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Carson Cook is the Founder and CEO of Membrane leveraging years of experience building trading and market making technology in the digital asset ecosystem. Carson Cook also is the Founder of Tokemak and Fractal Wealth. Presively, he worked as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.He is a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Will Galvin
Will leads Membrane’s global operations bringing years of executive experience spanning multiple industries. He previously spent over a decade at Gorta, a global economic development group, in various senior operational roles. He also co-founded a digital payments platform for the international humanitarian sector. Will began his career as a trial attorney specializing in asylum, refugee, and criminal law.
Jack Lipstone
Jack Lipstone is Investment Partner at Chapter One and Co-Founder at Rari Capital. Previously, Co-Founder and CMO at Ambo, which was acquired by MyCrypto. Served as the Director of Business Development at MyCrypto until April 2020.
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.
Augustus (Augie) Ilag
Augie is an Investment Partner and Head of Asia at CMT Digital, a crypto and blockchain investment firm based in the US. He was previously with Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia where he spearheaded their crypto investments in the region. Before Sequoia, Augie spent time at McKinsey & Company focused on emerging markets, working on projects in Southeast Asia, LATAM, and the US. He holds a BA and MS from Stanford University and was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2022.
Scott Rupp
Scott is a Founding General Partner of BITKRAFT Ventures based in Denver. An interactive entertainment entrepreneur, investor, and operating executive for over 20 years, Scott served as USA Managing Director for Modern Times Group, a global leader in games and esports, where he led their venture capital fund and U.S. expansion.Scott held co-founder and CEO roles at influencer marketing and digital content companies Digital Artists and Icebox and was an early leader in the U.S. online games industry as SVP of Corporate Development for Gazillion.He advised the world’s leading entertainment companies on the games industry while at McKinsey, and previously served at Deutsche Bank and Carlyle Group. He has an MBA from Kellogg and an MPA from Harvard.
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.
Josh Hawkins
Josh Hawkins is Senior Vice President, Strategic Positioning & Global Thought Leadership at Circle, a consumer finance startup that uses Bitcoin technology to make money transfers and payments instant, secure, global and free. Circle was founded in 2013 by Internet entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire with $26 million in venture backing from Jim Breyer, Accel, General Catalyst, and Oak Investment Partners. Previously, Josh was Vice President of Marketing at SutherlandGold, a leading tech-focused PR and marketing firm based in San Francisco with clients including Birchbox, Comcast Ventures, CloudFlare, and TOMS. Prior to joining SutherlandGold, Josh was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Brightcove, a leading cloud-based video platform company with software used by thousands media companies and marketers in more than 60 countries. At Brightcove, Josh led global public relations, marketing communications, creative services, and website operations. Josh joined Brightcove in 2005 when it was a pre-revenue, 20-person startup. Over the next eight years, the company grew to 350 employees, with sales and marketing operations in nine countries and revenue of $100 million. In February 2012, Brightcove completed a successful IPO. Josh speaks at industry events and has articles published in Advertising Age and Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly.
Patrick Hillmann
Patrick Hillmann is the former chief strategy officer of Binance, where he leads Binance’s global communications and public affairs department, and his remit also includes coordinating with global regulators in conjunction with Binance’s head of compliance and security. Prior to joining Binance, Patrick was the Global Head of Innovation in Edelman's Crisis and Risk practice, where he led the firm's cybersecurity and anti-disinformation offerings. Prior to joining Edelman, Patrick held senior government affairs and public affairs positions at General Electric (GE) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
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.
Seckin Caglin
Seçkin Çağlın is a Co-Founder at Cenoa, and a former Chief Marketing & Digital Officer at Garanti BBVA Payment Systems, Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, and Stanford MBA graduate. He has more than 10 years of experience in product and business unit management, growth, digital product management, data & advanced analytics, brand management, marketing communications, and performance marketing.