Sam Wellalage , BSC, MA

WIC Search

Your on-demand in-house recruitment team at 80% less cost.

Chief Economist and Recruiter

WorkInCrypto.Global

Scaling Blockchain, Crypto and Web3 Teams Since 2019: Csuit to $100K salaries

Recent appointments: 
Director of Operations: Sport and Blockchain Tech
Head of Business Development: Cloud Startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product 
CTO
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue

Founder and executive search recruiter

ScalingCrypto teams since 2019. Our business has two functions: executive search and 2. Crypto recruitment for mid and junior level roles

Founder

Untapped Future

"untapped Future" is a charity I set up to address my lifelong dream to support underprivileged children. Coming from an underprivileged background, I know how life-changing it is to have equal opportunities for children growing up in underdeveloped countries in Asia. 10% of the business profit from WorkInCrypto.Global goes towards this charity to help identify children with sporting and education talent.

Chief Executive Officer

Scaling Unicorns

Hiring Ops Leaders and Sr Tech for Tech, AI and FinTech industry. Salary ranges from $120K to $400K.

Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and AI, Python Engineers, Data Engineer, Cloud Security, Director, CEO, Full Stack Engineers, Backend Engineer

Founder and Principal Recruiter

5iveTech Recruitment

What makes us different from the rest? It is in the questions we ask and the process we follow! We go beyond checklists and explore what it is actually driving people in their work.  

Track record to date:
Our last 100 placements have a 99% retention rate. 98% of the candidates we've placed in the last 2 years are still in their jobs today. Most of them got promoted

Examples of our placement in the past 12 months (contract and permanents):
Tech Leadership: CTO, Engineering Manager, Head of Development, Tech Architects and Lead Devs 
C-Suit: CEO, Chief Operations Officer, Director of Ops, Head of Client Services
Compliance: Head of Compliance, Director of compliance, AML/KYC/ Crypto specific compliance
Marketing: CMO, Marketing Manager, UX/UI Designer
Sofware Engineering: Blockchain, C#, Java, C++, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Golang, Javascript, React, Gatsby, SOLIDITY, Smart Contracts,PHP

Industries: Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Asset Management, Banking, Capital Markets, Gaming, Gambling, 

We ask intuitive questions to determine your suitability and we make recommendations based on your skillset. Whether you are a CEO, recruitment head or a junior-level candidate, we provide expert advice which transforms your talent pipeline and careers.

Managing Director and Founder

rethink

I built the Ruby on Rails practice from scratch at Rethink.

Awards and recognitions: Rising Star at Rethink group (London, Birmingham, Manchester and Ireland).

Technology Recruiter

British Transport Police

Human Resource and Resource allocation for London Police

HR Resourcing Officer

Keele University

Recruitment Officer

Sri Lanka Badminton 

I first represented Sri Lanka when I was 12  years old. At the age of 19, I became the national number 1. I was able to travel the world and represent my country. I loved every minute of it. 

Starting out it was hard, financially as well as mentally.  But through hard work, sheer determination and self-belief I overcame every obstacle. I'm blessed to be able to play an individual sport at the highest level, and that experience still shapes me and reassures me that there is nothing you cannot achieve if you beleive!

Professional Athlete

Crypto Executive Search Recruiter | Ex -Pro Athlete | CEO

Separating the good from the great!

I have been scaling Crypto/Blockchain/ Web3 companies since 2019, hiring C-suit to Engineers.

Most roles ranges from $100,000 - $400,00K per year.

Here are some case studies of how I did exemplary work for exemplary people and companies: 

1. I am the exclusive and retained Blockchain recruiter for the PSG football club, one of the world's top 5 best football clubs owned by the government of Qatar. I successfully recruited their first Head of Blockchain to facilitate the club's transition into the Web3 space and help them earn millions of additional revenue streams.

2. I recruited the entire company (C suit, engineers, and ops) for the former chairman of Macquarie Bank Group, who now runs a 12 billion-dollar hedge fund. 

3. I helped another market leader, Chiliz and Socios, hire a Director of Operations for their newly set crypto team and several other roles.

How do I achieve these results?

I use a metric-driven, scientifically designed qualification process that hiring managers and candidates undergo. Thus, I have a 100% success rate over 500 positions filled and a 98% retention rate.  

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Executive Search Recruiter

Executive Search / C-suit Recruitment in  Crypto. Blockchain and Metaverse Sector

Recent appointments: 
Head of Business Development: Web3 startup
Head of Web3 and Metaverse for PSG Football club: one of the most well-known sports brands in the world: £600 Million revenue last year
Web3 Advisor to the board: beIn Media Group: £1 Billion in revenue last year
COO to a crypto payment application: 12 Billion Dollars under management
CEO to a brand new crypto exchange
Head of Product - crypto
CTO - crypto
Chief Operating Officer: Crypto exchange: £400 Million in Revenue last year

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Regional Representative EU

European Blockchain Association e.V.

Started as APAC Representative I am now in charge of the growth of the European Blockchain Association Ecosystem. Developing regulatory and market researches on blockchain technologies. Thought leadership talks and public speakings.

Head of Growth

Digital Euro Association

Research Fellow

EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

Expert Panel Member 

Obligate

Partnership management - Business development

Blockchain Ecosystem Manager

Hyperledger

My role is about to support and promote operations through Hyperledger blockchain framework solutions. I am focus on China operations, actively working within Trade Finance, Supply Chain and Capital Market SIG.
I am one of the funding members of the Italian Chapter.

Project Lead - SIG Member

TOTTA  |  Trans-Oceanic Trade Tech Alliance

Advisor and Contributor

CarbonBlue Innovations

Business Advisor

Shanghai Konosko Investment Consulting Co., LTD

I worked as Investment Manager at Shanghai Konosko Investment & Consulting Services Co. ltd.
The role is about fully supporting investments operations from and to China, providing corporate legal, accounting, financial services and strategic governance advisory for the market.
I am also in charge of developing and managing international partnerships for the company with other potential players, in fact during my career I built professional cooperation network throughout Europe, Africa, South and North America.
For each project involved I managed a small team work made by different professionals (accountants, lawyers, managers) and dealt with planning, structuring and executing different kind of investments: M&A, JVC, VC- PE for early stage finance, and other kinds of international cooperation.

Investment Manager

Konosko Group Legal Accounting Investment - Italian branch - Studio Legale Spaggiari

Legal Consultant at Shanghai Konosko Group -Italian Branch- Studio Legale Spaggiari

Legal Consultant

I am cross cultural professional with background working experience in corporate development, legal and strategy-consulting advisory for investments in EU and Apac.

In my career I dealt with developing and managing  international partnerships projects  for investments from Europe, Africa, South America and China.
I am passionate for technology and how it can be implemented into life and society for creating new processes.

Since the beginning of my career I developed a specific education plan in order to join my passion for
technologies (AI – Blockchain overall) and interests  like for neuroscience and economics with my working
activity related to investments and corporate advisory.

Today I am freelanced helping FIs, Tech providers and corporations along their digital transformation journey and achieving short, medium and long business objectives.

I am active member in DLT  communities and involved in projects related to Consortium corporate formation, product business development mainly in finance operations with a focus in Apac, EU and Latam markets. 

I am currently Head of Growth for the European Blockchain Association, also sitting in other fast forward thinking bodies and I am DIF Contributor.

Personally, I am curious about life, I learned to move my mind outside the box and got used analyzing myself on a critical thinking for personal growth and development.
I am sports practitioner and I firmly believe that sport can be seen as a life metaphor.

The recipe for doing your best is loving what you do.

Eugenio Reggianini

Institutions exploring blockchain often face the same dilemma: how can compliance, privacy, and open-network settlement coexist without fragmenting infrastructure?

My latest blogpost on #ethresear.ch examines a technical direction that tries to answer this—by combining institutional identity frameworks with privacy-preserving verification layers on Ethereum.

The core idea is simple to state but not trivial to implement: can institutions authenticate users and enforce compliance without bringing sensitive data on-chain, and without creating close permissioned silos that undermine interoperability?

The piece argues that a layered approach using issuer-anchored identity, on #EBSI, zero-knowledge proofs, and #privacy pools could provide a harmonized execution environment for regulated actors. 

More over the work intends to overcome common assumptions:
• institutional identity does not always require institutional control of the ledger,
• privacy does not imply opacity, and
• compliance can be enforced through verifiable proofs, not data exposure.

I hope this work can help to align institutional requirements with emerging Ethereum proposals, especially as the ecosystem moves toward more modular sequencing, pre-confirmation, and client-level proof verification.

Outside of the EU context, there are other institutional identity networks around the globe, such as #Lacchain in Latam and Caribbean zones or #BSN in China etc etc.. So defining a standardized way for interacting with such institutional projects may be beneficial for #Ethereum institutional adoption globally!

Many thanks to Mike, Jose, Oleksandr, and few fellow from the EF teams, who personally took time to help me in reviewing and I hope you enjoy the work!

Business & Product Development Manager | Corporate & Legal Advisor in the Tech and Financial industry | Researcher & Builder in the DLT space.

Open article: Implementing Privacy Pools on EBSI for Institutional Programmable Privacy & Compliance by ethresear.ch

Implementing Privacy Pools on EBSI for Institutional Programmable Privacy & Compliance

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