Solana Foundation Appoints Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payments
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The Solana Foundation named Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer and Jamal Raees to a payments role. The two announcements were published by two different newsrooms and describe the same pair of hires, with one framing Raees as general manager of payments and the other as leading the payments business.
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Users and business partners watching Solana will notice the staffing change immediately, because the foundation has put Rachel Conlan in charge of strategy and Jamal Raees in a payments role. That means the people dealing with Solana’s business direction and payment efforts now have named leads in place.
In practice, the foundation’s strategy and payments responsibilities are now assigned to specific executives instead of being described only in general terms. The basic scope still stays the same: one role is about strategy, and the other is about payments and business use of Solana.
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
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| 44 days ago | ZetaChain votes to shut down Layer 1 network and move ZETA to Solana event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |