Solana Foundation Appoints Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payments

What happened

The Solana Foundation appointed Rachel Conlan to lead strategy and Jamal Raees to expand global payments adoption. The appointments strengthen institutional growth and payments leadership as more financial activity moves onto Solana .

Solana Foundation's Chief Strategy Officer, Rachel Conlan, and GM of Payments, Jamal Raees Financial activity moves into production These appointments reflect the maturation of the Solana ecosystem and come at a point of step-change in onchain activity. In 2026 alone, Solana has processed more than $5 trillion in stablecoin volume.

Real-world assets on the network have surpassed $4.5 billion, while tokenized equity supply has crossed $620 million. Payments, treasuries, funds and equities are moving beyond experimentation and into production on Solana — operating globally, 24 hours a day.

That shift has a name: the Token Supercycle - the long-term migration of money, assets and ownership onto always-on internet infrastructure. Rachel Conlan to lead strategy Conlan’s remit is to convert that thesis into adoption.