Team
Project Lead: Dr Damilola Oguntola
Experience: 6 years experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Binance,NEAR, Polygon, Unilend and 15 other projects in areas in relation to project management, community building and Marketing. He is the Co-founder of Blockchain BUK, a member of stakeholders in Blockchain association of Nigeria, one of the executives of Arewa Blockchain Community, a previous COO of two startups, Former team lead and Head of Partnership at NEAR NIGERIA and finally a Community Lead and Business Developer for Octopus network Africa. A certified Project Manager with Google and was once a COO of an AI BASED PROJECT called Poly186. He currently holds a MBBS degree.
Technical Lead: José Dimas Luján
Experience 3 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked mostly as a frontends dev, app developer and technical lead with NEAR education and ICP. He worked as an ICP instructor where he was tasked with community building and recruitment is also into project management and community building with multiple bachelor degrees in programming and engineering.
Marketing Lead: Ogbuehi Miracle J
Experience: 4 years experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Huobi, FTX as a marketing ambassador, Head of Admin at Ginakev Digital Academy, Marketing Lead and PR at NEUTRINOS CHAIN PoAI. Has a bachelor of science in Biochemistry
Financial Lead: Paul Oguntola
Experience :4 years experience in the cryptosphere, worked with more than 15 projects as an Ambassador, currently the community Lead of NEAR NIGERIA and the former CFO of Poly186. He finished with a first class in Accounting and currently doing his masters in business administration
Head of Community: Boon Quan
Experience: 3yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with more than 3 different blockchain projects as community Lead and Partnerships. He holds a Bachelor degree in quantity survey and a active member of Octopus Guild
Africa Community Lead: Philip Asare
Experience: 8 years experience in the cryptosphere, worked with several blockchain projects as a country ambassador, community builder and event planner, grew up the nano Ghana and Africa communities and currently the founder and host of Blockchain submit Africa
Russia/Ukraine Community Lead: Yevhenii Shutov
Experience: 5 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, Co-founded Eugene YouTube, worked with Octopus Network, Automata, NEAR and several other projects as a translator and community builder.
Turkish Community Lead: Matyakubov Nurull
Experience: 6 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with several projects including NEAR and Octopus Network in relation to community building, marketing, translation, social media management and content creation. He owns several Turkish Telegram crypto communities numbering in thousands and also YouTube channels
Latam(Portuguese)Community Lead: Anderson Rossoni
Experience: 4 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, he is the current lead for Aurora and Near Brazil,worked with as Octopus Network ambassador. He holds a Bachelor in engineering and wishes to lead the Portuguese side of the Latam Community
Latam (Spanish) Community Lead: Cesar Incio
Experience: 4 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with NEAR Latam and Aurora Latam teams, currently the social media manager for Octopus Network. He holds a Bachelor degree in translation and interpretation. Speak in French, Spanish and English.
Malaysia Community Lead: Yujing Wong
Experience: 7 years experience in the cryptosphere, as an investor and in community/venture building, co-founding Tess Network and a youth NGO focused on advocating crypto. Started several NFT projects and contributed to Web3 projects in Malaysia. Malaysian Ambassador for Octopus Network and Founding Member of Avium World. Founder and CEO of FarmDirect.my, an online platform connecting farmers to end buyers. Extensive experience as co-founder and COO in several startups, covering restaurant yield-management, social enterprise, education, travel, and recruitment. 5 years technical experience in operations and project management, as a Field Engineer and Remote Operations Engineer in offshore oil & gas production for a Fortune 500 energy company. Yujing holds a Bachelor and Master of Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, and speaks in Malay, English, and Mandarin.
Ecosystem growth strategist: Buğra Ayan
Experience : Authored several impactful publications in the field of informatics, including books such as "Internet Secrets," "Mobile App Development," and "Smart Contract Development with Moonbeam."
Made significant contributions through publications on various topics, including social networks, coding, and augmented reality.
Recognized for innovative and impactful work with awards such as the Social Entrepreneurship award, the Informatics Service award, and the Best Instructor award from Udemy. Shared expertise and experiences at conferences.
Delivered TEDx Talks on topics such as "Curiosity" and "The Internet is Magic."
Buğra Ayan's remarkable journey in the field of informatics includes extensive academic achievements, a wide range of publications, and recognition through prestigious awards. His contributions have been invaluable to the advancement of the field, and his expertise has been shared at conferences and through engaging TEDx Talks.
Business Dev 1: Alex Choong
Experience: 6 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, built his personal mining rig, investor in several web3 projects, strong advocate for use of blockchain in Asia. He is the COO of metapac group which is a Guild that heavy deal with web3 venture investing, connections and education
Business Dev 2: Pavel Fedorov
Experience : 15 yrs experience as an investor specialist and advisor, been involved with various web3 projects as a business Developer, regional representative and an investment analyst.
Lead designer: Evelyn Sample
Experience : 4 years experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Binance, Okex and 13 other projects as a graphic designer, she is currently the lead designer for NEAR NIGERIA, AI DAO of NEAR and was the community manager of Octopus network Africa. She is an active member of Octopus Guild and won the logo contest of Octopus Guild, she has more than 4 years experience as a graphic designer and has used more than 10 tools in relation to graphic designing. She holds a BSc in Microbiology
Graphic designer/video editor: Sanusi Muhammad Sulaiman
Experience: 3 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Octopus Network Africa, Octopus Guild, spin and others as a graphic designer and a video editor. Currently completing his college degree in engineering.
Social media manager: Dr Kabiru Hussaini
Experience: 5yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Unilend and five more projects as an Ambassador, social media manager for Octopus Network Africa and Social media manager for Near Protocol Nigeria. Currently holds an MBBS degree and is a certified social media marketer.
Assist Social media manager: Hannah Sotto
Experience: 2 yrs experience in the cryptosphere, worked with Octopus Network and wonderhero as a social media manager and community manager. She is currently in process of obtaining her bachelor degrees in accounting
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