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Chris is formerly Head of Talent at Shima Capital, formerly the Head of Talent at Atomic VC where he helped scale teams from seed to Series C and implemented talent programs for early teams. He was also the first Sourcer at Uber, having personally hired 300 candidates and leading a team of 20. He has also recruited for Google and Pinterest.
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Brandon Stahl
Brandon Stahl is the Chief Financial Officer at Shima Capital. Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of delivering results through teams in the financial services industry. Skilled in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Financial Accounting, ASC 946 Accounting, and Auditing in Traditional and Real Estate Private Equity industries. Strong professional with a Master of Accounting from University of Hawaii - Shidler College of Business. CPA licensed in California and a CFA Charterholder.
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.
Matt Alston
Matt Alston is the Co-founder of Bonfire. He started his career as a Product Manager at Uber, focusing on rider loyalty and rewards programs.
Driss Benamour
Driss Benamour is the Co-Founder & CEO of Exponential DeFi. Previously, he worked as Head of FinTech Products at Uber. He holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Terrence Wang
Terrence Wang is the co-founder of IOST. He graduated from M.S. Princeton University, majoring in Distributed Systems. He has many years of research experience in the field of Cryptocurrency and Distributed Algorithms. He once developed a high-level functional language, Coinlang, which replaced Bitcoin Script at Princeton University.
Mehdi Lebbar
Mehdi Lebbar is the Co-founder and President of Exponential. Previously, he worked as an Operations Manager at Uber. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Brendan Forster
Brendan Forster is former Head Of Strategy at Opensea and formerly Co-founder and COO of Dharma Protocol. Operations Manager with wide-ranging experience in operations, finance, strategy, sales, partnerships, and community management. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, with focus areas in Spanish and Judgment and Decision Making.
Keon Kim
Keon Kim is a co-founder at 0xPass, a company working to bring frictionless UX to dApps. Previously, he was a software engineer at Uber, where he served as the backend lead for a driver incentive program called "Service Fee Incentives." Keon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University.
Anthony Rose
Anthony Rose is the Head of Engineering at Matter Labs, a company focused on building decentralized technologies and infrastructure. He has extensive experience in software engineering and data science, having worked at SpaceX, Uber, and Expedia Group. He also has a postdoctoral research background at Texas A&M University, where he conducted data analysis for the CMS experiment in particle physics. He is now looking for experienced engineers with expertise in Rust, Solidity, LLVM, the EVM, and zero-knowledge cryptography to join the Matter Labs team.
Jess L.
Jess L. is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hooked Protocol. Presively, She worked as Marketing Strategist at Google and Uber.Jess L. graduated from Duke University.