Founding team
Ness, Pierre and Hugo have been working together in the space for a year, on a few projects before BvB. The first one was an NFT agency during the NFT summer. Then, they started a project to sell high-end Picasso artworks through NFTs representing fractions of the ownership of the real artworks. They dropped the project when the bear market hit, but it inspired them with a much, much bigger idea 😎 Alonso joined them recently as the lead full stack dev.
Ness Benamran
🧠 Skillset: Finance, Protocol, Business Development, Sales
🎓 Background:
COO US for Shadow, a cloud gaming company that raised $120M, and had 100k users
Strategy consulting with McKinsey & Company
Equity derivatives structurer with ABN AMRO and RBS
Graduated from Stanford University and Ecole Polytechnique
Hugo Mercier
🧠 Skillset: Product, Marketing, Branding
🎓 Background:
Founder and former CEO of Dreem, a consumer deeptech developing solutions to diagnose and treat sleep troubles. Raised $60M and had 120 employees.
Investor in 10 crypto projects and 25 startups
Graduated from UC Berkeley and Ecole Polytechnique
Pierre Gilardin
🧠 Skillset: Blockchain & full stack dev, Product, Protocol
🎓 Background:
Full time on blockchain projects for the last 2 years (trading bots, creation of NFT collections, NFT analysis tools), personally involved since 2017
iOS developer (Natixis, EDF)
Graduated from EFREI
Alonso Giraldo
🧠 Skillset: full stack dev, infrastructure, security, product
🎓 Background:
Web & IT experience for the last 10 years in various domains (Informations systems bootstrap, Web & Mobile development, DevSecOps, Big data platforms, Chatbots, Embedded systems, Linux OS hardening…)
Founded it’s own Web & Mobile agency Breakpoint Technology that went up to 40 employees worldwide from 2018 to 2022
Worked for the french National Authority for Cyberdefence, network & information security, and the French Ministry of Defense
Graduated from EPITA (French Software Engineering degree) & Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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