Oversight and Transparency Committee (OAT) - June 2026 Elections Overview

I am voting 100% for @pedrob.

While this might seems odd for several reasons (ability of self voting, voting only for one candidate), I will briefly walk you through my experience with the OAT in the last 9 months.

Pedro has always been present and available to jump in a call whenever it was needed, either to discuss what we needed for the grants program or for other programs and ideas. He obviously was there representing the whole council; but his ability to always be there to listen to questions and requests, and be a bridge for the rest of the members, has been IMHO very important. Is just too easy to get in councils and then get into an ivory tower; he instead always provided feedback and dedicated a lot of time to hear from people of the DAO.
I have worked with him in other capacities, namely during LTIPP, so I always knew he would have been the right fit for the job, due to his approach, his experience as a lawyer, his past work with seed and the dao, and also due to him being a good human being. My experience confirmed it all.

Note that the above is not a critique to the other members to whom i got in contact (Frisson, AJ, Patrick). On the contrary, I also want both AJ and Patrick being elected. While a lot of folks think that AAEs should give more independence to OpCo, and some think there was margin of improvement in the previous tenure, my personal take is that we do need a direct connection with Foundation and OCL. It’s still too complex to coordinate everyone, there are huge communication’s gaps to be filled, and for this reason there is margin to achieve a lot of efficiency. But I also do think that they will get elected, and so I am directing all my votes to the person I think should continue his mandate in the next year.

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