DeFi Business Development & Ecosystem Partnerships | Liquidity Protocols | On-Chain Finance
Business Development professional with 6+ years in Web3, specializing in ecosystem partnerships, liquidity protocols, and on-chain finance. Track record of securing $100M+ in liquidity commitments and $5M+ in ecosystem grants. Experience spanning tokenized BTC yield protocols, Ethereum data middleware, and blockchain R&D firms.
Desired role
Business Development
Work type
Remote
Syntetika
Feb 2025 — Feb 2026
Led market validation and ecosystem onboarding for a tokenized BTC yield protocol bridging TradFi structured products and DeFi infrastructure. Secured $100M+ in early liquidity commitments, structured collateral and lending integrations with DeFi money markets, built relationships with funds and exchanges, and designed ecosystem GTM strategy focused on institutional DeFi adoption.
Herodotus
Nov 2022 — Dec 2024
Secured $5M+ in ecosystem funding and grants (Optimism, StarkNet, and others). Conducted customer discovery with L2 teams and DeFi protocols, coordinated cross-functional execution between engineering, research, and ecosystem teams, and built internal planning frameworks to align product roadmap with partner ecosystem demand.
Nethermind
Aug 2021 — Aug 2022
Led ops for IRL events including a 200-attendee event delivered in 3 weeks. Conducted market research across NFTs, DeFi, and metaverse infrastructure. Contributed to DeFi governance framework design covering tokenomics and incentives, and supported ecosystem growth through partnerships and developer outreach.
Crypto Mate
Dec 2020 — Aug 2021
Conducted technical research on atomic bridges between Ethereum and Stacks networks. Built research-based content pipelines for DeFi clients, managed marketing campaign rollouts, optimized analytics via Google Analytics and HubSpot, and collaborated with tech teams on UI/UX and growth campaigns.
Blockchain Technology
2021 – 2022
Bachelor's degree · Hotel Management and Business Administration
2011 – 2015