Meet the Core Team
We have a great team of 11 highly skilled professionals within the blockchain, fitness and business. Together we have multiple successful businesses and dozens of years of experience.
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We have a great team of 11 highly skilled professionals within the blockchain, fitness and business. Together we have multiple successful businesses and dozens of years of experience.
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Matthew is a driven and accomplished Gen Z entrepreneur and swing trader who possesses a wealth of experience spanning over seven years in the financial and crypto markets. He founded Professional Genius, an innovative platform that connects business individuals through decentralized investment mechanisms, resulting in an impressive profit of over 10M+ in just two years.
As a Metaverse Advisor for the $1T Neom project in Saudi Arabia, Matthew is a trusted expert in the field of the metaverse and a community panelist for Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He holds a BSc in Sports Science from Loughborough University in the UK, and his expertise in the industry is highly respected.
Edouard Faure Cooper is our Head of Partnership and Investor Relations & CCO, bringing with him over 15 years of experience in business development within the finance, banking, and crypto industries. As a former Swiss private banker, he made the transition to the crypto sphere in 2022 and has been actively involved in the industry ever since.
Edouard is also an advisor for numerous projects, including Arianee, Affyn, Avadore, Archethic, Plutonian, Themoonbase.app, and more. He provides valuable insights on token utilities, designs tokenomics, acts as a fundraiser, and actively works to create synergies between different projects. With his extensive knowledge and expertise, Edouard is an asset to our team, helping us build strong partnerships and investor relations to drive our success forward.
Nathen Hinson is a highly knowledgeable engineering leader with decades of experience in dozens of verticals, from a wellness startup where he scaled their core product from tens to millions of users to the MapMyRun app, saving UnderArmour $1.3 million in annual cloud spend.
Most recently he has designed and engineered a unique elastic L0 web3 infrastructure that enables carbon-free block validations at any scale for ConcreteEngine, an upcoming startup in the high-performance computing space. He is uniquely qualified to combine these experiences for Athlerse and power it well into the next decade
Alex is a head of Programs, VC Partnerships & ConsenSys Startup Program, who created and manages two programs at ConsenSys since early 2022. The first is a global partnership program for VCs which serves as a wider collaboration platform between venture capital players and ConsenSys.
The second program is the CSI Startup Program, a 2-year builder's program for highly promising blockchain ventures, providing an all-access card to the world of ConsenSys. Alex is also a named spokesperson for media inquiries for ConsenSys in 2023. Before ConsenSys, Alex worked for leading tech companies such as Google, Alibaba, and Yext Inc. He is an avid athlete himself, partaking in marathons, triathlons, race biking, and daily fitness
Victor Lafforgue is an experienced crypto advisor with over five years of industry knowledge. He holds a degree from MIT and is currently the CCO for Archethic Public Blockchain.
Victor is also the founder of a private investment company and has created an NFT collection. He has extensive knowledge of DeFi 1.0/2.0/3.0 and is considered a "degen" in the field.
Victor Lafforgue is an experienced crypto advisor with over five years of industry knowledge. He holds a degree from MIT and is currently the CCO for Archethic Public Blockchain.