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Christopher Mariadason is Chief Compliance Officer at Gemini
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Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012. In addition to being President of Gemini, he and his brother Tyler are currently seeking SEC approval for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, a Bitcoin ETF, and have launched the WinkDex, a Bitcoin price index that will price the ETF.
Shane Molidor
Shane Molidor was CEO of Business Development at AscendEX, former Global Head of FBG One, which is the client-facing trading division of FBG Capital. FBG One operates an over-the-counter (“OTC”) desk to service clients seeking to trade large quantities of crypto assets, as well as a designated market making program to support token projects following issuance. FBG One trades upwards of $1B per month, and the team consists of over 20 professionals across trading, IT, and business development. Prior to joining FBG One, Mr. Molidor worked in business development at Gemini Trust Company, LLC: a fully regulated New York-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Mr. Molidor has worked alongside premiere trading institutions, token projects, and regulators in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since 2015. His experience has equipped him with an intimate understanding of exchange infrastructure, custody solutions, evolving regulation, and marketplace dynamics. Mr. Molidor holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and also attended The London School of Economics where he studied Economics.
Shaun Blackburn
Shaun Blackburn is Deputy CISO at Gemini
Sachin Ranglani
Sachin Ranlani is vice president and head of India at Gemini and previously worked at Amazon and Uber.
Jeremy Ng
Jeremy Ng is the Co-Founder of OpenEden. Previously, he was the Managing Director and Head of APAC at Gemini. Prior to 2015, Jeremy Ng was employed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Pravjit Tiwana
Pravjit Tiwana is the former Asia Pacific CEO and Global CTO at Gemini, leading Gemini’s engineering, product, design, customer experience, ML/AI trading, sales and business development functions. Previously, he worked at AWS, Microsoft, and Disney. He graduated from Punjab University.
Lalitha Baskar
Lalitha Baskar is Vice President of Engineering at Gemini. Previously, she was Vice President of Software Engineering at Morgan Stanley, Vice President of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, and Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg.
Marshall Beard
Marshall Beard is the Chief Strategy Officer at Gemini, where he leads and manages the marketing, business development, and strategy & corporate development teams. Prior to joining Gemini, Beard worked for the digital media brand Barstool Sports as their Chief of Staff, focusing on corporate strategy and operations. He previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant in their Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group. Beard began his career at Prudential Financial, with a focus on corporate finance. He holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Southern Maine.
Julian Sawyer
Julian Sawyer is the CEO of Zodia Custody, the former CEO at Bitstamp and a co-founder of Starling Bank. He was formerly the Managing Director of the UK and Europe at Gemini and Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Starling, where he led it through periods of hyper growth, including scaling its app which has recently reached one million customers. Starling Bank is one of the largest mobile banks disrupting the retail banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK). Julian also oversaw Starling's business operations, including payment systems, card operations, and customer support. Prior to this, he started Bluerock Consulting, a financial management consultancy which he sold in 2012. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in high-growth financial services organizations, including as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in large-scale transformation in the cards and payments industry. Europe is the birthplace of modern financial markets and the UK has been a global financial capital of innovation for hundreds of years. The concept of thoughtful regulation was first developed from the lessons learned in these markets over centuries.
Eugene Ng
Eugene Ng is the Co-Founder at OpenEden. He also is the Adviser, Founding Partner at DWF LABS. Presively he worked as Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific at Gemini and Matrixport. Eugene Ng graduated from New York University-Stern School of Business.