Alin S. Dragos heads strategic partnerships for the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, and also leads product management for the DCI's efforts on Layer 2. Before MIT, he was a vice president at First Data Corporation, leading a family of products for banking the unbanked. In this role, he was responsible for a $200M P&L and an organization of ~200 employees. He also spent three years in the startup world, raising seed funds, scaling up business models and managing a post-acquisition integration. Alin holds an MBA from University of Arkansas and an MS from MIT.