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Shixing Mao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cobo. He is also one of China's earliest cryptocurrency pioneers, having written the very first Chinese-language mining tutorial and led the development of the 24-hour settlement protocol. He also co-founded F2Pool, one of the largest mining pools in the world, playing a significant role in establishing China's mining presence on the international stage. Discus Fish continues to be a thought leader for China's cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. He is also the Co-Founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In Cobo, Discus Fish oversees corporate strategy, product design, and domestic marketing.
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Ellaine Xu
Ellaine Xu is the Partner at Bixin Ventures and formerly Head of Research&Investment at Cobo.
Serena Yu
Serena Yu is the chief marketing officer of Antalpha. She was previously the vice president of marketing at Cobo and the senior growth director of Huobi. Serena is an experienced marketing and operations focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. She has successfully led teams, driving user growth and delivering exceptional institutional client services.
Yu Junde
Yu Junde is the global sales director of Cobo. He once served as the vice president of sales at App Annie and graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Jeff (Pablo) R.
Jeff (Pablo) R. is the Founding Partner at Caballeros Capital.Presively,he worked as Marketing Manager at Cobo.
Tavia Wong
Tavia Wong served as Head of Commerce at aelf, Vice President of Global Marketing And Business Development at Cobo, and graduated from Singapore Management University.
Lily Z. King
Ms. Zhuo is the COO at Cobo. Ms. Zhuo has nearly 20 years experience in structuring and facilitating large-scale buyouts, IPOs, privatization and minority investment deals. In 2021, she joined Cobo, Asia's largest digital asset custody and Defi platform, as the Chief Operating Officer. Before Cobo, she was the General Counsel of PAG, one of Asia’s largest alternative investment management firms. Ms. Zhuo spent more than 11 years at PAG and advises both PAG’s buyout funds and growth funds. She leverages her hybrid expertise in law, social policy, finance and technology to design the right structure and mechanism that will make complicated deals work.
Changhao Jiang
Changhao Jiang is the Co-founder and CTO of Cobo. In 2013, he launched China's first cryptocurrency wallet, Bihang, which was later acquired by OKCoin. Before his foray into cryptocurrency, Jiang was a platform engineer at Google and Facebook, where he invented the "Big Pipe" protocol, now a widely-adopted industry standard that reduces website load times by loading elements individually. Jiang received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In Cobo, he leads product development, security, and overseas expansion.
Chess
Chess is the co-founder of QuestN and Hogwarts Labs. He has served as the Operation Head of Cobo and a Partner of BiKi Ventures. Before entering the crypto industry, Chess worked in Internet companies such as 360 and Inke.
Aaron Chen
Aaron Chen is the Chief Technology Officer of Account Labs and has worked at Cobo and IBM. He graduated from Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology.
Thomas Heller
Thomas Heller is the Co-Founder and CMO at Compass Mining. He was previously the Global Business Director at F2Pool. Heller is interested in all things crypto mining and is a bitcoin miner himself. If you want to talk about mining pools, farms, rigs, or mining economics, you can connect with him. Based in Beijing and with a strong understanding of the Chinese mining ecosystem, he can be your go-to person for anything mining-related in China.