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Matthew Crooks is MANTRA's Chief Technology Officer and studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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John Patrick Mullin
John Patrick Mullin is the co-founder and CEO of MANTRA, a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tongji University, and a strategic advisor to HeliSwap. He holds a dual Master's degree in Management and Economics from the European Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany and Tongji University, respectively.

Jayant Ramanand
Jayant Ramanand is the co-founder of MANTRA and was responsible for institutional sales at Hex Trust.

Janesh Balchandani
Janesh Balchandani is a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Pharos and has previously worked with organizations and projects such as MANTRA, REEF, Solana Foundation and Chainlink. He holds an undergraduate degree from Manipal University, Jaipur.

Rodrigo Sottomayor
Rodrigo Sottomayor is the Chief of Staff of MANTRA, formerly the Chief of Staff and Ecosystem Leader of PrivateAI and the Senior Chief Recruitment Officer of Protocol Labs. He graduated from European universities and Harvard Business School in the United States.

Ekin Gultepe
Ekin Gultepe is the Managing Director of MANTRA. He graduated from Northeastern University

Martin Halford
Martin Halford is the technical director of MANTRA. He is a graduate of Monash University and RMIT University, Australia.

Nicholas Krapels
Nicholas Krapels is MANTRA's Chief Strategy Officer and an American author, educator and entrepreneur who has been permanently based in China since 2011. He attended Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, specializing in insurance, business strategy and corporate risk assessment, and received his PhD from East China Normal University.

Kate Kim
Kate Kim is currently responsible for business development and strategy at MANTRA. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Kate Kim is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Ainsley Yeung
Ainsley Yeung is Head of Ecosystem Development at MANTRA and Senior Manager of Business Development and Marketing at HeliSwap. Prior to that, she worked at Soma Finance and OSL. Ainsley Yeung received her undergraduate degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

André Ringdorfer
André Ringdorfer is Senior DeFi Product Manager at MANTRA. Previously he was responsible for strategic program management at PayPal and a research assistant at UN ESCAP. André holds a Master's degree in Global Management from Fudan University.