Team
Min-Si specializes in Web3, including crypto on/off-ramp payments, privacy, zero-knowledge proof, and other Ethereum protocols. Previously, she served as the Chief Product Officer (CPO) of AZA Finance (BitPesa), where she navigated the foreign exchange (FX) Fintech landscape and the early days of the crypto industry. She has also worked as a product market lead for a venture-backed cryptography and privacy firm. Before these roles, Min-Si worked as an M&A consultant and risk model developer. With an extensive background at the intersection of technology, finance, and blockchain, Min-Si is a pivotal player in establishing early startups in the ever-evolving environment of digital assets and decentralized systems.
Robert is an advisor at Ecomonitor. He is an established researcher who has spent the last decade investigating the impact of extreme climate events on biodiversity and human society. As a global leader in the study of marine heatwaves, he has led multiple international research teams on subject matter as diverse as air-sea heat flux budgets, shifting fisheries, and Arctic tourism. Through these projects he has nurtured a deep understanding and appreciation for the complex interconnectedness of the physical and natural world. As well as the technical experience necessary to design and lead missions for the in situ sampling that allow for scientific reporting on the biodiversity impacts of climate change. These competencies are rounded out by a career as a data scientist, during which he developed software that has become a global standard in academia, as well as operational web platforms for the valorisation and dissemination of scientific research outputs.
Marios, a core research affiliate, is an entrepreneurial scientist and AI innovator with three decades of international experience in research and leadership. A nuclear physicist by training, his early career at prestigious institutions resulted in scientific contributions that won recognition and forged expertise in data analysis, empirical modeling, and simulation frameworks.
Venturing into the industry, he patented disruptive technology innovations from dynamical systems models to AI algorithms and statistical methods. A multi-agent model of pedestrian behavior that he created is now the global benchmark for crowd simulations, powering Digital Twins for optimizing large-scale venues from the Olympics to airports, railway stations, and smart-city services. A housing price index he invented was adopted for derivatives by investment banks, awakening a dormant market with a traded volume exceeding $4 billion in three years. Data-driven decision-support tools he has developed, including for the US Department of Energy, inform strategic high-stakes decision-making.