Beniamin Mincu is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Elrond. He is a well-known entrepreneur and early blockchain investor who has invested and supported over 30 blockchain projects to date. He aims to accelerate the emergence of an open and permissionless financial system. Before Elrond, Mincu served as Chief Executive Officer of Metachain Capital, a digital asset investment fund he co-founded with this brother in 2016. As a part of the NEM core team, Mincu helped take the project from a Bitcointalk post to a global billion dollar product.