Jesse Alton is a product strategist, advisor, and open source maintainer, committed to the Open Metaverse. Jesse founded AngellXR, a Metaverse incubation community, which is currently incubating projects such as the Open Metaverse Interoperability group (OMI). OMI is an open-source collective of industry professionals, independent creators, and passionate enthusiasts building interoperable technology together. Jesse serves as co-chair of OMI, provides guidance and mentorship to metaverse founders and investors, and works at Fearless as a Product Manager, and MICA as an adjunct professor.