Samuel Delesque

Founder

A software engineer by background, he leads product and vision, translating lessons from living, working, and governing on the land into an operating system for regenerative villages.

Paul McCloud

Operations & Finance

Paul keeps the engine running, overseeing operations, financial planning, and the administrative backbone that lets a lean team support a growing network of communities.

Vladimir Vashnev

UI & Site Reliability

Vladimir shapes the interface communities interact with every day and makes sure the platform stays fast and dependable as Closer scales from a handful of deployments to hundreds of village instances.

Avi Charlop

Scaling

Avi focuses on growth, working on the systems and processes that take Closer from its first cohort of communities toward its long-term aim of powering a thousand villages worldwide.

Simon Kozak

Smart Contracts

Simon builds Closer's on-chain layer, from token contracts on Celo to the proof-of-presence primitives that anchor community membership, governance, and contribution tracking.

Hiring GTM lead!

contact sam@closer.earth