Hello,
Allow me to provide some answers:
We do not disclose who has control over The Sandbox or the DAO wallets, to protect the individual safety of the operators.
I interact we the Special Council (SP) on a weekly basis. These are informal 1 to 1 meetings where, upon appetite or personal preferences, we could discuss topic like decentralised governance in general, how to attract more voters to the DAO, brainstorms new SIPs, various web3 and ecosystem news etc etc. We are very fortunate to have brilliant SP with a lot of knowledge in the space. These conversations are on top of the SP primary constitutional mandate articulated around SIP review. They are organised asynchronously with them. My role during those exchanges is DAO Administrator.
I don’t interact has much as I would like with the Advisory Board, as I have been very busy since the launch and I need to do a better job with that.
The DAO “core team” aka “admin team” aka “operation team” is today 5 people, of which roles are detailed in this post: operation update . The “extended team” has: lawyers, compliance officers, design and web agency, accountant, tech support and other back-end specialist. There are also roles specific to the foundation: Director, Supervisor, and Secretary. Via a Service Agreement (SA) with the Sandbox, we can also tap into The Sandbox resources and have access to more departments like art, marketing, content etc etc. The Sandbox will be billing the DAO for its services (the SA is being finalised). In the future we could bring more specialists, should the need arise.
All of these actors fees are financed by the “operation wallet”, of which budget has been approved as per SIP3. This wallet is also used to pay for our various subscriptions and general expenses that we need to “keep the lights on” (wallet custodian, payment software, banking services, ENS, domains, cloud, ledger, sub ledger, accounting software etc, the list is too long 
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As member of the Animoca family, The Sandbox and by extension it’s DAO has frequent interaction with various actors of ApeCoin DAO.
cheers