About us
The Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization. We are tasked with advancing the public digital infrastructure Cardano and work to anchor it as a utility for financial and social systems, thus empowering the digital architects of the future.
The Foundation facilitates the worldwide advancement of Cardano in enterprise applications. We develop infrastructure tooling—including where there may not be an immediate commercial use case—plus strengthen operational resilience, and drive diversity of on-infrastructure use cases as well as the development of sound and representative governance.
Another significant part of our mission is to engage with and support the Cardano community. The Foundation assists the development of tools the community can use to leverage Cardano to solve problems in new ways.
Meet Our Team
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Board Members

Jillian MacNab
Chairperson

Mary Beth Buchanan
Board Member

Andreas Eschbach
Board Member

Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Board Member
Executives

Frederik Gregaard
Chief Executive Officer

Andreas Pletscher
Chief Operating Officer

David Jornod
Chief Financial Officer

Nicolas Jacquemart
Chief Legal Officer
CEO Office

Amanda Rasch
Director of CEO Office

Anniina Eichenberger
Internal Operations Coordinator

Cherylle Schwizer
Executive Assistant & Office Manager
Finance

Cleopatra Martins
Financial Accountant

Rita Mistry-Spada
Global Finance Director

Fllajder Disha
Accountant

Tatiana Perju
Accountant
Legal

John Wright
Senior Legal Counsel

Rafael Fraga
Associate Legal Counsel

Simone Schürch
Senior Legal Counsel

Benjamin Bürgi
Regulatory Development Officer
Operations

David Taylor
Chief Marketing Officer

Renagh Mooney
Global Communications Director

Inês Botelho
Content Marketing Manager

Kristin Kuhn
Growth Marketing Manager

Pravin Narsing
Art Director / Designer

Elis Moormaa
Events Marketing Manager

Umar Jan
Stakeholder Marketing Manager: Ambassadors

Jennifer Antao
Project Management Office Lead

Sam Grant
Project Manager

Tamara Meyer
Head of Human Resources

Adrià Juanola Alpiste
DevOps Engineer

Rupen Vara
Financial Services Marketing Manager

M. Àngels Jover Casasnovas
Senior Project Manager

Adriana Saramet
Talent Acquisition Specialist

Behnaz Ghalavand
HR Generalist

Carina Zambelli
Payroll Manager & People Operations Coordinator

Ayan Mohamud
People and Culture Partner

Alexander Moser
Associate Head of Infrastructure

Anthony Meyer
Project Manager

Cristian Lucera
Senior IT Operations Specialist

Manuel Schmidt
DevOps Engineer

Erica Mills
Communications Manager
Partnerships

Jeremy Firster
Global Director of Enterprise Partnerships

David Perry
Senior Relationship Manager Financial Institutions

Sandro Knöpfel
Head of Financial and Regulated Institutions

Pierre Kaklamanos
Partnerships Manager

Rizwan Pabani
Partnerships Manager

Alex Maaza
Outreach Development Officer

Sacha Windisch
Senior Relationship Manager - Financial Institutions
Engineering & Development

Lucas Rosa
Senior Software Engineer

Mel McCann
Vice President of Engineering

Jide Fashola
Head of Technical Integrations

Matthias Benkort
Technical Director of Open Source Development

Fabian Bormann
Team Lead Ecosystem Architecture and Engineering (EAE)

Jorge Navarro Bendicho
Junior Java Developer

Kartik Iyer
Integration Engineer

Marco Russo
Integrations Tools Team Lead

Michiel Bellen
Integrations Core Team Lead

Onur Görkem Özcan
Senior Blockchain Product Owner

Sebastian Bode
Director of Engineering

Thomas A. Mayfield
Team Lead Decentralized Trust and Identity Solutions (DTIS)

Roberto C. Morano
DevOps Engineer

Darlisa Giusti Consoni
Partnership Integration Engineer

Jaime Caso Onzain
Frontend Developer

Satya Muntha
UI Tech Lead

Fergal O’Connor
Senior Full Stack Developer

Vladislav Kudrin
Integration Engineer

Robert Salaman
UI/UX Designer

Satya Ranjan
Senior Enterprise Architect

Salvatore Di Salvo
Frontend Developer

David Clark
Technical Product Owner

Dimitris Alexandros Poulopoulos
Adrestia Delivery Lead

Giovanni Gargiulo
Senior Enterprise Architect

Vanessa Hurhangee
Education Manager, Cardano Academy

Paolo Veronelli
Software engineer

Johannes Lund
Software Engineer

Yuriy Lazaryev
Senior Software Engineer

Pawel Jakubas
Software Engineer

John Greene
Technical Blockchain Educator

Jonathan Knowles
Software Engineer

Lincon Onório Vidal
Blockchain Support Engineer

Manvir Schneider
Research Scientist

Nadia Mannell
Director of Cardano Academy

Tien Nguyen Anh
Blockchain Support Engineer

Kasey White
Open Source Senior Software Engineeer
Community

Tommy Kammerer
Community Team Director

Andrew Charalambous
Community Manager - Japan

Denicio Mac Kenzie Bute
Community Manager - Netherlands

Georg Wellschmied
Community Manager - Germany

Markus Gufler
Technical Community Lead

Fillips Ickevics
Web Developer
