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Anatoly Yakovenko is one of the co-founders of Solana Labs. Yakovenko was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in the 1990s. Education Anatoly got a BS degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2003, majoring in Computer Science. He founded Alescere, a VOIP startup, while he was in college, and then closed the company after graduation.CareerAfter graduation, Anatoly worked at Qualcomm as an Engineer for nearly 12 years (2003-2016). Then, he has two short experiences in Mesosphere and Dropbox responsible for developing the distributed system (2016-2017). In November 2017, Anatoly Yakovenko published a whitepaper describing Proof of History and started his journey of Solana.

Greg is one of the co-founders of Solana Labs.EducationGreg also graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2003, majoring in Computer Engineering. And he also got a diploma in Compilers from the University of California, San Diego in 2013.CareerGreg was also a member of Atom's early startup (Alescere). Then, he joined Qualcomm and became a colleague of Anatoly in 2005. From June 2011 to May 2014, Greg became a part of the Qualcomm Snapdragon LLVM Team, where he worked on the Clang C/C++ compiler as well as the Rust compiler. Invited by Anatoly, he entered Solana Labs (formerly Loom) in 2018 until now.

Eric Williams is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Solana Labs who heads data science and token economics. EducationEric studied particle physics at Berkeley (2000-2004) and received his Ph.D. from Columbia (2006-2012.CareerEric used to be a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York and a researcher at Cern. Then, he was responsible for the data science and analytics for a few entrepreneurs such as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Omada Health. He also co-founded a company called Motion.

Raj Gokal is one of the co-founders of Solana Labs and a board member of Solana Foundation.EducationRaj graduated from The Wharton School and studied Economics.CareerBefore joining Solana, Raj had several experiences in the digital health industry such as Stealth, Omada Health, Rock Health, and Sano (2013-2017). He also worked in an American venture firm called General Catalyst Partners for 10 months (2011-2012). Raj joined Solana Labs in 2017.