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Radwa Mahmoud is Director of Blockchain Infrastructure Services at Galaxy, a position she has held since February 2025. Prior to this, she served as VP and Head of Program Management at Galaxy from March 2023 to March 2025, where she was responsible for program delivery across the organization.

Mahmoud is a PMP-certified program manager with over a decade of experience planning, managing, and executing cross-functional, multi-disciplinary programs following the SDLC lifecycle. She previously held several roles at JPMorgan Chase, including Vice President, Senior Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, and Project Manager, spanning from June 2013 to March 2025. She holds a degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Thomas Cowan is Head of Tokenization at Galaxy, based in New York. His team sits within the Investment Banking Division and is building out what Galaxy describes as the industry's first fully onchain capital markets business within a bank. He has held the role since August 2023. He also serves as a Board Member at AllUnity, a Frankfurt-based entity focused on issuing a MiCAR-compliant EUR-denominated stablecoin, a position he has held since May 2024. Since January 2025, he has been a Fellow at The Economic Club of New York.

Before joining Galaxy, Cowan worked at Paxos, Ripple, and on the Boston Federal Reserve's CBDC team. During his time at Harvard, he also served as a research assistant on stablecoin, CBDC, and digital currency topics. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and MBA and MPP degrees from Harvard University.