Solana Foundation Bolsters Team with Binance Vet and Polygon Executive
The Solana Foundation has made two significant hires to drive institutional adoption and payments on its network. Rachel Conlan, Binance's former global chief marketing officer, joins as chief strategy officer, responsible for institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth, and go-to-market strategies.
Conlan brings three years of experience at Binance, where she held senior roles before OKX, CAA Sports, and Havas. Her new role will focus on expanding Solana's use case as a payments infrastructure.
Jamal Raees joins the Solana Foundation from Polygon Labs as general manager of payments. He previously worked at Bridge and Wyre, with expertise in payment companies and enterprises.
The hires come amid significant developments on the network, including the reduction of block times to 250 milliseconds, a nearly 17% speedup. This is the third of four planned reductions and aims to rework the network's market structure for hosting liquid markets.