Our Team

Meet the people who contribute to Cardano Governance Services

Active members (alphabetical by first name)

Jonathan Postnikoff (JP) Miroslav Rajh Stephen Whitenstall Tevo Saks Vanessa Cardui

Advisors (alphabetical by first name)

Andre Diamond Felix Weber Nadim Karam Nori Nishigaya Peter Wolcott

Biographies

Andre Diamond

Experience :

has experience in small business operation and accounting. Joined the Catalyst Circle Admin team as treasurer in Nov 2021 and has expanded this role by starting the Treasury Guild alongside Miroslav to support projects in the Catalyst community as well. Currently using and documenting GitHub Actions to help automate some of the tasks in Catalyst Circle and treasury work.

Felix Weber

Co Founder & Somehow leader at the Catalyst Swarm. Recruited the participating members as Treasurers, Facilitators & Secretaries to the Catalyst Circle in CCv1; since then, supporting & advising the Team on its way forward. Fulltime Cardano & Catalyst Community Member since Fund 3, CCv1, CCv3 Member.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-weber-339590209/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CatalystSwarm

Dework: https://app.dework.xyz/profile/Felix%20%5BSWARM%5D

Jonathan Postnikoff (JP) -

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-postnikoff-915b7062/

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDPostnikoff

Experience : JP has been a member of the Cardano Community since December 2020 and has been active in Catalyst since Fund4. Originally beginning as a Swarm member, JP became a proposal assessor (previously CA) during F5 and has participated as both a PA and vPA in all subsequent funds. JP has also fulfilled the CC Admin Team’s secretary role since the election of CCv2, and is a funded proposer in F6 and F7 in support of the Circle and admin team. On a professional level, JP is a policy advisor in a federal bureaucracy and has a Master’s degree in public policy and public administration. His strongest skills include meeting secretarial services, one-on-one and group facilitation, proposal drafting, editing, and ideation support, and community engagement. Services : JP is available for governance services, administrative services, project management services and innovation ideation.

Miroslav Rajh

Experience :

20 years of experience in managing finances and organizing the business of NGOs and the University. He also worked as a Human Resources Manager (HRM). Joined the Catalyst Circle Admin team together with Andre as treasurer in Nov 2021. Currently he is recording, documenting and managing all transactions for CC Admin Team, Swarm, Cardano4Climate, Community Governance and Bridge Builders.

Nadim Karam

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadim-karam/

Experience: Nadim is an enterprise consultant in the blockchain space; specializing in DAOs, DeFi, and decentralized identity. Nadim graduated from MIT Sloan School of Management in Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation & Application. Within the Cardano ecosystem, Nadim is part of the Catalyst Circle Admin Team and runs a mission-driven stake pool. Nadim also manages ‘Cardano Middle East’, the largest Cardano community in the MENA region. Services: Nadim is available for governance services, meetings and workshop facilitation, ideation sessions, election management, and strategic consultations.

Nori Nishigaya

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishigaya/

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/Xeeban

Experience : ​​Nori Nishigaya is the Founder of the Salmon Nation Decentralized Alliance (SANADA) and co-founder of Bridge Builders. He is a current member of the Catalyst Circle Admin Team since it’s inception, core team member of Cardano4Climate, a Cardano Ambassador, PA, and Funded proposer. He is passionate about radical inclusivity and community and devoted to making Cardano the best community on the planet. Nori brings over 30 years of experience in software development, agile methodologies, leadership in managing teams, and founding and running technology startups. His current passion is discovering governance and organizational best practices for radically decentralized and self-managed communities through experimentation and hands on practice. Services :

Peter Wolcott

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wolcott-013358141/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sirwolcott Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sirwolcott Experience : Services :

Stephen Whitenstall

Experience : Co Founder of QA-DAO ; Circle V2 representative for funded proposers. Funded proposer in Funds 5 to 10. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-whitenstall-166727210/

Vanessa Cardui

Artist; archivist; activist. Community engagement professional with 20+ years' experience supporting communities to take ownership of their own archival record. Part of QA-DAO; part of CGO (Community Governance Oversight); founding member of The Facilitators’ Collective.

Tevo Saks

Building Communities Connecting Decentralised Open Source Services and Contributing to Community Governance Documentation

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