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# The Ava Labs Leadership Team

### Emin Gün Sirer

Engineering

### CEO

### Kevin Sekniqi

Engineering

### Senior Advisor for the Company

### John Wu

Business Development

### President

### Lee Schneider

Operations

### General Counsel

### Chris Lavery

Operations

### CFO

### Morgan Krupetsky

Business Development

### Director of Business Development, Institutional & Capital Markets

### Akash Gupta

Product

### VP of Core

### Nick Mussallem

Product

### AvaCloud CEO

### Stephen Buttolph

Engineering

### Chief Protocol Architect

### John Nahas

Business Development

### Chief Business Officer

### Lydia Chiu

Business Development

### VP of Business Development

### Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo

Business Development

### COO

# 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.

### Experience