Hugo Philion is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flare Network. Hugo’s previous career was as a derivatives trader managing portfolios at several large funds. Subsequently Hugo studied Machine Learning at University College London where he met Flare’s two other co-founders.

Together they have launched Flare, an EVM-based Layer 1 that expands the utility of blockchain. With decentralized oracles built into the structure of the network, Flare helps builders harness price & time series data, blockchain event & state data, and web2 API data, all at scale and negligible cost.