Who we are / Our Team
Our Team
Blending technical mastery and professional stability, the Algorand team consists of internationally recognized researchers, mathematicians, cryptographers, and economists along with proven business leaders from global technology companies.
Executive Team
Silvio Micali
Founder
Steve Kokinos
CEO
W. Sean Ford
COO
Leadership Team
Pablo Azar
Chief Economist
Keli Callaghan
Head of Marketing
Jing Chen
Head of Theory Research and Chief Scientist
Yossi GIlad
Head of Systems Research & Chief Technology Officer
Sergey Gorbunov
Head of Cryptography
Chris Hurley
Head of Investor Relations and Business Development
Naveed Ihsanullah
Head of Engineering Research
Regina O’Brien
Head of People & Talent
Paul Riegle
Head of Product
Georgios Vlachos
Head of Mathematics
Nickolai Zeldovich
Head of Distributed Systems
Economic Advisors
Christian Catalini
Andrew Lo
Joseph Naggar
Kenneth Rogoff
Darius Sit
Sharlyn Wu
Scientific Advisors
Costantinos Daskalakis
Shafi Goldwasser
Maurice Herlihy
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Cryptocurrency Advisors
Joseph Bonneau
Jill Carlson
Alessandro Chiesa
Naval Ravikant