John Nahas is the Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs, supporting the Avalanche blockchain and its ecosystem. In his capacity, John oversees expanding the Avalanche Ecosystem with a focus on wallets, assets, and applications across Decentralized Finance (DeFi), NFTs, Enterprise, Institutional and Capital Markets, Exchanges/ Fiat On-Ramps, and Gaming. Prior to Ava Labs, John was founding team at TokenVault which was acquired by Franklin Templeton. He has degrees in Public Diplomacy (MPD), Political Science, and Communication from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.