Hi all, Brett here :). Thank you for the kind introduction and nomination, very excited to have the opportunity to more actively contribute towards CoW DAO as a grants committee member.
As Chen mentioned, my current focus is co-leading Cherry Crypto, a first check crypto fund. We’ve been long-time supporters of CoW Protocol and are active participants in governance (eg. forum posts and CoW DAO voting history on Snapshot).
I’ve written more about my background here, in the Safe governance forum, but to be concise my past is technical. I spent 2017-2020 as Aragon’s lead engineer/CTO and had the opportunity to contribute towards leading projects such as Synthetix or Decentraland in either technical integrations or as a security board/multisig member.
I’m a strong believer in grants funding as an opportunity that can both further decentralize the DAO from the core NoMEV team as well as sparking the creativity of a wider contributor base. I have a long history of reviewing and supporting grantees ranging from the smallest to largest (hundreds to hundreds of thousands) and have also been across the table helping write grant proposals. As a testament to this belief, at the moment I’m currently serving as a grants committee member for Safe DAO in its initial Wave 1 grants program that has funded ~$500k into early stage projects consistent with the Safe’s ecosystem KPIs.
I’m looking very forward to what the next year of CoW grantees will bring!