[Meta-Governance] Nominate sovereignsignal.eth

Preferred Name and/or ENS name: sovereignsignal.eth Forum username: Sov Twitter / X profile link: https://x.com/sovereignsignal

Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group? I bring deep experience in grants, operations, and governance that would benefit the consolidated Meta-Governance Working Group.

I've served as an ENS Public Goods steward and as a steward and grants council member at other major DAOs. Today, I run grant operations for one of the largest grant programs in the space. My background is in enterprise sales, and as a senior manager, I ran operations at scale, the same work this group takes on as it absorbs the other working groups' mandates.

My experience spans multiple sectors:

• ENS Public Goods steward
• Run grant operations for the Uniswap Foundation, one of the largest grant programs in the space today.
• Gitcoin's partnerships and grant operations have distributed $10M+ across multiple Gitcoin Grants rounds and have run partnerships for several years.
• Ran a profitable systems integrator for a decade before coming into crypto
• Managed local, state, and federal grants with a recognized 501c3 (a regional food bank. You can read more about this journey here)
• Built grants discovery tools, including LlamaoGrants (with DefiLlama) and Blockworks Grantfarm
• Track grants and publish regular updates through Crypto Grants Wire (4K+ subscribers) and my blog Sovereign Signal, both running since 2022

What I'd focus on next term:

• Define with the other stewards the group's mandate, scope, and what each steward owns, so delegates can hold us to measurable delivery
• Run it in the open: published priorities, timelines, and regular reporting that delegates can check through a dashboard or public repo
• Bring financial discipline to the DAO's budget and steward operations, with spending that is transparent and tied to outcomes
• Keep a practical path to fund builders and public goods through the consolidation, with continued coordination with ENS Labs and the Foundation

Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g., potential conflicts or existing engagements):

Current roles and engagements:

• Full-time role with Uniswap Foundation
• Council Member, COW Grants
• Currently serving as part of the SPP3 Committee
• Independent advisory work in the grants space, plus the grants research I publish through Crypto Grants Wire and Sovereign Signal

I commit to full transparency about these roles and will recuse where any conflict arises with my responsibilities to this Working Group.