Who we are
Celestia builds dedicated, high-throughput chains for companies with internet-scale traffic.
We are a full-stack partner. We design and build a chain from first principles for your specific traffic profile and application needs, then hand it to you production-ready. You own the infrastructure and the economics.
Celestia Foundation supports the long-term development, governance, and ecosystem of the Celestia network. Celestia Labs is the core engineering team that builds and maintains it.
Leadership
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Chairman & CEO, Celestia FoundationCo-authored blockchain scaling research with Vitalik Buterin and founded Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook.
Nick White
Co-founder & CEO, Celestia LabsFounded Harmony Protocol following a career in AI.
Preston Evans
Chief Solutions Architect, Celestia LabsBuilt the Sovereign SDK, the highest-performance blockchain framework in production.
Ismail Khoffi
CTO, Celestia LabsWorked at EPFL's Decentralized and Distributed Systems Laboratory and contributed to Tendermint (now CometBFT), one of the first Proof-of-Stake stacks underpinning 200+ production blockchains.
Sarah Armstrong
CFOPrev.M&A @ Block, Cash App, Livepeer, Samsung
MBA · U of Rochester
Anna Morgan
Head of MarketingPrev.CMO @ CoinTelegraph
MBA · INSEEC
Zach Leibowitz
General CounselPrev.dYdX, Perkins Coie, Skadden Arps
JD · Fordham Law
Ethan Oak
Head of Strategic PartnershipsPrev.Investor @ Coinbase Ventures, McKinsey
BS · MIT
Rootul Patel
Head of ProtocolPrev.Software Engineer @ Palantir, AWS
BA · Boston College
Achilleas Sarantaris
Product ManagerPrev.Head of Product @ Async Art
MPhil · UCL
Eugenia Acosta
Product ManagerPrev.Product Marketing Manager @ Snap Inc.
BSc · U of Waterloo
Manav Aggarwal
Product ManagerPrev.Systems Software Engineer @ Two Sigma
BS & MS CS · Stanford
Rene Lubov
Founding EngineerPrev.Software Engineer @ Go-Ethereum, Ethereum Foundation
BA · GWU
Evan Forbes
Founding EngineerPrev.Researcher · Independent
BS · Truman State University
Nhu Viet Nguyen
Head of DevX, Founding EngineerPrev.Senior SWE in Test @ Oracle
BSc CS · Odessa National Polytechnic
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