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Shelby Thomas
Shelby Thomas is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Lore. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Terence Kwok
Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol and was previously the founder of Tink Labs.
Zack Seward
Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Nick Pann
Nick Pann is a co-founder of Sindri and was previously Vice President of Product at TenantBase. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Alvin Kwock
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder & CEO of OneDegree.Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force, CUHK Business School’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Finance, and a founding member of Innovate for Future. Alvin started his career in J.P. Morgan and spent 11 years there, prior to founding OneDegree. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research.
Yilun Zhang
Yilun Zhang is the co-founder & CTO of NKNt. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at UC San Diego with a deep understanding and extensive research on cellular automata, using Ising models in physics, Hopfield networks in computer science, and recurrent neural networks in neuroscience as mathematical tools , studying computational neuroscience.
Anshum Bhambri
Anshum Bhambri is the co-founder of FanCraze. Previously, he worked for six years at bulge-bracket investment banks in New York and London, and was involved in trading derivatives and structured products, as well as providing corporate finance and M&A-related advice to technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, and eBay. Anshum is a graduate of Stanford University and The University of Chicago, and holds degrees in Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, and Business.
