2023's Most Influential Growth Leaders

Meet the 25 web3 growth leaders who shaped the year

GM and Happy New Year! With 2023 behind us, a few growth leaders stood out from the pack, achieving crazy growth and shaping the industry and beyond.

You may not know their names, but you’ve definitely seen their work.

Behind every great web3 company is a strong growth leader, and we’re excited to give them the spotlight they truly deserve!

Disclaimer: There are many incredible founders in the web3 ecosystem, but the names you don’t hear enough are growth operators themselves. This list is for them.

Without further ado, please meet 2023’s top 25 growth leaders!

1. Andrew Saunders, CMO at Hashflow. Growth exec, personal brand builder, and TikToker, he does it all. You can’t miss his inaugural crypto TikTok.

2. Elisa, Web3 Gaming Content Creator. She’s been on a tear, growing her follower base & IP. With all eyes on gaming for 2024, no doubt she hits 100K by EOY.

3. Michael Migliero, CMO at Big Time. OG gaming growth hacker behind one of the strongest web3 game launches of 2023.

4. Marc Baumann, Content Creator. His blog “Dematerialzd” is a must for anyone who wants to understand brands x web3; and he’s growing rapidly, taking advantage of the LinkedIn content arbitrage opportunity.

5. Thomas Pan, Content Creator. He’s produced the best articles on the web3 growth strategies of web2 & web3 brands alike. You name it, he wrote about it!

   

6. Dan Held, Content Creator & fractional CMO. Driving growth in the bitcoin ecosystem and beyond.

7. Intern, Growth at Monad. Master of memes. Blowing life into the hottest new narrative going into 2024: evm/acc.

8. Yogi, Head of Ecosystem at Berachain. Creating the DeFi reverse mullet: ridiculousness in the front (brand), sophistication in the back (novel tech).

9. Blue, Head of Growth at Trader Joe. Mixing brand strategy with strong growth fundamentals. Dual role as Delegate for Arbitrum, tasked with navigating how to grow an ecosystem as well as a top protocol within it.

10. Mariam Kouanda, Head of Growth at Angle Protocol. Making Angle the LST of Stablecoins. Ask her about the “best friend” growth strategy.

11. Kseniia Baziian, CMO at Premia Finance. “Premia Academy” is one of the best in DeFi education, growing the pie one person at a time.

12. Rohan Garg, Head of Growth at Biconomy (now at Aarc). Strongest web3 B2B growth leader out there, and skilled up many B2B growth wizards along the way.

13. Catty Berragan, Head of Marketing at Thirdweb. Bringing his creative background to web3 and crushing it on Youtube & SEO to help web3 devs.

14. Louis Dharma, Head of Hansa Network. Left Immutable to build web3’s first & best growth accelerator, taking teams from funded to explosive growth.

15. Matthew Howells-Barby, VP of Growth at Kraken. From building a growth strategy in public as CMO of DecentralGames, to growing the pie at Kraken.

16. Quinn Campbell, VP of Growth at Sky Mavis (now 🤫). The first to highlight the intricacies of gaming ecosystem personas & an expert on the web3 growth stack.

17. Emily Lai, VP of Marketing at Hype. Building a large growth team at Hype that is quietly growing and shaping some of the industry’s biggest brands.

18. Bhaji Illuminati, CMO at Centrifuge. Evangelizing the RWA category, bringing together industry leaders and competitors to help grow the space.

19. Tiffany Huang, Head of Marketing at Magic Eden (now GM, gm! ☀️). Navigating the intricacies of being the face of Magic Eden’s growth on Solana and beyond.

20. Angel Pui, Head of Global Growth at Yield Guild Games. Growing the largest web3 gaming community and a GenZ luxury collectibles brand on the side.

21. Sambino, Head of Marketing at Treasure DAO. Treasure’s first marketing hire and steward of an increasingly passionate ecosystem for the past 2 years.

22. Christina Beltramini, Head of Growth at Avara. Leading the charge to evangelize web3 social and the power of Avara.

23. Alexander Guy, CMO at Zerion. Growing one of the best trading wallets, with an awesome end of year browser extension launch.

24. 0xHsing, Head of Marketing at Perpetual Protocol. Building a growth team that relentlessly experiments to reduce friction for its protocol traders.

25. Alex Shefrin, Head of BD & Growth at Sushiswap. Transformed strategic growth, built out the BD function from scratch to take the brand to new heights.

Here’s to the first ever edition of the top web3 growth leaders of the year!