The core contributors hail from iconic tech companies like Coinbase, YouTube, Google, Paypal, Dropbox, and Pinterest. Our founders are serial entrepreneurs, and multiple team members have founded and exited successful ventures.
Josh Fraser
Cofounder
Josh started coding at the age of 10. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage.
Matthew Liu
Cofounder
Matt was the 3rd PM at YouTube (acquired by Google) and VP PM at Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo) and Bonobos (acquired by Walmart). He has a MS and BS from Stanford.
Micah Alcorn
VP of Product
Micah was the technical co-founder of WellAttended, a bootstrapped box office management platform. He worked as a commercial real estate broker while learning to code.
Domen Grabec
Engineer
Domen co-founded and led a team developing a mobile application with 2 chess Grandmasters. He previously had a successful career at Cetra, Zemanta and Peerindex.
Shahul Hameed
Engineer
Shahul is a fullstack engineer who started programming at age of 10. He previously worked as a freelancer and then joined Zoho as a front-end developer.
Aure Gimon
Product Designer
Aure is a product designer with 10+ years of experience. Prior to joining Origin, Aure worked at multiple startups and Fortune 500 companies. In a past life, he was also a software engineer.
Daniel Von Fange
Senior Engineer
Daniel brings a strong emphasis on security and data analysis to our team. Daniel has earned a reputation for being able to gather massive amounts of data and create dynamic visualizations at lightning speed.
Kara Chang
Executive Assistant
Kara is the executive assistant to Origin co-founders, Josh and Matt. She graduated from UC San Diego and previously managed a team of 10 people at an ecommerce company in Taiwan.
Clément Moller
Engineer
An aerospace engineer in a former life, Clement is a self taught smart-contract developer passionate about decentralization. Clement previously held Solidity Engineering roles at StakeDAO and Swell Network.
Christopher Jacobs
Senior Engineer
Chris previously worked at OCZ, Toshiba, Storcentric, and Palo Alto Networks as a Full Stack / UI Engineer. He is a creative developer who has over 15 years experience architecting software solutions.
Kelly Hwang
Investments/Treasury
Kelly was previously a successful startup founder and venture investor at Upfront Ventures before spending the last few years investing in DeFi. He has a BA in Economics from Stanford.
Justin Charlton
Head of Finance
Justin started investing in middle school, designed budgets for launching satellites into space (successfully!), and advised tech clients on M&A and strategy for 7 years at PwC and KPMG.
Peter Gray
BD Manager
Peter studied business at Tulane University and worked on the sales teams at Palo Alto Networks, VMware, and Alkemi Network before joining Origin as the OUSD BD Manager. He is a musician, hockey player, and avid skier.
Anna Wang
Head of Asia
Anna spent a decade managing digital projects and integrated marketing campaigns for brands such as HP, P&G, Billabong Group and Exness. Her passion lies in helping brands expand into Asian markets.
Ryan McNamara
Product Marketing Manager
Ryan comes from crypto journalism with a passion for educating the masses on blockchain technology. He scaled Benzinga’s crypto vertical from thousands to millions of readers and is a recent graduate of The University of Michigan.
Jonathan Snow
Data Engineer
Before joining Origin, Jonathan worked with several crypto and finance brands, focusing on building data pipelines and automation tools. Prior to that, he helped build a company that provided social media user data to a number of startups and PR firms.
Ariel Meranus
Director of Product
Ariel has spent the last 7+ years learning about and evangelizing the potential of web3. Before joining Origin, she was the Director of Product for an NFT marketplace focused on bringing NFTs to the sports, media, and entertainment verticals.
Rafael Ugolini
VP of Engineering
Rafael has several years of experience working in tech in different sectors. He previously worked at mStable, Collibra, and other places, including Sun Microsystems. He has an MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from ESADE.
Nick Addison
Sr Solidity Engineer
Nick has been developing Ethereum smart contracts professionally for over 6 years at mStable, Consensys and AgriDigital. Prior to focusing on Ethereum development, Nick worked in payments, investment banking and logistics. Nick is the author of open-source tools sol2uml and tx2uml.
Antoine Codogno
Sr Engineer
Antoine is a fullstack engineer with 15 years of experience. He worked in several Web2 companies such as Collibra and BeTv before joining the crypto DeFi ecosystem working at Frax and mStable.