Vesta Korniakova

Co-Founder 
Synthetic Biology
Vesta has presented her findings on riboswitches, RNA gene regulatory machinery. Vesta is also highly active in her community and is a member of The Hightech Emporium Cooperative. Vesta competed and won the 2019 Cryptochicks Hackathon for the Business Track with Tania. Her growing knowledge extends to decentralized technologies, which she has been avidly learning about and experimenting with since 2011. Vesta’s unmatched passion for pre-publication data sharing practice drives her desire to see the future of peer-to-peer research work fundamentally evolve.

Tania De Gasperis

Co-Founder
Strategic Foresight, UX Research
Tania is a multi-disciplinary designer and a researcher of ACE Lab at OCAD University where she completed her MDes thesis exploring an Agile, Foresight-Informed AI Governance Framework for Socially Responsible, Complex Adaptive Systems. She was a Researcher for the Montreal AI Ethics Institute and a graduate of Y Combinator Startup School 2018 and recently, a graduate of the Imagination Catalyst Incubator.  Tania competed and won the 2019 Cryptochicks Hackathon for the Business Track with Vesta. She brings a UX lens and Strategic Foresight approach to decentralized technologies. 

Mark Greenslade

Chief Technology Officer
Software for R&D
Full stack, clean-code, polyglot technologist with deep open-source agile exposure. Highly experienced in delivering coherent solutions to complex systems for private & public sector entities across Europe & beyond. A genuinely strategic thinker who brings to the table a rare combination of analytical & creative skills. Urbane, values driven, authentic, sociable & at ease creating the space for teams to flourish. Chair of the IEEE (CH) Working Group on Decentralised Systems. Member of the Central Bank Research Association. Comfortable at the bleeding edge of R&D.