Now that we’ve hinted at the exciting things to come with Cartesi, it’s time to meet the people behind the magic.

While the Cartesi team continues to grow, the core stays true to its roots. Meet us!

Core Team

Chief Executive Officer

Heading the Cartesi team is our very own Erick de Moura, hailing from Brazil with experience all over the world. Erick is a software engineer and technical leader with broad experience including development process definition, management, and system design. Erick has been pivotal in the success of a handful of tech companies in industries ranging from telecom and transportation to healthcare and photography, and has been moving into the blockchain ecosystem for the last couple of years.

Chief Scientific Officer

Augusto, one of the masterminds behind Cartesi’s inception and architecture, is a master of mathematics and probability with a PhD from ETH-Zurich, one of the top universities in the world. Augusto is one of the world’s leading researchers in percolation and random walks at IMPA. He specializes in cryptography and crypto economics, heading the architecture, blockchain development, and technical cryptoeconomic protocols to truly bring real world computations to the blockchain.

Chief Technology Officer

Diego, another mastermind behind Cartesi, is one of few experts in network programming and high-performance GPGPU, Linux, and more. Diego holds a PhD from Princeton University and post doc at Microsoft Research, also with a background of research at IMPA. Diego is making Cartesi possible through his expertise of bringing real architecture and a real world operating system to the blockchain and invoking reality.

Chief Operating Officer

Colin is the execution master behind the business side of Cartesi. With years of experience in community start-ups and business operations around the globe, Colin is a previous venture capitalist and start-up founder. Colin is well positioned to help Cartesi become a critical power tool for blockchain users, creating a real community of users and getting the world on board.

Chief Business Development Officer

Marco is also a previous venture capitalist and start-up founder. With extensive experience in business development throughout Asia leading countless partnerships and deals through execution, Cartesi is well positioned to become a key player in a huge market of projects that require the technology we are bringing to the table.

Blockchain Engineer

Felipe is a highly experienced full stack developer who has worked with several technologies ranging from Convolutional Neural Networks to iOS App development. Felipe started working with blockchain technology as a researcher of Ethereum at PUC-RIO, studying and developing blockchain solutions for clean energy.

What a lineup, and it won’t stop there.

The Cartesi team is also backed by some rockstar advisors that are helping drive our success.

Advisors

Senior Advisor

Serguei is a Brazilian mathematician of Russian origin with a PhD from the Moscow State University. Serguei currently works in the field of Stochastic Processes and is a cryptography enthusiast. He has written a number of leading whitepapers in the blockchain field such as the Tangle and is the Co-founder of IOTA and the Wings project. Serguei is a key part of the Cartesi project and will help us lead on the technical side.

Senior Advisor

Stas is a key part of helping to drive Cartesi on the business side. Stas leads tech strategy and partnerships for Wings. Stas has 15+ years of extensive experience in engineering, development and management of software, cloud services, video streaming, blockchain and community. A true entrepreneur at heart.

Advisor

Luiz Henrique is a computer scientist and full professor of computer graphics at IMPA, one of the top research and mathematics institutes in Brazil. Luiz Henrique is one of the creators of the Lua Programming Language, a popular language for the gaming industry. Luiz is also helping Cartesi on the technical side.

Advisor

William is a General Partner at SOSV — The Accelerator VC — one of the most active early stage and blockchain VC firms in the world. William is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, SOSV’s global Internet accelerator and the first accelerator to launch in Asia, and Managing Director of MOX, the Mobile Only Accelerator with 160m smartphone users on its platform. William is an early supporter of the Cartesi project and is helping to lead and advise on business, partners, and supporters.

Advisor

Boris Povod is a well known blockchain developer with many years of experience in the crypto scene. Boris is currently a blockchain developer and one of the original founders for the Wings project. In the past he co-founded Crypti and acted as a technical advisor for Lisk.