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Join the HairDAO community

HairDAO is shaped by an active and motivated community of researchers, developers, doctors, funders, and content creators. The community places heavy emphasis on open-source: everyone is welcome to join and contribute. If you would like to contribute to our community, join our Discord, introduce yourself, and we’ll help you get started.

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HairDAO Working Groups

Research & Investment

The purpose of Research & Investment is to analyze and ideate the most promising treatments to hair loss, reach out to potential investment opportunities (researchers, companies, and labs), make investment recommendations to the HairDAO community, and execute deals on behalf of the HairDAO community. Relevant experience includes biological research and investment due diligence.

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Awareness

The purpose of Awareness is to grow the meme of HAIR by any and all means of communication, including but not limited to short-form social media, long-form content production, and in-person information distrubtion. Relevant skills include writing, design, film and audio production and editing, public speaking, and other content creation.

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Strategy & Governance

The purpose of Strategy & Governance is to develop a cohesive financial and operational strategy for the DAO. Strategy & Governance members must have contributed to the DAO for at least three months, and can be removed by HAIR holders at any time. The group’s responsibility is to propose strategies for the allocation of the Treasury, including the DAO’s research assets, tangential technology development, and working capital. The group must ratify the ultimate decisions of HAIR holders as the signers of the Treasury’s wallet.

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Technical Development

The purpose of Technical Development is to optimize HairDAO’s operations with technology. Relevant skills include full-stack programming, data engineering and science, design, and international healthcare and incorporation legal expertise.

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HairDAO Contributors

Andrew Bakst

Graduated from Stanford, co-founder of HairDAO, co-founder of Bizantine Capital, and co-founder of The APIS. Self-taught technologist passionate about blockchain and biotech.

Awareness
Research & Investment
Strategy & Governance
Technical Development
Andrew Verbinnen

Graduated from Hamilton College, co-founder of Foster Cove Capital: long-term, value-add partners within crypto. He is a co-founder of HairDAO and one of the architects of its governance systems.

Awareness
Research & Investment
Strategy & Governance
Technical Development
Dr. Carlos Wesley

Graduated from Princeton before earning his M.D. from Yale. Currently runs one of the top surgical/non-surgical hair restoration practices in NYC. Is a member of the American Medical Association, the ISHRS, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS), among other organizations.

Research & Investment
Herbert

Herbert is a world-renowned researcher in delivery vehicle technology.

Research & Investment
Strategy & Governance
AJT123

A computational biologist and Web3 engineer, AJT received her Master's from Harvard and a PhD from Oxford. She leads the HairForce in our in silico research, AI content creation, and business development.

Research & Investment
Awareness
Strategy & Governance
Technical Development
Charles Pardoe

Graduated from University of St. Andres with an MA Hons. in business management and economics prior to receiving his MiM at UCL in Business Administration. Currently runs a retail start-up based in Guatemala.

Research & Investment
Awareness
Benji Leibowitz

Benji has a background in computational biology, biotech venture capital, investment banking, and product management. He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Northwestern University. He began losing his hair at 24.

Research & Investment
Strategy & Governance
Technical Development
Awareness
Jumpman

A self-taught biologist, Jumpman has become one of the most prolific hair loss researchers in the world. He continues to push forward the cutting-edge across numerous targets, both generating his own and analyzing those created by others.

Research & Investment
Si Maclennan

Branding, communications and graphic design expert partnering with builders to create memorable customer experiences and valued identities.

Awareness
Technical Development
Rolando Perez, PhD

Rolando is an entrepreneur, scientist and engineer with a PhD and MS in bioengineering from Stanford University. Trained in synthetic biology, Rolando approaches problems and innovations from a first-principles physics and computational perspective.

Research & Investment
Dr. Alan Bauman

Dr. Alan J. Bauman, MD, ABHRS, IAHRS, FISHRS is a full-time hair transplant surgeon who founded his medical practice, Bauman Medical, in Boca Raton, FL in 1997 and has treated well over 30,000 patients, performed over 12,000 hair transplant procedures as well as over 10,000 regenerative procedures (ie. PRP, Cell Therapy and more) to date.

Research & Investment
Sminempepe

Sminempepe is an Electrical and Electronics Engineering student with a passion for blockchain technology and Web3, working in the crypto industry since 2019. He oversees internal operations, public communications, and data accumulation for AI models at HairDAO.

Technical Development
Awareness
Schmackofant

Interface designer and web developer with more than 15 years of experience in working on web applications

Technical Development
Kenici

Attending the University of Lagos and studying economics, Kenici as been contributing and working in the crypto space since 2020 as a content creator, video editor, and operations specialist. He’s devoted to HairDAO's success and solving hair loss once and for all.

Technical Development
Awareness
Justdoit

Experienced software engineer focused on web and mobile development, with a solid creative background in UI/UX design and animation along with exemplary organization, self-motivation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Technical Development
Cameron Sepahi

Attending USC studying economics and data science. Has been working in the crypto industry since 2020 due to his interest in blockchain.

Awareness
Research & Investment
Technical Development
Strategy & Governance
Nimish Garg

Graduated from Brown with a S.c.B in applied math-computer science and an A.B. in Economics, Nimish currently works as a quant trader at Optiver. He also volunteers at Karl Koehler's lab as a data scientist.

Awareness
Research & Investment
Arturo Rojas

Graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in chemical engineering with distinction. Arturo later joined Boston Consulting Group across several verticals in healthcare: MedTech, Pharma, Payor/Provider, and Public Sector. He is eager to support HairDAO.

Research & Investment
David Neufeld

Graduated with a cognitive science degree and is currently earning a master's degree at Freie Universität Berlin. Has been a long-time observer of the hair loss industry, enabling him to both research and spread awareness of HairDAO's vision.

Research & Investment
Awareness
Jesse Hudson

Jesse Hudson serves as general counsel for Molecule GmbH, the creators of the DeSci movement. He is also a core and legal team member of both HairDAO and VitaDAO. Jesse played a key role in architecting the IP-NFT infrastructure that HairDAO and all DeSci DAOs will use.

Technical Development
Strategy & Governance
Teddy Jungreis

Graduated from Stanford with a BS in Management Science & Engineering. Is a serial entrepreneur having started multiple consumer apps and products while in college. Upon graduation, he worked in a post-MBA role on Facebook's advertising team.

Research & Investment
Awareness
Ageless Partners

Ageless Partners operates as a worldwide health-services company that helps clients decipher the key mechanisms & root-causes of aging through various product offerings. Specifically, they do this by connecting clients with biohacking subject matter experts from across the world.

Research & Investment
Awareness

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