
Rani Haddad
Technologist
About
A versatile professional with deep technical expertise in cryptocurrency, business operations, venture capital, and cybersecurity, with a strong foundation in research and data analysis.
Originating from Lebanon, I founded a successful company in Dubai and am now based in California, bringing a global perspective to my work.
Fluent in both English and Arabic, I thrive in multicultural environments and excel at bridging diverse markets and industries.
Education
Work Experience
A superchain block explorer.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Spearheaded user feedback initiatives, collaborating with product and engineering teams to prioritize and define new product features based on customer insights.
User-Centric Strategy: Led all user feedback conversations, ensuring the product development cycle was closely aligned with user needs and pain points.
Community Building: Founded and nurtured a thriving Discord community, cultivating a dedicated group of power users.
Growth Marketing: Launched and managed social media activations, resulting in significant traffic increases and engagement spikes, directly contributing to product adoption.
Data-Driven Insights: Conducted in-depth data analysis and visualized user behavior patterns to optimize user flow and identify key sticky features, enhancing overall user experience.
Onchain liquid hedge fund that focused on staking infrastructure and yield generating opportunities across DeFi applications.
Blockchain Research & Curation: Identified and curated promising Cosmos blockchains with vibrant communities and high-quality products, strategically selecting networks to establish and bootstrap active Proof-of-Stake (POS) validators.
Brand Development & Community Engagement: Played a key role in building the Gidorah brand by actively supporting the communities where we have validators, fostering trust and credibility to drive increased staking delegations.
Network Building & Relationship Management: Developed and maintained a robust rolodex of founders and key teams within the DeFi space, leveraging these relationships to gain strategic insights and partnerships.
Yield Optimization & Investment Strategy: Focused on maximizing investor returns by deploying capital in high-risk, high-reward DeFi protocols across multiple blockchain ecosystems, leveraging strategic insights to enhance yield generation.
Early stage VC firm investing in healthtech, mobility, and deeptech.
Operational Excellence: Ensured seamless operations at Verve by initiating, tracking, and managing all key operational activities.
Investment Decision Support: Contributed to investment decisions by managing the deal pipeline, conducting due diligence, and providing research support on companies within my area of technical expertise.
Portfolio Company Support: Actively supported portfolio companies by offering strategic guidance and operational assistance.
Documentation & Investor Relations: Managed all critical documentation, including investor memos and communications, ensuring clear, timely, and accurate information flow between Verve and its stakeholders.
Cybersecurity consulting services.
Strategic Leadership & Service Portfolio Development: As a founding member, played a pivotal role in establishing the initial strategy and developing a comprehensive service portfolio, laying the foundation for the company’s growth and market positioning.
IT & Business Operations Management: Led critical IT and business operation initiatives on Salesforce and JIRA, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic objectives and driving efficiency across key processes.
Cross-Functional Team Alignment: Facilitated collaboration among cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless end-to-end service delivery and successfully driving multiple high-impact projects to completion.
Partnership Building & Stakeholder Management: Successfully built and maintained strategic partnerships, managing relationships with key stakeholders across MENA and Europe to enhance service offerings and expand market reach.
Family owned real estate development company.
Strategic Leadership & Team Motivation: As a Managing Partner in a family-owned real estate development firm with over 100 employees, led the creation, management, and execution of project plans. Communicated the company’s vision and objectives effectively to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams.
Operational Excellence & Efficiency: Delivered key IT systems and spearheaded digital transformation projects, enhancing operational service quality. Developed and implemented procedures that significantly improved cross-functional team efficiency and overall project execution.
Side Projects
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Project Management and Ops:
Notion, Airtable, Salesforce, JIRA, Webflow, Framer, Zapier, Monday -
Code:
SQL, Python, Javascript -
DBMS:
Mongo
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Grew an online presence and organic following by posting my thoughts and insights about tech.
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Twitter -> 8.4k followers
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Farcaster -> 13.5k followers
Advice about startups, businesses, work/life balance, and entrepreneurship. Sourced from all his essays and podcasts.
I analyze food labels for harmful ingredients and suggest healthier alternatives. Snap a picture of any food label with ingredients clearly showing.
Creates stories from Pixelglyph NFT data.