Our Team

Zilliqa’s success depends on great minds working together. We are a growing team of 50+ scientists, engineers, venture creators, and industry experts who believe in evolving the scalability and sustainability of blockchain technology. We believe that the industry is still very young and that the potential is enormous.

Team
Leadership
Mark Hemsley
Mark Hemsley

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

Mark is Chairman of the Board at Zilliqa, a role to which he brings strong leadership considerable experience, including tenures as President of Cboe Europe and Executive Vice President of Cboe Global Markets.

Matt Dyer
Matt Dyer

CEO

Matt serves as Zilliqa’s interim CEO, where he leverages his more than 20 years of enterprise experience to manage the company’s operations and drive global commercialisation of the overall business.

Richard Watts
Richard Watts

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

As CTO, Richard oversees all aspects of Zilliqa’s technology roadmap and strategy. He is a passionate and experienced technologist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Tom Fleetham
Tom Fleetham

HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - SPORTS AND GAMING

Tom leads Zilliqa’s business development in sports and gaming and brings extensive experience to the business, having spent over a decade at IBM as Sports and Entertainment Lead.

Bradley Laws
Bradley Laws

HEAD OF INVESTOR RELATIONS

Bradley leads investor relations and venture investments at Zilliqa, a role to which he brings more than a decade of experience in investment management, startups, and tech innovation.

Zoltan Fazekas
Zoltan Fazekas

HEAD OF RESEARCH

Zoltan is a research scientist driving Zilliqa's protocol design. He has a Ph.D. in computer science, two decades of leadership experience, and a successful track record in the blockchain space since 2016.

Max Kantelia
Max Kantelia

CO-FOUNDER

Max is a serial entrepreneur with a successful track record spanning over 25 years and a passion for creating digital products for luxury brands and enterprise clients.

Juzar Motiwalla
Juzar Motiwalla

CO-FOUNDER & BOARD MEMBER

Juzar is an expert at building state-of-the-art blockchain platforms and a veteran venture capitalist with tech investments, board level experience, and M&As in Silicon Valley and in Asia.

1

Ecosystem

Our ecosystem team supports blockchain education and growth initiatives, conducts market research and promotes the adoption of the Zilliqa platform.

2

Business tech

Our blockchain consultants deliver fast, secure, and compliant solutions, harnessing the power of the Zilliqa blockchain so your business can successfully grow on our network.

3

Platform

Our platform team helps design, construct, and manage Zilliqa’s core infrastructure.

4

Language

The Scilla team successfully maintains our safe-by-design smart contract language for all our users.

5

Usability

The usability team maintains the SDKs, IDEs, toolkits, applications, and documentation for our dApp developers and end-users.

6

Marketing and communications

Our marketing team will ensure that Zilliqa's core values are not only heard but celebrated across all its platforms.

Our global team of scientists, engineers, and venture creators are ready to unleash blockchain technology.