Sofiane Delloue (CEO/CTO)

Status: Founder

Past Experience: Obsessing over algorithms and system theory for 24 years. Founding team and advisor for startups with 9-digit exits; founded #1 web2 platform for creatives in France with Vice Media. Accelerated by NVIDIA in 2019 and pioneered Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback as Co-Founder of Newlife.ai Research Lab.

Current Mission: Oversees protocol design, development cycles, and architecture decisions as CTO and product manager; handles strategic decisions and deal closing.

Nicolas Luck (Lead Dev):

Status: Founder

Past Experience: Core lead developer and co-author of the Holochain Paper, an infra play peaked at $2.5B in 2021

Current Mission: Focuses on core infrastructure for the peer-to-peer human/agent interaction protocol.

Yurii Havrylko (ML Ops)

Status: Founder

Past Experience: Joined 2019. Built the first RLHF implementation at Newlife.ai after completing MSc at Polytechnic Lviv.

Current Mission: Building the agent graph for newOS, focusing on agent interoperability through IPSP and workflows involving RAG, Vector DB, Elastic Search.

Larry Muhlstein (Deep Learning Scientist)

Status: Part-time

Past Experience: PhD, Former DeepMind, Google, Snap machine learning engineer and scientist with specializations in recommender systems, natural language understanding, deep learning and information theory, based in Berkeley/SF, Oxford University and UC San Diego Alum.

Current Mission: Launching Newcoin and IPSP into the open-source AI community through research and implementations with his expertise in information theory.

Igor Rubinovich (Lead Backend Engineer)

Status: Founding team

Past Experience: Backend and architecture at DHL and Monster; co-founded Broad Mind, a graph DB solution.

Current Mission: Backend and architecture development for newOS’s Newgraph architecture.

Tuan Ahn Le (Lead Frontend Engineer)

Status: Founding team

Past Experience: Frontend software engineer for Good Data, City College San Francisco, and Deloitte.

Current Mission: Front-end development for both desktop and mobile for newOS.

Artem Maluga (Blockchain C++ Engineer)

Status: Part-time

Past Experience: Senior C++ and blockchain developer; founded DeFi protocol A-DEX and worked on platforms like RuTube.

Current Mission: Developed Newcoin L1 in C++ and preparing for deployment during the TGE phase.

Madeleine Parker (Growth)

Status: Founder

Past Experience: Co-founder of Newlife.ai pioneering first consumer RLHF accelerated by Nvidia, UCL, Farfetch. 6+ years in web3 in product management and research at KPMG, UN WFP, and luxury brands. Co-founded two AI x web3 accelerators: with IBM HPA, and with European School of Management and Technology. MSc Data Science/Economics ESMT, BA UCL. Madvi.xyz

Current Mission: Drives product management & user growth, strategy, ecosystem deals, academic relations, and fundraising for growth.

Hugo Hoppmann (Head of Design)

Status: Founding Team

Past Experience: Creative director and designer for brands like Apple, Prada, Nike, and Salomon; ex-032c and Mugler.

Current Mission: Oversees and builds the visual identity and branding of the whole ecosystem, including custom fonts, logos, and UI/UX design for newOS and marketing.

Salimi Akill (Tech Ecosystem)

Status: Founding team

Past Experience: Educator and designer from Accra, Ghana to New York; founded Newforum, now the media arm of Newfoundation.

Current Mission: Manages Newforum operations, including interviews with decentralized AI founders and key players.

Franchesko Romanovic (Culture Ecosystem)

Status: Founding team

Past Experience: Central Saint Martins graduate; curator for galleries in Tokyo and Shanghai; involved with Schon magazine, Nylon Japan.

Current Mission: Develops content marketing strategies, research writings, and ecosystem growth focused on contemporary visual arts and web3 culture.

Leopold Haller (AI Research Advisor)

Status: Advisor

Past Experience: Ex-Google Research, co-founder of Agentic AI; pioneer in agents and RL.

Current Mission: Works with Sofiane on refining the protocol to align with machine learning advancements.

Erika Mann (Compliance Advisor)

Status: Advisor

Past Experience: Former European Parliament member; advisor at ICANN, ex-Meta Public Policy.

Current Mission: Guides the team on EU regulations, including MICA and the AI Act.

Tony Wang (Strategy Advisor)

Status: Advisor

Past Experience: Ex-Google, SSENSE; angel investor and advisor to Prada, Sequoia Capital, and Uniswap.

Current Mission: Supports consumer strategy and relations with cultural and technological players.

Scott Moore (Web3 Development Advisor)

Status: Advisor

Past Experience: Co-founder of Gitcoin and Public Works; pioneer in public goods funding through quadratic funding and DAOs.

Current Mission: Supports IPSP and Newcoin adoption within the Ethereum developer ecosystem and investor relations