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Ben Sparango

Head of BD at Solana

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Ben Sparango is the Head of Business Development at Solana Labs. Previously, he was a Volunteer Analyst at Messari. Messari's mission is to promote transparency and informed decision-making within the cryptocurrency community. Their open-source data library assists researchers, investors, and regulators in understanding the industry.

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Wilson Withiam

Wilson Withiam is a partner at Syncracy Capital, a former research analyst at Messari, and a former research analyst intern at Circle Research, researching and writing in-depth reports on various crypto projects, topic insights, analyzing and curating the latest topics in the weekly crypto newsletter, and forming partnerships within the industry to help their research projects grow.

Brian Smith

Brian leads finance and operations for the firm. He specializes in deal structuring, due diligence, and legal and financial processes. Brian previously served as a public equity analyst at Tiger Management (where he helped launch a Tiger-seeded hedge fund), a private equity investor with Fox Paine & Co., an investment banker at Greenhill & Co., and he co-led finance at Bazaarvoice (BV) through the company's IPO.

Dan McArdle

Dan McArdle is Co-founder of Messari. He has co-founded multiple companies, such as the Digital Currency Council and Volara Voice. With his background in computer science and economics, he has been investing in Bitcoin and the cryptoasset space since 2011. Dan holds a degree in computer science and economics from Brown University.

Ben O'Neill

Ben O'Neill works in BD and Operations at Bridge and was previously Vice President of Business Development and Operations at Messari. He previously worked at Satis Group and Uber.

Ryan Selkis

Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.

Mason Nystrom

Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Austin Federa

Austin Federa is director of strategy at the Solana Foundation and formerly worked at Bison Trails.

Ryan Gentry

Ryan Gentry is Director of business development at Lightning Labs and former principal analyst at Multicoin Capital.

Haichao Zhu

Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.

Mable Jiang

Mable Jiang is the Chief Revenue Officer at STEPN. She was previously a Partner at Multicoin Capital and a Corporate Strategy Manager at DiDi. Mable Jiang graduated from Columbia University.