The team behind Raiku.

Engineers and market-structure professionals, building execution infrastructure for Solana.

Leadership

The executives running protocol, growth, and operations.

Founder and CEO
Robin A. Nordnes
Founded Raiku in 2024 and leads the company. Previously held a technical leadership role at Elixir Capital and was a solutions architect at Outlier Ventures. Holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Neuroscience from King's College London.
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Head of Engineering
Konrad Stepniak
Leads protocol, infrastructure, and validator-client engineering. Previously at Eiger, BP, and Amazon, where he was a technical lead on Alexa and Polly.
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Head of Growth
Waleed Al Zuhair
Leads growth at Raiku, where he was the first hire and helped build the business from scratch. Previously led digital assets at a multi-billion dollar family office in London, helped found an investment firm in Abu Dhabi, and began his career at UBS.
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Head of Business Ops
Amy Gleeson
Runs the company's operations, finance, and governance. Previously Senior Executive Assistant at Parity Technologies, the company behind Polkadot. Holds a BA from The University of Manchester.
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Advisory Board

Independent advisers from across institutional trading, asset management, private banking, and financial infrastructure.

Chair
Iraj Ispahani
Board leadership, origination, and family offices
Iraj Ispahani is the CEO of Ispahani Advisory Ltd. and is based in London. Iraj is Board Member of the Ispahani Group, a family business founded in 1820.
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Independent Member
Carl S. Bang
Regulated asset managers and private markets
Carl S. Bang is Founder and CEO of CB Capital Management & Advisors. He previously led Sun Life Institutional Investments, served as CIO of the Qatar Foundation Endowment, and held senior roles at State Street Global Advisors, including Chairman, President and CEO of its European and Canadian businesses.
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Martin Keller
Regulated asset managers and private banks
Martin Keller is a Swiss banker with more than 30 years in capital markets, asset management and private banking. A board member of QCore Fund Management, BFI Bullion and a European Private Equity company in Switzerland.
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Kerim Derhalli
Market infrastructure and trading venues
Kerim Derhalli is a global financial services and technology executive with more than 30 years’ experience building, transforming and leading businesses across banking, capital markets, fintech, payments and artificial intelligence.
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Independent Member
Rob Reoch
Payments and stablecoin platforms
Rob Reoch has 40 years' experience in financial services across investment banking, structured credit, asset management, risk management and financial technology, in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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