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Adeniyi Abiodun is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Sui/Mysten Labs. Prior to founding Mysten Labs, Adeniyi led many of Meta’s R&D initiatives in blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the Diem (also known as Libra) Network and the Move programming language.
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Evan Cheng
Evan Cheng is the co-founder and CEO of Sui/Mysten Labs. He was formerly the R&D director at Novi Financial.
Sam Blackshear
Sam Blackshear is the co-founder and CTO of Sui/Mysten Labs, and he was previously the lead engineer at Novi Financial.
George Danezis
George Danezis is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Sui/Mysten Labs.
Rituraj Yadav
Rituraj Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Sonic Wallet. He has an undergrad in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, New York. He started his career building large-scale distributed cloud systems at Microsoft Azure and got intrigued into working on blockchain. After Microsoft, He worked as Senior Engineer at Zenefits where he built Zenefits Payroll and Zenefits International Contractor Payments - the systems process billions of dollars in transactions. Later, he joined WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Facebook) where he worked on building WhatsApp Payments that provided financial services to hundreds of million people across the globe.
David Wong
David Wong is a co-founder of Zksecurity, previously a senior cryptography engineer at O (1) Labs and a security engineer for the Facebook blockchain project.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Tom Schmidt
Tom Schmidt is a Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Previously, he was a Product at 0x Project, a Product Manager for Ads at Facebook and Instagram, and an Engineer at Apple and Stanford CS.
Qi Zhou
Founder of EthStorage and QuarkChain. Web3 enthusiast, social experimenter, developer, and father. He completed his Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology after receiving his master's degrees at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduation, Qi Zhou worked at Google, Dell and Facebook.
Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the co-founder and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet.
Mohammad Shaikh
Mohammad Shaikh is co-founder and CEO of Aptos and former director of Strategy at ConsenSys. Shaikh has also worked at Meta, The Boston Consulting Group, and BlackRock. Mohammad holds an MBA from the University of Rochester - Simon Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Economics, and Accounting from Hunter College.
