Solana Labs is the company developing the Solana blockchain, a public Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network and the company was founded in 2017 to create a viable, energy-efficient alternative to the Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism. Solana Labs is led by 4 key contributors with a company size of over 50 employees.

Anatoly Yakovenko – Co-Founder and CEO

He is the creator of Solana. Before Solana, He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox.

Eric Williams – Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

He heads data science and token economics at Solana. Previously, He also led data science at Omada Health

Greg Fitzgerald – Co-Founder and CTO

He is the principal architect and CTO of Solana. Greg has experience in working with embedded systems. He created a bidirectional RPC bridge between C and Lua for the BREW operating systems, helped launch the ARM backend for the LLVM compiler toolchain, and published several open source projects, including a streaming LLVM optimizer in Haskell, license analysis tooling in Python, and a reactive web framework in TypeScript.

Raj Gokal – Co-Founder and COO

He leads operations, product, and finance at Solana Labs. He spent ten years in product management and finance. He was a venture investor at General Catalyst and started the consumer medical device company Sano, which attracted over $20 million in investment. He also led product management at Omada Health.