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Ashwin Ramachandran was General Partner at Dragonfly Capital, former Product & Research Engineer at ThunderCore.
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Ani Pai
Ani Pai is the Partner at dragonfly. He holds a degree in economics from University of Warwick.
Fabio Berger
Fabio Berger is the Co-founder and CEO of BlowfishXYZ. He has a Duke Computer Science degree, is a Full Stack Engineer, and co-founded WealthLift.com and ShelfRelief.
Lucien Lee
Lucien Lee leads Pelith, a web3 tech solutions startup, and has a DeFi ecosystem, Hakka Finance, providing the most efficient DeFi product to achieve inclusive finance. Before that, Lucien Lee was a tech lead at the R&D venture studio of Scalable Inc, a US-based tech startup company with over $100 Million in revenue per year. Lucien Lee led a small team to build new e-commerce products from scratch and monetize them quickly. Previously, Lucien Lee was dApps Full Stack Developer at ThunderCore and had contributed to Remix IDE, one of the famous open-source projects in the Ethereum community.
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.
Olly Wilson
Olly Wilson is the Co-Founder & CEO at SimpleHash. He presively worked at McKinsey & Company. Olly Wilson graduated from Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Nicholas Zaldastani
Nicholas Zaldastani is the chairman, co-founder and head of marketing of CESS. He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Jon Charbonneau
Jon Charbonneau is the co-founder and general partner of DBA. He also co-hosts the Uncommon Core 2.0 podcast. Previously he was Head of L1, L2 and MEV Research at Delphi Digital. Prior to entering the cryptocurrency industry, he worked as a structured credit banker at Deutsche Bank in New York.Jon holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University.
Matthew Walsh
Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector. Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Melissa Zhang
Melissa Zhang is the Co-founder of Bonfire. She is also a Software Engineer at Coinbase and the Founder of Duke Blockchain Lab.
Jess Lo
Jess Lo is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hooked Protocol. Presively, She worked as Marketing Strategist at Google and Uber.Jess L. graduated from Duke University.
