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Alex Wearn is Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora DAO, the creator of the IDEX decentralized exchange.
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Emiliano Bonassi
Angel investor, Web3 researcher, and investor with a strong interest in security; former manager at AWS Cloud and Yearn Finance.
Shane Molidor
Shane Molidor was CEO of Business Development at AscendEX, former Global Head of FBG One, which is the client-facing trading division of FBG Capital. FBG One operates an over-the-counter (“OTC”) desk to service clients seeking to trade large quantities of crypto assets, as well as a designated market making program to support token projects following issuance. FBG One trades upwards of $1B per month, and the team consists of over 20 professionals across trading, IT, and business development. Prior to joining FBG One, Mr. Molidor worked in business development at Gemini Trust Company, LLC: a fully regulated New York-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Mr. Molidor has worked alongside premiere trading institutions, token projects, and regulators in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since 2015. His experience has equipped him with an intimate understanding of exchange infrastructure, custody solutions, evolving regulation, and marketplace dynamics. Mr. Molidor holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and also attended The London School of Economics where he studied Economics.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Zhixiong Pan
Zhixiong Pan is the founder of ChainFeeds and the former research director of Chain News. He has a technical background and was formerly an Internet product manager. He has been interested in topics such as Ethereum, Layer 2, privacy technology, and DeFi for a long time.
Ricky Tsang
Ricky Tsang is the Chief Information Officer at Meex and formerly served as CIO at BC Group. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
Greg Jizmagian
Greg Jizmagian is the Co-Founder and CTO at Exponential DeFi. Previously, he worked as a Business and Technology Leader at Amazon. Greg Jizmagian graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Aaron
Aaron is the Co-founder and CTO of CoinMarketCap. Previously, he worked at Trip.com and Amazon. Aaron graduated from Hunan University and Arizona State University.
Pranay Mohan
Pranay Mohan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomad. Ex-Product Manager at Celo, and Ex-Developer Relations at 0(1) Labs.
Maggie Hsu
Maggie Hsu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading go-to-market for the crypto portfolio. She previously led go-to-market for Amazon Managed Blockchain at Amazon Web Services, and before that led business development for AirSwap, a decentralized exchange. Maggie has held executive positions at Zappos.com and Hilton Worldwide. She was also a consultant at McKinsey and Company. Maggie is a cofounder of Gold House, a nonprofit collective of pioneering Asian leaders. She holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University.
Peter Marton
Peter Marton is the Director of Digital Identity at Fireblocks and was previously the Deputy Director of Virtual Currencies at the New York State Department of Financial Services. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.