XRP Ledger Foundation Names Leadership to Expand Collaboration

On May 8, the XRP Ledger Foundation announced a leadership team and a plan to coordinate more openly with developers, validators and infrastructure operators to support engineering, operations and community engagement for the XRP Ledger.

Brett Mollin will serve as executive director, responsible for strategic direction and for coordinating engineering, community, operations and partnerships. Denis Angell, a long-time contributor to the XRPL codebase, is moving from XRPL Labs to become chief technology officer and will lead technical direction, amendment development, standards and production contributions. Rene Huijsen joins as director of operations and will handle financial coordination and the group’s operating structure. Hussein Zangana, known in the community as Vet, will lead community work, including communications, validator and developer engagement, events and content.

The foundation outlined specific responsibilities for the team. Engineering duties cover amendment proposals, standards development and production-level contributions to the XRPL codebase. Operations work includes financial oversight and support for internal processes. Community efforts will focus on communications, social presence, educational content, livestreams and event programming with direct engagement of validators and developers.

In a post on X, the foundation wrote the new team are ‘the people you’ll be hearing from, building with, and running into at events throughout the year.’ The post added the organization will collaborate ‘openly, transparently and with the public’ with ecosystem stakeholders to advance community and technology work.

The XRP Ledger Foundation is a nonprofit that supports development, adoption and advocacy for the XRP Ledger and its community. The organization presented the appointments as the start of a more public coordination role across development efforts, operations and event programming.