Our Team

Our Team

Leadership Team and Partners
Ron Resnick
CEO of Blue Wave Inc
Business development executive with over 25 years’ experience successfully growing high technology businesses and their ecosystems...
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Business development executive with over 25 years’ experience successfully growing high technology businesses and their ecosystems. Past Executive Director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Grew the EEA from startup to a mature industry association. Prior to EEA, Ron held executive positions at Intel. Ron launched and became general manager of Intel’s 4G Broadband Wireless business startup. Ron was President and Chairman of the WiMAX Forum spearheading the launch of a 4G Telecom standard. Hired at Intel as Investment Director in Intel Capital. Prior to Intel, Resnick held roles in the game software and hardware peripheral business. Ron served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and has a B.S. in electrical engineering.
Dr. Sergii Grybniak
Head of Research at Blue Wave Inc
Ph.D. in Computer Science with 15+ years experience in applications development with experience working with Fortune 500 companies...
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Ph.D. in Computer Science with 15+ years experience in applications development with experience working with Fortune 500 companies and projects with over 100 million monthly users. He is also a regular contributing member of a number of respected international communities focused on DLT and application development. His work is published in Springer, ACM, IET, IEEE, and other respected peer-reviewed scientific media. Sergii was a member of the Advisory Council at The George Washington University, School of Business, Executive Program. He has a successful exit through the acquisition of a fintech startup by one of the top 10 banks in the US. Sergii is a Co-Chair of the IEEE Ukraine Blockchain Group
Richard Wang
Chairman of Association - Waterfall DAO Switzerland
Board Venture Capitalist, DraperDragon Fund. Richard Wang joined DFJDragon Fund since 2011. Mr. Wang has over 20 years of business development...
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Board Venture Capitalist, DraperDragon Fund. Richard Wang joined DFJDragon Fund since 2011. Mr. Wang has over 20 years of business development, technical marketing and sales management in high technology space experiences. He has been investing BlockChain Startups since 2015, his portfolios including Vechain, Qtum, Kronos, IOTex, Human Protocol, Asia Innovation Group, AiDTech and Concordium. He has an extensive network in Blockchain/Digital Asset area including developer community, Traders and Exchange. Mr Wang has several technical papers published in IEEE journal. Mr. Wang holds MSEE from National Chiao Tung University since 1995.
Jeff McDonald
Community Strategist
Community Strategist Jeff has been an instrumental figure in the NEM blockchain ecosystem, having co-founded the platform...
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Community Strategist Jeff has been an instrumental figure in the NEM blockchain ecosystem, having co-founded the platform and held several leadership positions from 2014 to 2022. He served as a Core Team member, Co-founder of the NEM Foundation, and Head Trustee for a 10-figure trust. Jeff’s experience extends beyond blockchain, having previously worked as an assistant professor teaching communications in South Korea and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa. He is also a co-founder of LuxTag.io, a blockchain-based solution provider in Malaysia.
Michael Terpin
Chief Evangelist
Michael Terpin is CEO of Transform Ventures, a blockchain and AI venture studio, whose portfolio includes OpenCarbon, an enterprise blockchain...
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Michael Terpin is CEO of Transform Ventures, a blockchain and AI venture studio, whose portfolio includes OpenCarbon, an enterprise blockchain carbon offset marketplace incorporating AI/LLM; and First Block, a blockchain financial and news distribution platform. Terpin is also a partner in Alpha Transform Ventures.He founded largest advisory/marketing firm in the cryptocurrency sector, Transform Group, a pioneer in crypto platform launches, including Augur, Bancor, Ethereum, Gnosis, Golem, Neo, Qtum, Tether, and WAX; and BitAngels, the first crypto angel network. Terpin lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he received the first Act 22 tax decree in the blockchain industry.
Core Developers & Researchers
Oleksandr Nashyvan
Techlead
Dmytro Rogovyi
Developer
Dr. Ihor Mazurok
Researcher
Dr. Ruslan Shanin
Researcher
Dr. Yevhen Leonchyk
Researcher
Volodymyr Mezin
Developer
Artem Aleksandrov
PM
Core Marketing, Business Development & Listing
Brad Xue
Business Development
Maryna Bizhikian
Head of Marketing at Waterfall DAO
Khrystyna Benderska
SMM at Waterfall DAO
Nataliia Lavrynenko
SMM at Waterfall DAO
Victoria Stadniuk
SMM at Waterfall DAO
Yelyzaveta Loktionova
Email Marketing at Waterfall DAO
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