Heather Russell
DAO Master Irreverent Labs
Heather is a life-long entrepreneur from Brooklyn, New York. She started her first business at 19, selling and collecting rare Japanese animation art and at the time, became the largest dealer in the US.
At 24 she moved to Japan, learned the language and built her second company Rinkya.com - a turnkey logistics company for Japanese merchants wanting to do business globally.
Heather lived in Japan for 12 years during which time Rinkya grew into a profitable multimillion dollar business, servicing 160 countries shipping millions of packages around the world. Today, it remains a 21- year old profitable family business.
She now lives in Seattle and spends her time being involved in the world of DAOs, mainly an NFT investment club called Upside DAO.
She also invests in and BUILDS Web3 projects. Recently, she took a full-time role as the DAO Master and Head of Product at a16z portfolio company, Irreverent Labs, building their 100-yr DAO.
Heather is a certified Sake sommelier and an accredited appraiser of Japanese animation art.
