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Daniel Alegre is the CEO of Yuga Labs, and he previously served as the COO of Activision Blizzard. Previously, Daniel spent more than sixteen years at Google in various leadership roles. Daniel holds dual MBA and JD degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, and a BA degree with Honors from Princeton University from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Daniel is fluent in English, Spanish, French and German, and proficient in Russian.
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Lawrence Diao
Lawrence Diao is General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Formerly Co-Founder of Basis Protocol, quant/engineer at Google, Radix Trading, and DE Shaw.
Steven Goldfeder
Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs. He earned a Ph.D. at Princeton University and then joined Google.
Nader Al-Naji
Nader Al-Naji is the Founder and CEO of BASIS. He has raised over $133M from top investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Stan Druckenmiller, Kevin Warsh, Foundation, and Wing. He has built a team of 14 people with backgrounds from Goldman Sachs, Google, Bridgewater, Bain Capital, McKinsey, Harvard Law, D. E. Shaw, Tower Research, Hudson River Trading, and top-tier universities. He has led the development of a fully-functional system built on the Ethereum blockchain, which has been validated via two separate third-party audits. Nader has also developed relationships with journalists and acted as a spokesperson for the company, appearing on Fortune, CNBC, BusinessInsider, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, and many others. He has spoken at conferences, including a talk at the IMF. He has worked with multiple law firms including Sullivan and Cromwell, Wilmerhale, WSGR, MWE, Paul Hastings, and Sidley to push regulatory compliance initiatives and design the system to fit within existing regulatory frameworks. After a deep analysis of the regulatory landscape, taking into consideration a tightening of securities regulation in particular, they decided to shut down and return capital to investors. A full story is available on basis.io. Nader coordinated an acquihire of the company, setting up a competitive process to give all of their staff a soft landing.
Ben Scharfstein
Ben Scharfstein is the co-founder and CEO of Stelo Labs and Rume. Prior to this, he was a product manager at Google and an associate product manager. He also interned at Google in 2015, working on video ads for YouTube. Ben holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Harvard University.
Zoe Weinberg
Zoe Weinberg is the Founder & managing partner of ex/ante. Previously, Zoe served on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and at Google AI. Prior she focused on national security, working in Mosul Iraq during the counter-ISIL operation in 2017. She was an investor at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and at Goldman Sachs. Her work on national security has been published in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs and she co-hosts the podcast Next in Foreign Policy. Zoe received her JD from Yale Law School, MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and BA from Harvard College.
Chandan Lodha
Chandan Lodha is the Co-Founder of CoinTracker. He was previously a Product Manager at Google.
Patrick McGregor
Patrick McGregor is the Chief Product Officer at Crusoe. Presively he worked at Coinbase, Google and Trustwave. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University & Princeton University.
David Rolefson
David Rolefson is the COO at Yuga Labs. He worked at Google for 19 years. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles.
Raghu Yarlagadda
Raghu Yarlagadda is Co-Founder of FalconX. Ex-Google, Harvard Business School grad. Blockchain/DLT Enthusiast | Machine Learning Expert | Growth Hacker. I've been very fortunate to lead and build products that generated over a billion dollars of revenue, impacted over 50 million users, and generated over 500 jobs.
Michael Ma
Michael Ma is the Founder of CreatorDAO. Additionally, he is a Mentor at Binance Labs and previously worked as a Product Manager at Google. Michael Ma graduated from Yale University and Harvard Business School, and participated in Y Combinator W11 activities.