The XRP Ledger Foundation has introduced a new leadership team, naming executives across strategy, engineering, operations, and community as it looks to coordinate work around the XRP Ledger more visibly with developers, validators, and ecosystem stakeholders.
XRP Ledger Foundation Names New Leadership Team
The XRP Ledger Foundation announced the team in a post on X, presenting the group as the people responsible for day-to-day work across the organization. “The XRP Ledger Foundation exists to support the XRP Ledger and everyone shaping it. Today we introduce the new team driving that work day-to-day – the people you’ll be hearing from, building with, and running into at events throughout the year.”
Brett Mollin has been named Executive Director, placing him in charge of the Foundation’s strategic direction and coordination with its board. The Foundation described his role as spanning long-term planning and internal alignment across engineering, community, operations, and partnerships. “Brett leads the Foundation; you’ve heard from him already earlier this year. He sets the strategic direction, works with the Board on long-term priorities, and makes sure the moving parts of engineering, community, operations, and partnerships are in lockstep with each other. With his decade-long experience in the space, he knows the history and is looking towards the future.”
Denis Angell has been named Chief Technology Officer and will lead the Foundation’s engineering work. The Foundation said Angell is transitioning from XRPL Labs to the XRPLF and will oversee technical direction, amendment work, and standards tied to production releases. “His fingerprints are all over the XRPL already. Denis is one of the most prolific contributors to the XRPL codebase and has been deep in protocol work for years. He is transitioning from XRPL Labs to the XRPLF, where he will lead engineering: the technical direction of the Foundation’s contributions to the ledger, amendment work, and the standards that ship into production – all with XRPL’s core philosophies in mind.”
New XRPLF Team Focuses on Engineering and Community
The Foundation also named Rene Huijsen as Director of Operations, assigning him responsibility for financial coordination and operational support across the entity. Huijsen previously worked at Ripple as Director of Payment Operations and was part of the Bank for International Settlements’ Cross-border Payments Interoperability and Extension taskforce, where the Foundation said he worked with payment infrastructure leaders and regulators globally.
Hussein Zangana, widely known in the XRP community as Vet, has been named Director of Community. His remit includes ecosystem storytelling, XRPLF communications, social presence, validator and developer engagement, events, community liaison work, and content creation. The Foundation highlighted his prior contributions across the XRP ecosystem, including running infrastructure, drafting amendment proposals and documentation, creating educational material, hosting X Spaces and livestreams, and co-founding XRP Cafe.
Vet also confirmed the move in his own X post, framing the appointment as a return to long-running community work. “Big life update. I’m joining the new XRP Ledger Foundation leadership team as a Director, Community. Very excited to accelerate the XRP ecosystem with very powerful team members on my side.” He added: “There is a lot in flight and the timing is perfect. Back to the roots!”
The Foundation said its next phase will involve collaboration with XRP ecosystem stakeholders across both community and technical work. “We’re starting to collaborate with XRP ecosystem stakeholders to advance every area of community and technology – openly, transparently and with the public. We want to build and advocate alongside all of you. The power of the XRP community has always been its many layers rallying together behind a shared vision, and that’s what we’re here to strengthen and deliver on.”
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