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Head of operations crypto: how to find 53 at 52 teams

By NAUT Research · · 7 min read

53 Head of operations crypto heads of operations at 52 project teams on NAUT, read 13 November 2026. Logos: Render, Band Protocol, Magna (acq. by Kraken), Plena Finance, RaveDAO, Sequence, Wormhole, Bitwise, Superstate, Succinct, Zodia Custody, peaq.

To find the head of operations at a crypto company, search the title on NAUT's People tab, open the company page to see who else runs the team, then check the title against the person's own X bio or the team's site before you write. NAUT tracks 53 head of operations crypto contacts at 52 project teams, read on 13 November 2026: 44 have LinkedIn on file, 24 an X handle and 31 Telegram.

Data note. Every count was read from NAUT's own database on 13 November 2026, read-only. A person counts when their record and their company are live, the company is a NAUT project, and the current title contains head of operations. 58 records at 57 companies matched. 3 were dropped because an outside source shows the person has left the seat or holds another title (at Elixir, Hyperbolic Labs and Phala). 1 was dropped because its company row joins a venture firm's description to a blockchain's X handle, a stored-text defect. 1 was dropped because neither the person nor the company has a NAUT page yet. That leaves 53 contacts at 52 teams; Wormhole has 2. 12 of the 58 records were put to outside sources: 6 were confirmed by 2 sources, 3 are the drops above, and 3 found no second page that states the title, so they stay on NAUT's record unconfirmed. The other 44 published rows were not checked outside NAUT. Written by the NAUT team.

How do I find the head of operations at a crypto company?

You find a crypto head of operations in 3 steps: the People tab, the company page, then the person's own bio.

  • The People tab says who. Search head of operations and NAUT returns people with that title and their company. 41 of the 53 carry the exact title. 12 carry a combined one, such as Head of Operations & BD at Hotstuff Labs or Head of Operations & Marketing at Wormhole, and 5 of those 12 also hold a co-founder title.
  • The company page says what else they run. Every project page lists its team with titles, so you can see whether operations sits with a co-founder or beside a separate BD lead. 22 of the 53 contacts sit at teams NAUT tags Infrastructure.
  • The bio says whether it is still true. Operations titles move with the person. Of the 12 records checked outside NAUT, 3 had moved on.
Find a crypto head of operations in 3 steps
  1. Search the People tabType head of operations; NAUT holds 53 at 52 project teams.
  2. Open the company pageRead the team list, as on Render, to see who else owns the decision.
  3. Check the bioConfirm the title on the person's X bio or the team's own site before you write.

Head of operations crypto lookup worked on Render

Here is the same lookup on 1 team, Render, which NAUT describes as a decentralized GPU rendering network.

  1. People tab. A search for head of operations returns Tristan Relly, Head of Operations at Render.
  2. Company page. The Render page lists him on the team, and his person page shows X, LinkedIn and Telegram on file.
  3. Bio check. His X bio gives the title Head of Operations at the Render Network Foundation, and a Render post on Medium names him in the same role. Both were read for NAUT's check of 13 November 2026.

The same 2-source check confirmed 5 more: Shine at Band Protocol, Julie Octaviano at Magna (acq. by Kraken), Sayuj Kumar at Plena Finance, Ronald Yung at RaveDAO and Ian Ha at Sequence. Magna's own about page lists the title, and so does the careers page of Sequence.

Which head of operations crypto contacts does NAUT hold?

NAUT holds 53 head of operations crypto contacts at 52 project teams, listed below by company in A to Z order with the title as NAUT stores it. "On file" names the channels NAUT holds for that person. 10 have no person page yet, so their names are not linked; their company pages are. The list covers every web3 head of operations NAUT holds at a project, from DAOs such as RaveDAO to custody firms such as Zodia Custody.

# Person Company Title On file
1 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn
2 Head of Operations LinkedIn
3 Head of Operations Page only
4 Head of Operations X, Telegram
5 Head of Operations, European LinkedIn, Telegram
6 Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
7 Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
8 Head Of Operations Page only
9 Head of Operations LinkedIn
10 Head of Operations LinkedIn
11 Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
12 Head of Operations LinkedIn
13 Head of Operations and Client Success LinkedIn, Telegram
14 Mamading Ceesay Head of Operations and AI Integration X, LinkedIn, Telegram
15 Head of Operations LinkedIn
16 Head of Operations & BD LinkedIn
17 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
18 Head of Operations LinkedIn
19 Sarah George Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
20 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
21 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
22 Nayef Zarrour Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
23 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn
24 Head of Operations Page only
25 Head of Operations and Project Management LinkedIn
26 Head of Operations X, Telegram
27 Sean Shanahan Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
28 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
29 Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
30 Aydin Akpinar Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
31 Co-Founder & Head of Operations & Product Lead LinkedIn, Telegram
32 Co-founder & Head of Operations X, LinkedIn
33 Co-founder & Head of Operations LinkedIn
34 Head of Operations and Gaming X
35 Head of Operations Telegram
36 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
37 Head of Operations Page only
38 Head of Operations Page only
39 Head of Operations LinkedIn
40 Co-Founder, Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
41 Head of Operations LinkedIn
42 Polina Shvetsova Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
43 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
44 Samuel Blackband Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
45 John Packel Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
46 Beatrice Wang Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
47 Michael Gonzales Head of Operations LinkedIn, Telegram
48 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn
49 Head of Operations & Marketing X, LinkedIn, Telegram
50 Head of Operations and Co-Founder X, LinkedIn, Telegram
51 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
52 Head of Operations X, LinkedIn, Telegram
53 Head of Operations LinkedIn

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

How many crypto operations leads can you reach, and on which channel?

47 of the 53 have LinkedIn or X on file, 21 have both, and 17 have X, LinkedIn and Telegram together. 5 have none of the 3, so their person page is the only route: the contacts at AxisFDN, Coldware, Port3, StablR and StakeLayer.

"Exact" is the plain Head of Operations title; "2nd role" adds a second role to it.

Title People LinkedIn X Telegram
Exact 41 33 18 24
2nd role 12 11 6 7
All 53 44 24 31

LinkedIn is the widest channel for this seat, at 44 of 53. Telegram reaches 31, more than X at 24.

What a BD lead, founder or investor does with a head of operations

The operations lead usually runs vendors, events and internal tooling, so the seat often signs off on services. A crypto COO title is a separate search on NAUT and is not counted here.

  • A BD lead selling a service pitches the operations lead for tools, custody or events. At 5 of the 53 teams the same person is a co-founder, as at Superstate and Sequence, so 1 note reaches a founder.
  • A founder raising reads who runs operations at the teams a fund already backs, then asks that person how the fund works with its companies after the round.
  • An investor sourcing reads the combined titles: Head of Operations & BD at Hotstuff Labs puts deal talks and day-to-day running with 1 person.
Reach a crypto operations lead
  1. Pick the teamStart from the 52 teams; 22 of the 53 contacts sit at Infrastructure teams.
  2. Read the full title12 of the 53 add a second role, such as BD or marketing.
  3. Check the seat3 of 12 records checked outside NAUT had moved on.
  4. Pick 1 channel44 have LinkedIn on file, 31 Telegram and 24 X.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Crypto contact data accuracy: 86 of 100 X handles, 0 suspended.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes: a people search with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=head%20of%20operations and the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns people whose name, handle or title matches, 5 credits a call, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/render returns 1 team with its people for another 5. The calls and plans are on the API docs and the pricing page. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reach them.

Head of operations crypto FAQ

How do I find the head of operations at a crypto company?

Search head of operations on NAUT's People tab, open the company page to read the team, then confirm the title on the person's X bio or the team's site. NAUT held 53 such contacts at 52 project teams on 13 November 2026.

Where can I find crypto heads of operations and their contact channels?

NAUT lists 53 crypto heads of operations at 52 project teams, read 13 November 2026, with 44 on LinkedIn, 31 on Telegram and 24 on X, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=head%20of%20operations runs the same search through the API. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reach them.

Is the head of operations title on NAUT always current?

Titles change when people move: of 12 head of operations records NAUT checked outside its own data on 13 November 2026, 6 were confirmed by 2 sources and 3 showed the person had moved on, so those 3 were left out. Check the person's bio before you write.

Who is the head of operations at Render?

Tristan Relly is Head of Operations at Render on NAUT, and his X bio and a Render post on Medium give the same title, checked 13 November 2026.

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