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Elena Nadolinski is the founder and CEO of Iron Fish and graduated from Virginia Tech. She worked at Microsoft to develop the Windows 10 virtual assistant Cortana before moving to Silicon Valley startup Tilt in July 2016.
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Marek Olszewski
Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo and the President at Valora. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Rituraj Yadav
Rituraj Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Sonic Wallet. He has an undergrad in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, New York. He started his career building large-scale distributed cloud systems at Microsoft Azure and got intrigued into working on blockchain. After Microsoft, He worked as Senior Engineer at Zenefits where he built Zenefits Payroll and Zenefits International Contractor Payments - the systems process billions of dollars in transactions. Later, he joined WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Facebook) where he worked on building WhatsApp Payments that provided financial services to hundreds of million people across the globe.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Daniel Larimer
Dan Larimer, also known as BM, is a genius programmer and the only creator in the world who has produced three consecutive blockchain products in the top 50 by market capitalization. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His dream has always been to find a free market solution that can guarantee people's lives, freedom, and property security, and make the world a better place. He realized that everything had to start with free currency. In 2013, many Bitcoin exchanges were shut down by the US government, and bank accounts were also seized. At this time, BM began developing the world's first decentralized exchange, Bitshares, and invented bitUSD, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. In the following two years, Dan systematically solved many of the problems that blockchain technology encountered in application. For example, for the trading speed requirement of 100,000 transactions per second for exchanges, Dan developed the Graphene technology solution. In early 2016, Dan developed the Steem blockchain based on his new understanding and developed the Steemit social media application on this public chain. The DPoS consensus mechanism he proposed is based on the concept of shareholder voting to elect validators, which is used to prevent three to five large mining pools from attacking the network and achieve maximum decentralization. Concerns about the risks of DPoS are actually ignoring greater risks. The lack of unity between token holders and decision-makers is a greater risk for the network. In 2017, at the New York Consensus Conference, BM introduced the ambitious EOS project to the world, with the goal of becoming the operating system of the blockchain industry and being seen as a strong competitor to Ethereum. With parallel computing, millions of TPS, and no transaction fees, EOS contains several important features that, if successful, will make blockchain technology a truly practical technology.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Alex Skidanov
Alex Skidanov is the Co-Founder of NEAR. He previously worked for Microsoft and was the first engineer to join MemSQL. He was involved in writing and constructing the world's fastest distributed relational database, which has been used by Uber, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and Intel, among others.
Miljan Braticevic
Miljan Braticevic is the Founder & CEO at Primal.
Tomasz Wojewoda
Tomasz Wojewoda is Head of Business Development at BNB Chain and previously Head of Scroll Growth and Chainlink Sales. He is a graduate of Babson College.
Charles (Chad) DePue
Chad DePue is a general partner at Uncommon Projects and formerly served as Vice President of Engineering at Uniswap.