Artem Gordadze
Founder
“Every new user of your product adds value to the other users of your product.”
A seasoned product and business development leader with over a decade of experience, Artem has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation across FinTech, Blockchain, and Gaming, contributing to company valuations exceeding $3 billion.
From token concept to market entry and beyond, his expertise covers the full token lifecycle, including token economics design, exchange listing and market-making strategies, and go-to-market consulting. His background also includes portfolio management and M&A advisory work for venture capital firms and hedge funds.
Faraz Shaikh
Partner, CTO
Faraz is a technology leader boasting two decades of expertise. He notably served as the Engineering Lead at Dfinity, the Internet Computer (ICP), holds 20+ US patents, was the Lead Architect at Cisco-acquired Springpath, and earned a Master's from Carnegie Mellon.
Omar Hamwi
Partner, Business Development
Omar has over five years of experience in the cryptocurrency industry, most recently as Head of Business Development for Stellar.
Before that, he worked at Parallel Finance, a leading DeFi platform, where he focused on growth, partnerships, and marketing. Prior to Parallel Finance, Omar led global business development at Dash Core Group, specializing in trading and remittances.
Andrew Isaacs
Investment Banking
Andrew brings more than 15 years of specialized Investment Banking experience with more than $23 billion in executed transactions and $2 billion in digital asset transactions. Before starting AION, Andrew served as Managing Director for Galaxy Digital in New York .
Daniel Khvostenko
Digital Asset Analyst
Daniel is the Managing Director at a leading cryptocurrency exchange in Europe. He has a strong track record of driving company growth through strategic, consultative solutions that surpass revenue and profit goals. With expertise in database, web development, e-commerce, SaaS, cloud, and real-time software, Daniel excels at translating technological value into business benefits and customer success.
Iryna Kaplun
Marketing Executive
Iryna is an experienced leader in marketing, consulting, and business development. Having been involved in Web3 since 2019, she has built out multiple well-known communities from scratch, managed several successful TGEs, and was a change manager pivoting stagnant networks and projects to new heights while continuing to spearhead ecosystem growth at all levels for all sorts of projects.
Sasha Antropov
Venture Partner
Sasha Antropov is an experienced business development professional previously holding C-level role in the IT & deep tech company where he helped grow it from 15 developers to 60+. Having an entrepreneurial mind set he joined an early stage deep tech startup as a Partner and helped bring the right team members on board and advised on the fundraising activities.
Artem Rozov
Market Research
Artem Rozov is a Financial Management Consultant and Business Analyst who has extensive experience with business start-ups, corporate acquisitions and operating small to large companies on a daily basis. Passionate about Blockchain in Decentralized Finance applications. He is a trusted advisor to brilliant tech startups.
Erik Messaki
Creative Director
Erik is Co-founder and CEO at Outcrowd. Top 15 Digital Design Agency Globally in 2021. Also, it was listed as Top 100 B2B Creative and Design Company in 2021 by Clutch. He knows how to drive ROI with the help of web design and draw attention to the business with outstanding brand identity.