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Derek Kong is the Chief Operating Officer of Port3 and graduated from Northeastern University. He has worked at PropNex Realty Pte Ltd and founded King Kong Property.
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Max D.
Max D. is the co-founder of Port3 and a graduate of Northeastern University. He previously worked as a Business Development Manager at Apple, led the Product Department at ZB.com, and headed the Business Development Team at Astarter.
Paul Kim
Paul Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Notifi. He is a start-up and enterprise internet product enthusiast who enjoys a good cup of coffee.
Ben Jones
Ben Jones is a co-founder of Optimism and a former blockchain associate at Underscore VC. He holds a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern University.
Ryan Silva
Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
Jonathan Geenty
Jonathan Geenty is a venture partner with Accomplice VC, where he focus on pre-seed and seed investments in the blockchain industry. Formerly, Data Scientist at Coin Metrics, Data Science and Financial Product at Hometap, OTC Trading - Quantitative Trader and Data Engineer and Market Analyst at Circle.
Marco Mereu
Marco Mereu is the Founder & CEO at M80. He previously founded several game companies such as XSET, Roostr, Gameblyr. Marco Mereu graduated from Northeastern University.
Katie DiMento
Katie DiMento is the VP of Marketing at Blockdaemon. She graduated from Babson College and Northeastern.
Anthony Deng
Anthony Deng is the co-founder of Port3 and graduated from South China Normal University. He previously worked in backend development at Tencent and Viabtc Technology Limited, and founded ZaiYu Technology LTD.
Abbey Titcomb
Abbey Titcomb is Head of Community & Governance at Radicle. Former Associate at UnderscoreVC. Researching crypto-economic models and system designs for commons-based peer production.
Zev Shimko
Zev Shimko, co-founder, chief operating officer at Avanti Financial Group. Mr. Shimko will be joining Avanti full-time in April. He is currently a director at Figure, focusing on its enterprise blockchain efforts, and before that he headed corporate development at SALT, a crypto-backed lender. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in global capital markets, where he was promoted as part of its STAR program and where he and Ms. Long worked together. Mr. Shimko holds a B.S. from Northeastern University.