I'm the CFO of the NEAR Foundation. I started my career as a bank auditor for five years with PwC. After that, I joined the Private Equity Team of Horizon21, which first SwissRe and then BlackRock took over. Then, I served as the CFO of Source Capital, an algo trading firm, and later, as the CFO of Alpha Associates, another private equity group. In 2015, I joined the Ethereum Foundation’s Advisory Board, where I helped Vitalik Buterin secure funding and oversight for the Ethereum Foundation. After that, I served as the CFO of Status.im, the Ethereum messaging app/Web3 browser, and eventually, I served the Web3 Foundation. I’m the Co-Founder of Cleverkin.one, a successful crypto accounting firm. Moreover, I supported and advised many projects in the crypto space in various capacities, including Alephium, LUKSO, Casper Labs, Smart Valor, Open Forest Protocol, Endlesss, Arcade/Swarm City, and others.