The Vela Exchange team is committed to building the next frontier of decentralized finance.
Our Team
Our team is comprised of professionals with extensive experience across
DeFi, TradFi, application development, and management consulting.

Travis Skweres
Founder, CTO
Former BCG, Portal Finance, CoinMkt

Dan Peng
Co-founder, CPO
Former BCG, Headstorm

Berke Sengel
Head of Partnerships
Former Rome Blockchain Labs, Master in Digital Currencies via University of Nicosia

Anthony Oko
Ops & Analytics
Former RelayChain, Maverick Trading

RP
Marketing Director
Former Balancer, Fjord curator

Philip Acho
Lead Engineer
5+ years blockchain engineering experience

Advisors
Our advisory board empowers us to make strategic decisions powered by
diverse, battle-tested experience.

Danish Chaudhry
CEO, Bitcoin.com Exchange

Lucas Kozinski
Founder, Moonwell

Jeff Tang
COO, Hermeneutic Trading

George Burke
Co-Founder, Portal

Don Ho
Managing Director, Quantstamp

Jason Lee
ex Polygon