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Alex Chehade is the MENA General Manager at Binance. Ex-Chief Operating Officer at MidChains. He graduated from King's College London, U. of London and UCLA.
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Yele Bademosi
Yele Bademosi is the CEO and Co-Founder at Nestcoin. Yele is passionate about blockchain adoption at a global level, sharing: “On a high level, my mandate is to leverage blockchain to accelerate Africa’s transition to a sustainable and developed economy. I believe very strongly that blockchain adoption will come from frontier markets that will leapfrog the existing financial systems as well as governance and economic models.”
Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Shadow. Presively he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Paradigm. Ex-Product at Goldfinch. Before that Alvin Hsia worked at Airbnb. He graduated from UCLA.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.
Jackie Bona
Jackie Bona is the CEO of Valora, a mobile-first crypto wallet whose mission is to unlock access to financial opportunity for people around the world. She has spent the last 15 years of her career in product marketing and GTM leadership roles at various global technology companies such as Spotify, Twitter, and Google. Jackie is passionate about financial inclusion and believes that blockchain technology has the potential to provide new economic opportunities to those who would not typically have access.
Joao Beraldo
Joao Beraldo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jungle. He graduated from King's College London.
Symington W. Smith
Symington W. Smith is the co-founder of HurricaneSwap, and also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Beijing Thai General Chamber of Commerce and the Marketing Director of Inertia Ventures. He graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor's degree and obtained a Master's degree from King's College London.
Jimmy Bingham
James (Jimmy) Bingham is executive vice president of business development at Fortress and was previously senior vice president of business development at Prime Trust. He graduated from UCLA and the University of Connecticut.
Holly Liu
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at PKO Investments. Formerly, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Kabam. She founded the venture backed mobile gaming company, Kabam in 2006 with UC Berkeley alumni. Her work has contributed to record revenue growth for Kabam year over year from $0 to $400MM annually, that led Kabam into the unicorn club in 2014. She led the design for Kabam’s award-winning "Kingdoms of Camelot" franchise, which has grossed over $250 million in less than four years. She was also the founding mobile designer for extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012. She was Chief Development Officer in charge of developing Kabam internationally through key relationships - starting with China. Among other things, she continues to develop global cultural initiatives within Kabam.