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Alex Fowler is a well-connected professional in the crypto, fintech, security, and privacy sectors, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Transparent Financial Systems. With an impressive portfolio of past roles and experience, including as Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at Blockstream, Chief Privacy Officer at Mozilla, and Practice Leader of Privacy & Security at PwC, Alex is a respected figure in the industry. His impressive educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Brown University, a Master of Arts from The George Washington University, and a degree from the Yale University School of Music. Alex is a passionate advocate for data privacy, transparency, and an open internet, and has been responsible for leading initiatives to protect the rights of internet users.
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Dan Tapiero
Dan Tapiero is the CEO and Managing Partner of 10T, a global investment management firm. Prior to founding 10T, Dan was the managing partner of DTAP Capital Advisors, a global macro investment fund that he founded in 2003. He is also the co-founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a physical precious metals platform for the wealth management industry that expanded into the cryptocurrency universe in 2014. Additionally, he co-founded the Agricultural Company of America (AGCoA), which was one of the largest farmland REITs in the U.S. at the time of its sale in 2013. Dan has a wealth of experience as a macro-focused portfolio manager and analyst, having worked at Tiger Management, Duquesne Capital Management, Steinhardt Management Co., and SAC Capital Advisors from 1992-2012. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where he earned his B.A.'90 and M.A.'91 in European History. Dan has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Lawrenceville School for the past 12 years and currently leads the Investment Committee for its endowment.
Chris Hofmann
Chris spent the past 7 years at Brown University’s Investment Office investing across public and private asset classes. He first became interested in crypto in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem. When not working, Chris can be found playing squash or slowly acquiring NFTs.
Pieter Wuille
Peter Wuille is a Bitcoin Core developer and the co-founder of Blockstream. He is ranked second in terms of commits to Bitcoin Core and is responsible for important improvements to Bitcoin such as BIP 66, libsecp256k1, and Segregated Witness. His programming languages include C++, C, Perl, Java, Bash, (PG)SQL, Haskell, OCaml, and PHP. He is also skilled in system administration, including Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and LDAP. His specialties include programming languages, compilers, and cryptography.
Ann Jaskiw
Ann Jaskiw is the Founder and CEO of Tactic. Previously, she worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Ann Jaskiw graduated from Brown University.
Eren Derman
Eren Derman is the founder and CEO of DKODA Labs, developers of the Wasabi Protocol. He graduated from the Brown University School of Engineering.
Christian Decker
Christian Decker is the Lead Engineer at Blockstream. Christian is a Bitcoin enthusiast from the very beginning, back in 2009. He got involved in the, then small, community and starting to contribute. In 2012 he was offered a PhD Candidate position in the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich. The goal of his research is to improve the understanding of the underlying consensus mechanisms and to enable the network to scale with the increasing demands. The result was the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and the creation of a number of protocols including PeerCensus and Duplex Micropayment Channels.
Phil Davis
Phil Davis is the CFO at ConsenSys, oversee ConsenSys’ finance and accounting functions, including expanding the company’s pioneering treasury strategy. Davis joins ConsenSys from Afiniti, where he was the company’s CFO. He brings a variety of other experiences from earlier in his career, including investment banking at Goldman Sachs, strategy and corporate finance consulting at McKinsey, and advanced data science and algorithm design experience at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Lincoln Lab.
Julie Muroff
Julie Muroff is senior vice president of events at Blockworks and previously served as the company's chief operating officer. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Business.
Jorge Timon
Jorge Tim¨®n is a renowned software designer and programmer with a background in artificial intelligence, alternative payment systems, and financial theory. He is the co-designer of Freicoin and the founder of the Freicoin project, as well as a co-founder and engineer of Blockstream. He is also a member of the advisory boards of the Lifeboat Foundation and co-author of the paper "Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains". Jorge holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Universidad de Extremadura
Markus Maier
Markus Maier is the Founder of Mauve, the first fully AML-compliant, Real World Asset focused DEX, and Violet, providing on-chain Compliance as a Service.