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Catherine Coley is former CEO at Binance.US and Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple. Prior to Ripple, Catherine advised start-ups on their global payments and international expansion strategies at Silicon Valley Bank. She brings institutional currency markets experience from her previous roles in foreign exchange with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and London, working closely with global hedge funds and asset managers. Catherine was a GLOBE Scholar at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Copenhagen Business School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill’s Kenan Flagler Business School.
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Tricia Lin Collins
Tricia Lin is the Vice President of Research at Blockworks. She was previously the head of listing and research at Binance.US. She was also responsible for investor relations at Shuttle Ventures and private wealth management at Morgan Stanley, with a special focus on UHNW blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc. investment needs. She co-founded GopherCard, a blockchain-based gift mobile application and payment company dedicated to mainstreaming digital assets and mobile/e-commerce.
Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
SJ Oh
Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
Ronson Chau
Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.
Chiam Tat Ang
Chiam Tat Ang is the Head of Treasury at Matrixport. Presively he worked at Standard Chartered Bank, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Chiam graduated from Graduated from Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Luke Li
Luke Li is the Head of Markets at Amber Group. Previously, Luke was a Credit Strat, FID Department at Morgan Stanley. Luke holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the Columbia University.
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Yida Gao
Yida Gao is a General Partner at Shima Capital. Also serves as a member of the Open Campus (EDU) committee,Previously, he was a General Partner at Divergence Digital Currency and Struck Capital. He was also a technology investor at NEA, one of the world's largest VC funds with over $20 billion in AUM. Before that, Yida was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York City, where he helped execute deals worth a total of $15 billion. Yida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and was a varsity pole vaulter. He attended Stanford GSB for a brief period before dropping out to join Struck Capital.