neutral infrastructure for institutional grade digital assets and capital markets activity. Her work focuses on aligning technical systems, incentives, and organizational design to support sustainable growth across a globally distributed network of validators, developers, and member institutions.

Prior to Canton, Amanda held leadership roles at the Linux Foundation, guiding strategy and execution across multiple global foundations spanning security, hardware, data science, and formal methods. She led board level planning, governance design, and multi million dollar programs, helping scale community led initiatives into enterprise aligned ecosystems. Earlier in her career, she worked as a software engineer and developer advocate, bringing a strong technical foundation and executive perspective to building resilient, mission driven technology communities.

Liron Tenzer

Liron Tenzer is an accomplished finance executive and CPA with 20 years of experience spanning Big Four accounting, corporate banking, and the blockchain and digital-assets industry. As Chief Financial Officer of the Canton Foundation, she leads the Foundation’s financial strategy, operations, and governance, bringing institutional financial discipline to infrastructure designed for digital assets and capital markets.

Liron moved into blockchain in 2018, drawn by the opportunity to help an emerging technology mature into trusted financial infrastructure. Since then, her work has focused on strengthening the financial, operational, and governance foundations needed to increase trust, manage risk, and support broader institutional adoption.

Prior to joining the Canton Foundation, Liron served in senior finance leadership roles at Flipside Crypto, Aleo, and ClearX, following earlier roles at Citibank and EY. Throughout her career, she has combined financial rigor with a collaborative, service-oriented leadership approach, building high-performing teams and helping organizations execute against their missions.

Liron is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Strategy & Entrepreneurship from the College of Management Academic Studies.

Errika Papadopoulou

A capital-markets and ecosystem leader with experience spanning institutional finance and onchain infrastructure, Errika Papadopoulou serves as Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at the Canton Foundation. In this role she builds and scales the partner network that connects the Canton Network to the institutions, integrators, and protocols adopting it, designing the Foundation’s partner program from first principles across both enterprise and Web3-native ecosystems. Her work focuses on turning institutional intent into real onchain deployment, on transparent and defensible terms consistent with the Foundation’s credible-neutrality posture.

Errika spent roughly a decade in institutional capital markets at Alpha Bank and Optima Bank, working on IPOs, bond issuances, and privatizations, including mandates for the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund. She moved into Web3 at the Sui Foundation, where she stood up funding and ecosystem programs that enabled builder growth, then served as Strategic Program & Partner Manager for Onchain Finance at Mysten Labs, building institutional-grade partnerships across stablecoin, bridging, and payments infrastructure. She also held a concurrent operating mandate with the Blockchain Payments Consortium.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Errika holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics, and later earned an MSc from Alba Graduate Business School, where her thesis examined blockchain and capital-markets reform.

Jatin Pandya

Jatin Pandya manages Developer Relations at Canton Foundation, where he architects onboarding experiences, open-source Developer Toolings, and Builder Initiatives that bridge institutional-chain privacy infrastructure with the broader DeFi Developer ecosystem. His work focuses on making Canton’s unique privacy-first smart contract architecture accessible to builders, creating the right developer tooling and resources alongside working with Partner Development studios.

Prior to Canton, Jatin spent over three years building developer ecosystems across multiple Layer 1 blockchains, where he shipped core developer tools and documentation frameworks from scratch, reducing onboarding friction and accelerating ecosystem growth. His approach combines technical depth with a commitment to accessibility, believing that complex technology should be explained simply, and that the builders creating decentralized infrastructure need enablers, not gatekeepers. At Canton, that means positioning privacy infrastructure for the institutional use cases that public blockchains can’t touch.

Parth Chaturvedi

Parth Chaturvedi manages BD efforts in the APAC and Middle East regions, along with a global focus on Institutional and VC fund relationships for the Canton Foundation. His primary goal is to grow the network activity via engagements with both Institutions and early stage builders, particularly helping the latter scale and execute on their GTM Strategies. He’s also focusing on the upcoming Ecosystem Grants Fund to help potential network enablers.

Prior to Canton, Parth had a balanced mix of exeperience in Tradfi and Web3. He started as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPM. Moved into Blockchain Research within the Bank’s Kinexys unit as a Research Associate. Went on to manage OTC trade executions at the Crypto trading desk for institutional platform, FalconX. Then he headed Web3 Investments, for the Corp VC arm of CoinSwitch, followed by leading Corp Dev initiatives for India and Middle East’s largest Crypto Platform, CoinDCX. He has an MBA degree in Finance from Management Development Institute and was an Economics graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce

Teagan Buckley

Teagan leads global DeFi BD and institutional efforts in Taiwan. His focus is on identifying applications with real users and volume that can meaningfully benefit from Canton’s network effects, privacy guarantees, and settlement architecture. He owns the end-to-end partner lifecycle on Canton, from onboarding and technical alignment to ecosystem connectivity and go-to-market execution.

Prior to Canton, Teagan held business development and product roles across Web3 infrastructure and protocol teams, spanning middleware, ecosystem growth, and GTM strategy. His background combines hands-on experience working with protocol founders, enterprise partners, and internal product teams, with a strong technical foundation that enables him to bridge commercial strategy and execution. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Thomas Chou

Thomas Chou is Head of Growth, APAC, responsible for global and regional go-to-market strategy, ecosystem development, and market expansion. He brings over a decade of experience across global technology platforms and digital asset infrastructure, with leadership roles spanning the United States and international markets, including Meta, TikTok, OKX, and Aptos.

He has built and scaled growth programs globally, including the Boost Leaders Network at Meta, and was a creator of TikTok’s early marketing and commerce solutions in the U.S. and international markets. In Web3, he led product marketing and ecosystem expansion for OKX Wallet, with a focus on disciplined GTM execution, partner-led distribution, and sustainable adoption across complex regulatory environments.

Barbara Shukrun

Barbara Shukrun is a PMP-certified program and operations leader with more than a decade of experience driving large-scale organizational growth, strategic initiatives, and operational excellence across national programs. Throughout her career, she has built and scaled high-performing systems, led cross-functional teams, and implemented innovative technology-driven solutions that improve efficiency, governance, and stakeholder engagement. Most recently, Barbara served as Senior Program Manager at Alliance Marketing Partners, where she led enterprise-level program operations, spearheaded AI and workflow automation initiatives, and developed scalable infrastructure supporting significant organizational growth. Known for her collaborative leadership style and results-driven approach, Barbara brings deep expertise in program management, process optimization, and strategic execution to her new role as Senior Program Manager at the Canton Foundation.

Gino Parages

Gino joined the Canton Foundation to build out the data infrastructure that will power the Foundation’s analytics and AI capabilities. He brings 13+ years of experience across research, data science, machine learning, and data engineering, along with full-stack software engineering on both the front-end and back-end. Prior to Canton, Gino was the sole data architect at the Hedera Foundation, where he rebuilt the Foundation’s data platform and CRM infrastructure from the ground up. Before crypto, he spent the better part of a decade building data systems in healthcare and life sciences at Tendo, H1, and Pfizer. At Canton, his focus is on standing up scalable, reliable data pipelines and governance, and using that foundation to deploy automation and AI-driven tooling across the Foundation. He holds a B.S. from Florida Atlantic University.

Pedro Neves

Pedro Neves is the Community & Governance Coordinator at the Canton Foundation. He leads community engagement, validator coordination, and stakeholder communications across the ecosystem, helping foster collaboration between network participants and the Foundation.

With a background spanning Web3 community management, technical support, and IT operations, Pedro brings a unique blend of technical knowledge and community leadership. He is passionate about building engaged communities, supporting ecosystem growth, and creating effective communication channels that help drive adoption and participation across the network.