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Nick Rotola

Nick Rotola is a husband, father of two, and servant of God. He holds an MBA from Oral Roberts University and spent four years as a professional baseball player. During that time, he founded Trainingbats.com, the world’s leading practice bat retailer, and the Baseball IQ App, home to the largest collection of baseball courses. After retiring in 2021, Nick played a key role in scaling Floki and Valhalla, helping them reach a $3billion market cap. He also founded Web3 Gallery, the world’s top NFT gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Now, Nick is building UP, a safe alternative to TikTok for youth, designed to shield young people from harmful algorithms while offering world-class content from top creators. With a growing waitlist of hundreds of creators boasting a combined 250 million followers, UP is set to make a significant impact as it enters its beta in January. Nick is on a mission to challenge Silicon Valley’s dominance and ride the wave of God’s redemption in the tech space. He believes in praying BIG prayers and thinking BIG, confident that with God on his side, nothing can stand against him.

Christine Abernathy

Christine serves as the Director of Global Labs at FaithTech. With prior industry experience at F5, she led the Open Source Programs Office and Facebook (Meta Platforms) where she was instrumental in growing their open source presence. Other Facebook roles included Developer Advocate Parse, Facebook Platform and Partner Engineer, Mobile. Before Facebook, Christine headed up engineering at Mshift, a mobile banking software provider, delivering iOS/Android apps and mobile browser-based products.

George Campbell

George is a design leader with 20+ years of experience in building creative teams and shipping innovative user-centered products. He has held design management positions at HP and Meta, and has consulted tech startups in Silicon Valley and London, helping founders via his network and deep expertise in hardware and software design. An early adopter of virtual reality and blockchain technologies, George has a particular interest in applying cutting edge tech into useful products and services.

James Poulter

James is a distinguished digital marketing professional and technology expert, with a particular emphasis on Conversational AI strategy. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Vixen Labs, James has been instrumental in establishing the company as Europe's leading full-service Voice Agency. James has extensive experience in the ethical use of AI, corporate deployment of advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, and the integration of conversational AI into marketing and business strategies.

Samuel Chen

Samuel is the co-founder of KulaDAO and is deeply involved in bringing emerging technologies into the business world. He has experience applying AI, data science, and web3 technology to a range of businesses including hedge funds trading derivatives and cryptocurrencies. Samuel holds a B.S. in Physics, a B.A. in Business Economics from UCLA, and an M.Eng. in Applied Physics from Cornell University.

Chris Turner

With more than two decades of experience in the international development field in both Asia and Africa, Chris developed core competencies in community development and organisational development. His mission is to create positive social change with equitable economic impact by leveraging emerging technologies. As a co-founder of KulaDAO, Chris leveraged his field of expertise and PhD in Organizational Leadership to foster collaboration, innovation, and impact.