The Ava Labs
Leadership Team

Emin Gün Sirer

Engineering

CEO

Kevin Sekniqi

Engineering

Co-Founder

John Wu

Business Development

President

Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo

Business Development

Chief Strategy Officer

Charley Cooper

Operations

Chief Operating Officer

Chris Lavery

Operations

CFO

John Nahas

Business Development

Chief Business Officer

Stephen Buttolph

Product

Chief Protocol Architect

Lee Schneider

Operations

General Counsel

Wee Ming Choon

Legal

Chief Legal Officer

Nick Mussallem

Product

Avacloud, CEO

Akash Gupta

Product

Core Wallet

Lydia Chiu

Business Development

SVP of Corporate Development

Karen OBrien

Marketing

VP of Marketing

Corey Wendling

Engineering

VP of Engineering

Morgan Krupetsky

Business Development

Sr Director of Ecosystem Growth, Institutional

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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