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Meet Team OST
Jason Goldberg
Chief Executive Officer
Jason Goldberg is a veteran internet entrepreneur with an 18 year history of scaling products to millions of users. Since 2016 Jason’s passion has been to drive mainstream consumer adoption of blockchain technologies. Jason splits time between Berlin, Germany, Pune, India, and Hong Kong.
Sunil Khedar
Chief Technology Officer
Sunil joined forces with Nishith and Jason right out of college. Co-founder of the companies they built together including Hem.com, Fab.com, Fabulis, Social Median, True Sparrow and Montred. In 2016 Sunil founded Pepo with Jason and leads a world-class engineering team based in Pune.
Ben Bollen
Chief Blockchain Strategist
Benjamin Bollen is a physicist working to build decentralized computing systems since 2009. Benjamin previously built Hyperledger Burrow, formerly Eris-DB, as lead developer at Monax Industries, worked on the routing layer when at MaidSafe and researched computationally efficient representations of strongly correlated quantum systems at university. You can find Ben in Berlin, Germany, Brussels, Belgium and Pune, India.
Renee Wong
Chief Financial Officer & GM North America
Renee Wong is seasoned financial strategist with 10+ years experience as CFO and General Manager in high growth businesses. Her previous experience includes executive and financial leadership roles at Dashlane, Fab.com, and Pop Sugar.
Chris Dark
Chief Commercial Officer and GM APAC
Chris is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in both B2B and B2C businesses. He was previously President International at C2FO, prior to this he held key leadership positions at Atomico, AOL (advertising.com) and Bain & Co. Chris is also the Founder of GameReplays.org, an early eSports community. He remains Vice Chairman APAC for C2FO, and is an advisor to Kenetic Capital and Oriente.
Francesco Pacella
Vice President of Product
Francesco is a Product and Marketing Manager who has developed and scaled a number of projects and companies on the tech scene across Europe and Asia focusing on customer validation and development, growth, engagement, monetization, and analytics.
David Brill
General Counsel
David Brill is a FinTech pioneer and a prominent lawyer in the digital asset space. He served as a senior lawyer at Thomson Reuters and a General Counsel of Gemini, one of the first U.S. digital asset exchanges. He is a frequent columnist and speaker on cryptocurrency, blockchain and securities law issues.
Jason Banks
Lead Blockchain Engineer
From Washington D.C., Jason Banks (“Banks”), enjoys living in big cities and working on complex projects. Prior to joining the tech industry as a software developer in Berlin, Banks practiced law, primarily capital markets and finance, for Shearman & Sterling in New York, Paris, and London.
Paul J du Plessis
Business Development Director EMEA
Paul J du Plessis has 10 years experience building technology for enterprises and growing startups in fintech, insuretech and blockchain technology. Paul joins OST as the business development lead working closely with the member companies launching their own branded tokens on the OST network of networks. You can find Paul in Berlin, Germany and Pune, India.
Kedar Chandrayan
Lead Software Engineer
Kedar Chandrayan has over 7 years of experience in building scalable and robust Backend Technologies. He has a habit of asking questions and understanding the 'why' of a product / service before he builds it. He did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and Masters in Communication and Signal Processing from IIT Bombay.
Abhaykumar Singh
Engineering Lead
Abhay is a Senior Principal Software Engineer. He has experience in full stack development developing Web based SAAS Applications with all facets of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) like Requirements Analysis, System Design, Development, Deployment, Code Review, Website Scaling. He is proficient with Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Mysql, Amazon Web Services in building web applications.
Prineel Bandellu
Lead User Experience Designer
Prineel is a Lead UX Designer with 7 years of experience in designing SaaS & Consumer products from the ground up. With his user centered approach to problem solving he has designed high impact web solution with strong emotional appeal across various domains. Prineel is based in Pune, India.
Amulya Chirala
Financial Product Manager
Amulya is a Financial Product Manager. In the past, she worked with HNW portfolios and custodial data feeds. She is a trained quant and is excited about the way blockchain is making complex financial products accessible to a broader market.
Ignas Peciura
Director of the CEO Office
Ignas helps ensure the entire OST business is running smoothly. Ignas has marketing, product management, and ops experience in consumer and B2B apps and financial services. His recent work experience includes OST, Pepo, Mambu GmbH, and Barclays bank. Ignas lives in Berlin where he’s as passionate about the city as he is about his work.
Akshay Raje
Lead Software Engineer
Akshay is a lead front-end engineer and the in-house JavaScript expert. He has the expertise in cutting edge front-end technologies, PHP, WordPress and Google Apps. He's enthusiastic about trading crypto-currencies and often writes about these topics on Medium and Quora.
Balakrishna Hebbar
Director Engineering
Balakrishna is a lead engineer with 11+ years of experience. He has experience in building social media application like Social Median, eCommerce applications like Fab & Hem and mobile application like Pepo. He has a Master degree in Computer Applications from NIT Surathkal, Karnataka. He is passionate about learning new things be it a technology, economy or crypto currency.
Alpesh Modi
Lead Software Engineer
Alpesh is a lead back-end engineer and has expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails . He is a hands-on technology executive with deep technical expertise.He has a very special talent to break down complex tasks into simpler tasks and achieving them with ease. Alpesh also has great knowledge on software architecture and implementation. An incredible solution generator as well as programer.
Swaminathan Jayaraman
Lead User Experience Designer
Swaminathan Jayaraman is a product designer with a focus on digital experiences and startups. He loves to travel and backpack since taking truck rides at the age of 10. He brings the same enthusiasm, edge, and interests to design and product management. Apart from travel and design, he is scouting for junior local tennis talent in India.
Aman Barbaria
Senior Software Engineer
Aman Barbaria is a senior software engineer with 3 years of working experience in the e-commerce industry. He is passionate towards building consumer facing products. A strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer engineering from Pune University.
Juhi Vibhakar
User Experience Designer
Juhi is a UX Designer who finished her Masters at the University of St Andrews in 2017. She’s passionate about creating usable workflows and improving digital design experiences. As an avid traveller she's always planning her next getaway, or perched up somewhere to take a stunning photograph. Her other interests include trying her hand at new dishes and reading fiction literature.
Thahir Gangireddypalli
Senior Software Engineer
Thahir is a senior UI developer with 6+ years of experience. He has always been attracted to the visual and frontend aspects of web applications and builds responsive, cross browser and cross platform layouts. He's been with the team through Fab.com, Hem.com and Pepo.
Junisha Malkani
Product Manager
Junisha is awesome with people, is entrepreneurial and understands technology well. Currently she is a Product Manager and owns the complete cycle from ideation to implementation. At Fab.com she built and guided a 20 people test team through successful execution across multiple projects. She is based in Pune, India.
Jordan McDonald
Business Development Manager
Jordan brings his extensive business development experience to OST, and will work closely with our partner companies to help them launch their own branded cryptocurrencies. He gets his kicks from building new businesses and personal art projects.
Puneet Khushwani
Principal Software Engineer
Puneet graduated from Birla Institute Of Technology & Science, Pilani Campus with a bachelor's degree in InformationSystems in May, 2013. He is currently working as Principal Software Engineer. Specialties: Ruby On Rails
Marina Antonova
Business Development Manager
Marina has 7 years of experience in Business Development and Partner Management in IT and Mobile Marketing industries. She enjoys exploring cities by bike and playing the piano.
Pankaj Keswani
Principal Software Engineer
Pankaj is a Principal Software Engineer with expertise in Ruby, Ruby on rails. If you need a superb dev who builds amazing things, can spot problems a mile away, and is too much fun to work with, then Pankaj is your man. He builds great products that work, he has an eye for user experience which makes him an invaluable asset.
Deepesh Kumar Nath
Director Engineering
Deepesh has 10 years of solid IT experience in e-Commerce, retail and Financial domain. Currently designated as Director, Mobile Development and leading iOS team from past 2.6 years he is always updated with new and upcoming technologies and keen to learn more.
Aniket Ayachit
Software Engineer
Aniket Ayachit is a Mobile Application Developer working as an iOS developer in the team. After spending nearly 4 years working as iOS developer on different types of application for startups and established companies, Aniket knows what makes an application smooth and highly responsive. Aniket holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the University of Pune.
Mohit Anand
Director Blockchain Strategy Consultancy
Mohit is an experienced consultant having advised companies for close to a decade on new business cases, technologies and financing with a focus on cleantech in emerging markets. He co-founded two cleantech consultancies and led projects with international companies and investors across North America, Europe and Asia. Mohit holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Sachin Chauhan
Software Engineer
Sachin is a mobile application developer working as an Android developer in the team. He has proficiency in designing UI for android applications. He has interests in Competitive programming and likes to solve challenging programming questions and also he is an active stock market trader.
Yogesh Sawant
QA Engineer
Yogesh Sawant is a startup enthusiast with experience in testing mobile applications and web applications. He is product QA, an expert in Testing Methodologies and Product life cycles. Yogesh knows what needs to be done to make application user friendly.
Ira Merchant
Recruiting Director
Ira is an experienced talent acquisition professional. Ira has been with working on our team in Pune since 2012. Her experience and forte lie in her ability to help organisations scale rapidly while innovating recruitment practices that strengthen the people experience. She has a hands-on, action oriented approach to work.
Ashfaq Bhojani
Administration Director
Ashfaq is an experienced professional with experience in Operations Management including Facilities, Administration, Travel, Hospitality & HR across industries such as IT/ITES, Healthcare & Hospitality. With his expertise, experience & energy, Ashfaq provides strategic & tactical support critical to ensure smooth OST business operations.
Santhosh Reddy
Software Engineer
Santhosh is a startup and technology enthusiast. He joined the team as a Backend developer. He earned a degree from NIT Durgapur and always keen to learn new things. In his leisure time, Santhosh participates in online programming contests and was ranked among the top 1000 programmers on Codechef in many contests.
Ashutosh Lodhi
Senior Software Engineer
Ashutosh is a senior software engineer with 4+ years of experience in building scalable and responsive websites. He has expertise in Javascript & Frontend frameworks. He holds Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Pune University.
Somashekhar Mulimani
Principal QA Engineer
Soma is a QA Evangelist with hands on experience in Web and mobile Application Testing. He is also extremely passionate about ensuring a smooth user experience and very particular about delivering a high quality end product.
Mayur Patil
Software Engineer
Mayur is a Front-End developer who previously worked as a Full Stack developer. He is passionate about building applications using Python and Front-End technologies. Mayur holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Pune.
Drew Brownell
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
Drew has 10+ years experience as a key contributor in a number of finance and operations capacities. After beginning his career at Glencore, he pivoted to become an early finance hire at an online education startup which grew from five employees to a successful exit. He enjoys corporate finance, concerts, and comedy.
Asaf Weitzman
Global Controller
Asaf Weitzman is a seasoned NY Certified Public Accountant with 12+ years of mixed public and corporate experience in accounting, audit and tax. Asaf joined OST after working in accounting and finance leadership roles for NYC-based global tech and e-commerce start-ups. Outside of work, Asaf enjoys working on home improvement projects and spending time with his wife and 2 kids.
Paruyr Gevorgyan
Senior Blockchain Engineer
Paruyr (Pro) Gevorgyan is a technology enthusiast with a keen interest in Blockchain. As an advocate for privacy, security and openness, he is a strong believer of the promises Blockchain holds. Pro is passionate about playing chess and travelling. Originally from Yerevan, Armenia, he now lives and works in the IT heart of Europe, Berlin.
Kevin Parulekar
Business Development Director AMER
Kevin Parulekar is the Director of Business Development for OST in the Americas. He brings over 15 years of experience leading global teams in strategy consulting, fintech, and social impact. As a former tech founder and development banker, Kevin is fascinated by the potential for blockchain technologies to transform humanity.
Paul Kuveke
Blockchain Strategy Consultant
Paul gets excited by big ideas and was an early supporter of several second-generation crypto projects. He partners with OST’s North American member companies to integrate Blockchain technology solutions into their businesses. Paul joins from Booz Allen Hamilton where he helped organizations design and execute flexible business solutions.
Sarvesh Jain
Blockchain Engineer
Sarvesh, a Software Engineer, joined the Pune Team as a Blockchain Developer. He is an expert in backend development and system designing. Sarvesh loves to travel and he is an avid cyclist. In his free time, he likes to read up on the latest news in the tech industry.
Anagha Murutkar
Software Engineer
Anagha is a Software Engineer who joined the backend team. She has experience in working with Machine Learning & Image Processing. In her leisure time, she likes doing competitive coding. She has received her Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT).
Gulshan Vasnani
Blockchain Engineer
Gulshan is passionate about learning and understanding new technologies. He has more than 3 years of experience as Full-Stack Developer in technologies like Java, Hibernate, Javascript, KnouckOutJS, CSS, SASS, Ant and Jenkins. His interests include playing cricket, watching movies and listening to music.
Shlok Gilda
Software Engineer
Shlok is software engineer with a keen interest in security and Artificial Intelligence. He is passionate about building intelligent and secure applications using what the latest technology has to offer. He is a travel enthusiast who loves the outdoors. Shlok has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Pune.
Tejas Sangani
Software Engineer
Tejas is a Software Engineer who is passionate about building smooth and highly responsive applications using Front-End and Back-End technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune.
Shraddha Patil
Software Engineer
Shraddha joined OST as a front end developer. She likes learning new front-end technologies and developing applications for mobile and web. Her interests include front-end technologies, full stack and android development. She completed Engineering degree in Computer Science from PICT.
Aman Pruthi
Software Engineer
Aman is a Software engineer with 3 years of experience in Telcom industry. He is passionate about Devops tools and technologies. He is a travel enthusiast and loves endurance sports like running and cycling. He is a strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Pune.
Dhananjay Patil
Software Engineer
Dhananjay joined Pune team as Software Engineer. He is a Computer Science graduate from University of Pune with a keen interest in programming and technologies. He loves to build highly scalable applications using cutting-edge technologies. Dhananjay is also enthusiastic about soccer and trekking.
Jean Wang
Business Development Director APAC
As an ex-engineer and ex-investment banker, Jean is passionate about the latest trends in Fintech. He joins OST with over 14 years of professional experience and will lead Business Development efforts in Asia, building partnerships and helping companies unlock their growth potential. Jean holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and a MBA from the University of Chicago.
Martin Schenck
Senior Blockchain Engineer
Martin is a blockchain engineer who is bringing blockchain technology to the masses. Before joining OST, Martin was the hands-on CTO of Plugsurfing, Europe’s largest roaming platform for electric vehicle charging. He led the Plugsurfing platform from its infancies to a successful exit within five years. Martin is generally interested in advanced (software) systems and solving daring challenges.
Ankit Singh
Senior Software Engineer
Ankit Singh is a tech enthusiast. He has received engineering degree from VNIT Nagpur. His previous experience includes working with retail banking systems. Ankit likes to travel and learn about different cultures. He loves to play cricket and basketball in his spare time.
Preshita Shirke
Software Engineer
A computer science engineering graduate from VJTI, Mumbai, Preshita has extensive 3 year working experience in frontend technologies. When not following her passion of learning and exploring new technologies she spends her time cooking and travelling.
Jose Mota
Marketing Manager & Host of OST LIVE
Jose Mota is a driven marketer and podcast creative from Southern California. He earned his BA in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton. Jose was previously the host of Daily Crypto, a cryptocurrency world news podcast with over 85k monthly downloads. He now specializes in podcast programming and growth marketing, generating creative content for OST LIVE.
Gregory Pieniazek
Administration Manager
Gregory is in helping the Berlin office administration, and assists OST employees in any area he can. He is passionate about his hometown Berlin and about the various social service projects that he helps organize within the city. In his free time he enjoys meeting friends, doings sports, and reading about emerging technologies and new markets.
Shlomi Azran
Identity Product Manager
Shlomi is a KYC, AML & Fraud specialist with more than three years of experience in the FinTech industry. As Identity product manager, he is making sure that our clients' users are verified and AML/CTF covered. Shlomi loves to explore the interaction between users and systems and always looks for ways to make this experience as friendly and easy as possible.
J.D. Hildebrand
Senior Editor
J.D. Hildebrand left programming in 1983 to become technical editor of the ahead-of-its-time Portable Computer magazine. Since then, he has led many of computing's leading technical journals, including Computer Language, Software Development, Unix Review, and more. He also founded Embedded Systems Programming, and Windows Tech Journal. The composer of five symphonies and dozens of works for classical and jazz ensembles, J.D. spends his offline time with his daughter, Maja.
Work with us
We are looking for people who crave a challenge -- who want to work at the nexus of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the future of business and society. We are a fast moving team with high expectations and a rewarding culture of learning, mentoring, and coaching. If you’re looking to have a practical impact and solve real-world problems with blockchain technologies, get in touch with us!
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Advisors Team
Trent McConaghy
Advisor
Trent likes to build things that matter for humanity in the long term. He's working on democratizing data. This is via Ocean decentralized data exchange protocol & network, BigchainDB & IPDB blockchain database protocol & network, COALA IP protocol, and advising the Estonian E-residency program. His long-term goal is to help ensure that humanity has a role in an increasingly autonomous world.
Brian Lio
Advisor
Brian Lio is the founder and CEO of Smith + Crown. He is the Chief Research Adviser to the Digital Chamber of Commerce's Token Alliance and a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Previously, he founded the Bright Iron Group, a design, strategy and user experience consultancy based in NYC and has held positions at Microsoft and DDB.
Rick Dudley
Advisor
President of Vulcanize, a firm providing decentralized applications with blockchain technical guidance, project management, and code & security audits; & Blockchain Architect for Omega One. Previously with ConsenSys, where he developed a patent in provably fair gaming and designed novel cryptographic protocols.
Jehan Chu
Advisor
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Kenetic Capital (formerly Jen Advisors), one of the first Blockchain Venture Capital and Cryptocurrency Funds as well as Token Sale Consulting in Asia. An early investor in crypto-currencies, Jehan Chu founded Ethereum Meetup Hong Kong and grew it from 5 persons to over 1,100 and hosted more than 60 Blockchain events including Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin 7 times.
Lars Hinrichs
Advisor
Lars Hinrichs is founder and CEO of Cinco Capital, a private-equity fund that invests in tech companies. Lars launched politik-digital.de, a platform for politics and new media, and XING, a business networking platform which became the world’s first Web 2.0 company to go public. Lars serves on several boards, including Deutsche Telekom AG. His latest project is the Apartimentum, a smart house project in Hamburg.
Geoffrey Prentice
Advisor
Geoffrey Prentice was co-founder and chief strategy officer of Skype. He has nearly 20 years of experience founding, scaling, and investing in technology companies across international markets. Currently, Geoff is co-founder of Oriente, which is building build a financial-services infrastructure that unlocks financial access, freedom, and opportunity to underserved communities throughout Asia’s emerging markets.
Mark Bonchek
Advisor
Mark Bonchek is the founder and CEO of Shift Thinking and a faculty member of Singularity University. He has published over 50 articles in Harvard Business Review, including the first on branded currency in 2013. In 1997, Mark received Harvard's first PhD on the topic of social media. Mark helps organizations rethink how to engage customers, accelerate growth and transform markets.
Gil Penchina
Advisor
Gil Penchina is a serial entrepreneur and super angel. He was an angel in Brave, Ripple, Filecoin, Civic, EOS and in Paypal in 1999. He’s a frequent media contributor on Blockchain on TechCrunch and Medium. He is a co-founder at Pryze.com and Partner at Ridge Ventures. Previously co-founder of Fastly, CEO of Wikia, now a top 50 website and was a member of the pre-IPO team at eBay.
Sebastian Quinn-Watson
Advisor
Sebastian Quinn-Watson is a partner at Blockchain Global leading the Blockchain marketing and advisory business. He has advised on a number of successful and market leading projects such as Viberate (sold out in 45 seconds), Bankera (largest presale in history), Powerledger, Etherparty, Playkey.io, Airswap and others.
Gary Nuttall
Advisor
Gary is well recognised in the Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technology arena, with particular expertise in the commercial insurance and legal sectors. He is a founding partner of Team Blockchain, a global virtual consultancy practice and sits on the TechUK DLT Working Group. He provides education, advisory and consultancy services through Distlytics Ltd, the consulting firm that he founded in 2016. He writes articles for magazines and thought leadership blogs on a number of emerging technologies, with a particular emphasis on blockchain.
David Bohnett
Advisor
David is a philanthropist, technology entrepreneur, and the founder of early stage private equity firm, Baroda Ventures. David began investing in digital currencies and crypto companies in 2014. An Internet pioneer, in 1994, David founded GeoCities.com, once ranked one of the four most trafficked websites in the world. GeoCities became publicly traded on NASDAQ and was acquired by Yahoo!
Thomas Power
Advisor
Cutting edge Board Member to numerous companies involved with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, deeply connected in Silicon Valley, NYC, London, Australia, New Zealand with over 200,000 Twitter followers since March 2007. Raised and sold over £1bn since 1980. Focused on AI Big Data Bitcoin Blockchain Crypto Ethereum FinTech ICO SaaS Social Media Tokenomics ...very Geeky, Social and Likeable.
Adam Jackson
Advisor
Adam Jackson is a technology entrepreneur and investor obsessed with creating beautiful and intuitive software. Currently an active investor & advisor to early blockchain projects. Prior he was CEO and co-founder of Doctor On Demand. Previously founded DriverSide and MarketSquare. Angel investments include: Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.
Matt Chwierut
Advisor
Matt Chwierut is the Research Director at Smith + Crown. He guides a research team in evaluating new cryptocurrency protocols, authoring briefing memos on key emerging topics, and reviewing countless white papers and is a Fellow at the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds degrees from University of California Berkeley and Stanford University.