Julian Al-Mushadani - Co-Founder, TechChain Talent

Julian Al-Mushadani, co-founder of TechChain Talent, on commercial hiring, leadership search and scaling crypto teams post-raise.

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Co-Founder, TechChain Talent

Bawar Hamad is the co-founder of TechChain Talent, the embedded talent partner for crypto companies. He co-founded Birch & James Associates, London’s first AI specialist recruitment agency, before leading hiring at Meta, Scroll, Arbitrum Foundation and Sentient Foundation.

He writes and speaks on crypto hiring strategy, salary benchmarks, talent market structure and how founders should build hiring functions after a raise.

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Julian Al-Mushadani

Julian Al-Mushadani is the co-founder of TechChain Talent. He co-founded Birch & James Associates and brings over 30 years of commercial leadership experience across blue-chip organisations and scaling startups, including multiple multi-million pound exits.

He advises crypto founders on commercial hiring, go-to-market team building and the leadership hires that decide whether a company compounds or stalls.

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