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Reece Merrick

Managing Director, Middle East and Africa at Ripple

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Reece Merrick is Managing Director, Middle East and Africa at Ripple, responsible for leading the company’s business operations and strategic initiatives from Ripple’s Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dubai. Reece has worked in the fintech and payments space for over 10 years, specializing in foreign exchange risk management and building cross-border payment solutions for large financial institutions and businesses.

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Matt Hamilton

Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.

Don Steul

Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.

Danny Aranda

Danny Aranda is the co-founder of PartyDAO and previously the Managing Director of Ripple Europe. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nischal Belthan

Nischal Belthan is the founder of Ballast Markets and previously founded Blink AI and Superchargd. He also worked at Unstoppable Domains, Ripple, Together Labs, and Deloitte. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai.

Arthur Britto

Arthur Britto is a co-founder of Ripple.

Vince Tejada

Vince Tejada is currently the Head of Treasury & Strategic Finance at Bastion.Previously he worked at Ripple and J.P. Morgan.

Stefan Thomas

Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.

Ron Hammond

Ron Hammond is currently the Head of Policy and Advocacy at Wintermute.Previously he worked at Ripple and Blockchain Association.

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Amir Mehrbakhsh

Amir Mehrbakhsh is the marketing director of the Sui Foundation, and previously worked at Celo and Ripple.