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Eric Brown is the Co-Founder and COO of Franklin. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.
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Bala Varadhan
In his role at Fidelity Investments, Bala Varadhan is responsible for Avon Ventures. Bala Varadhan graduated from Northwestern University.
Megan Knab
Megan Knab is the Co-founder and CEO of Franklin, as well as a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VeriLedger. Prior to starting VeriLedger, Megan helped to launch an agency brokerage platform at ConsenSys. Before that, she spent five years focusing on operational finance at Wall Street firms. Megan is passionate about creating systems that facilitate the adoption of cryptocurrencies by businesses.
Alexia Bonatsos
Alexia Bonatsos is a writer, investor and startup hound, who has worked for some of the most notable media outlets, including TechCrunch, SF Weekly and LA Weekly. She currently serves as Founder and Managing Director of Dream Machine, a full-time position she has held since 2016. Alexia also volunteers as an Editor for All Raise, editing and strategizing blog content to showcase luminary female founders and funders. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. Her skills include digital media, new media, and related fields.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Thomas Scaria
Thomas Scaria is the Co-founder and CEO of Lore. He previously worked at Polychain Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Allen Ng
Allen Ng is the founder and CEO of EVG, and the co-founder of Kikitrade, a Crypto social investment platform.
William Luedtke
William Luedtke is the Founder & CEO at Intuition.Presively, he worked at Layer 0 Ventures, ConsenSys. William graduated from University of Southern California.
Jaypee Alanís
Jaypee Alan¨ªs is the Co-Founder of StoryCo. He has worked as a Director of Creative & Strategy for Whalerock Industries for two years, a Development Executive for Echoverse for one year, and a General Manager for GOLF MEDIA by Tyler, The Creator for three and a half years. He also served as a Product Manager for Whalerock Industries for one and a half years. J.P. holds a Bachelor of Business in Cinematic Arts (BCA) degree from the University of Southern California
Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the co-founder and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan is a Podcast Host at Good Game Podcast, a Core Contributor for Alliance, and a Co-Founder and Venture Partner for Volt Capital. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business.