Algorand Foundation US, Inc. Board of Directors

Bill Barhydt - born in New York City, and currently residing in Silicon Valley - is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer in Internet technologies for 30 years.

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, the world's leading crypto investment platform. Abra has onboarded hundreds of thousands of crypto investors into this new and exciting space. Bill is a well known advisor and investor in dozens of start-ups and venture funds ranging from consumer Internet, and frontier tech to crypto and space.

Before starting Abra, Bill spent 10 years working on mobile money and financial inclusion projects throughout the world and consulted to many governments, aid agencies and telecoms on mobile banking deployments. This led Bill to Bitcoin in 2011.

As a globally recognized expert in Internet and Mobile technologies Bill has presented at over 100 conferences including The World Economic Forum, The US State Department, The Mobile World Congress and TED where he gave the first ever TED Talk on Bitcoin in 2011 when bitcoin was trading at $3.

Bill started his career working at the CIA on secure messaging systems and at NASA developing infrastructure for the early Internet. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all know and use everyday such as https and hosted email.

Alex Holmes is a globally recognized leader in fintech with deep expertise in payments, digital assets, banking and compliance. He currently serves as Executive Vice Chairman of United Texas Bank and as a Board and Audit Committee Member at Bitcoin Depot (NASDAQ: BTM). He also serves as a strategic advisor, investor, and board member to several early stage fintech and payments companies, including Orobit.ai, Brightwell, and Jingle Pay.

From 2016 to 2024, Alex served as Chairman and CEO of MoneyGram International, where he transformed the company into a global fintech powerhouse spanning more than 200 countries and territories. Over his sixteen-year tenure, he also held executive roles as CFO and COO, earning a reputation for operational excellence, disciplined risk management, and deep expertise in global regulatory compliance.

A pioneer in blockchain adoption, Alex spearheaded MoneyGram’s integration of distributed ledger technology in 2019 and stablecoins in 2022—well ahead of the industry curve. He also initiated the landmark MoneyGram/Haas F1 Team sponsorship in 2022 and led the company’s $2 billion sale to Madison Dearborn Partners in 2023.

Renowned for driving innovation while fostering people-first cultures, Alex has championed initiatives focused on financial inclusion, compliance excellence, and employee engagement. Under his leadership, MoneyGram was recognized as one of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies, and awarded Best Place to Work, and Top Workplace (2022–2025).

Alex holds a B.S. in Accounting and an M.S. in Information Technology from the University of Colorado. He also serves on the non-profit board of Vogel Alcove and is a member of YPO Global One.

A frequent commentator on global payments and financial policy, Alex has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, CoinDesk, CNN, and Bloomberg, and is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences worldwide.

Michael Mosier co-founded Arktouros pllc, a legal boutique of former in-house counsel and senior government officials dedicated to emergent technology, financial integrity, and civil society, and helped launch ex/ante, an early-stage fund investing in tools that advance human agency and democratic resilience. He twice has been the first in-house counsel at tech companies: Chainalysis (blockchain analytics) and EspressoSystems (configurable privacy and cross-chain composability).

In public service, Michael served as Acting Director, Deputy Director, and the first Digital Innovation Officer of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN); Counselor (for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Associate Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering & Asset Recovery Section; and a Director at the White House National Security Council. He also serves as a board member of the Security Alliance (SEAL), a nonprofit coordination center for crypto threat intelligence sharing, emergency response, and industry security standards development, and the DeFi Education Foundation, advocating for sound DeFi policy, protecting the rights of developers and users, and building understanding of decentralized finance.

Rebecca Rettig is the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Legal Officer at Jito Labs, overseeing all operational, legal, policy and regulatory matters. As COO, Rebecca drives operational strategy and organizational efficiency across the Company, focusing on scaling Jito’s current and future initiatives and processes. In this capacity, she works cross-functionally to optimize workflows and build systems that enable the team to deliver on its technical mission.

As CLO, Rebecca navigates the complex and evolving legal and regulatory landscape surrounding blockchain technology. She leads Jito Labs’ approach to compliance, risk management, and strategy, while also working to shape global policy on some of the most challenging issues in the space, including decentralized finance (DeFi) and maximal extractable value (MEV). Rebecca is a pioneer in shaping legal and regulatory frameworks for blockchain systems and applications, advising on matters including decentralization, token launches and mechanisms, DeFi, structuring, and decentralized governance.

Rebecca began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; she was a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and currently is Of Counsel at Arktouros pllc, a boutique law firm specializing in cutting-edge technology companies. She has been recognized as one of Crain’s Top Women Lawyers in New York City.

Rebecca is a member of the New York Department of Financial Services’ Virtual Currency Advisory Group and previously served as a member of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee’s Digital Asset Subcommittee. She also serves as a board member of the DeFiEducation Fund.

Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation as its CEO, Staci ran the Center for Financial Markets and the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on Fintech and financial innovation, capital market development, crypto/blockchain, and development finance. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London for eight years. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior economist roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for blockchain technology to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve financial inclusion and access to capital. Staci sits on the boards of the Algorand Foundation and the Global Blockchain Business Council. She also serves on the advisory committees of the U.S. Financial Technology Association and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.