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Erin Brown is the Chief Operating Officer of Galaxy Digital. She is a seasoned executive with significant experience in treasury, risk, and trading operations. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Brown served as Chief Risk Officer at Jump Trading and was formerly the Head of Global Treasury and Operations at DRW.
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Samridh Saluja
Samridh Saluja is the Co-Founder at Guardrail. Presively He worked at LinkedIn. Samridh graduated from University of California, Berkeley.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and formerly a research analyst at CoinDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Robert Mao
Robert Mao is the founder of ArcBlock and co-founder of AIGNE. Previously, he was an engineer at Microsoft. He graduated from Southeast University.
Tim Grant
Tim Grant is the former Head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Galaxy Digital. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Digital Exchange. Before heading SDX, Tim served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DrumG Technologies. He holds a MA in Materials Science and Metallurgy from Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, as well as a MSc in Financial Engineering from Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Chase Lochmiller
Chase is an avid tech enthusiast passionate about enabling new technologies such as AI and blockchain to positively impact people's lives. Before founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets, and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was formerly a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the "seven summits" including Mount Everest.
Jon Kol
Jon Kol is the co-founder of Hyperlane. Previously, he was a Vice President at Galaxy Digital, an investor at Passport Capital, and a fixed income analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim is the co-founder of Arbelos and previously Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.
David Schwed
David Schwed is the Chief Operating Officer of Halborn and has previously served as the Global Head of Digital Asset Technology at Bank of New York Mellon.
Yuan Sun
Yuan Sun is a co-founder of Nest Wallet and was previously a data scientist at LinkedIn and Google. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and Northwestern University.
Alex Thorn
Alex Thorn is Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. He was formerly an Investor at Avon Ventures, where he invested in digital assets and bitcoin/crypto/blockchain companies, and a Director of Blockchain Research at Fidelity Investments. At Avon Ventures, he was responsible for investing in early stage ventures working on bitcoin, cryptoassets, and blockchain technology, as the venture fund is affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. At Fidelity, he conducted and produced research on bitcoin, cryptoassets, digital assets, and blockchain technology at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and Fidelity Labs. He also represented Fidelity Institutional to state and federal regulators, investigated and responded to inquiries and examinations made by regulatory agencies, liaised with the Legal Department on complex litigation and regulatory matters resulting from regulatory scrutiny or inquiries, innovated technology and systems solutions for the compliance team to create more efficient business processes, workflows, and strategies, and consulted on emerging technology issues, including cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and cyber security. Additionally, he managed the document review process for Fidelity Legal, consulted with in-house counsel and management on discovery processes, innovated procedures and created efficiencies to improve quality, managed vendor relationships for data processing and hosting, oversaw or directly managed hundreds of cases affecting all Fidelity business units, acted as a project manager communicating clearly with in-house and outside attorneys, business partners, and management, and coordinated projects to successful outcomes. He also advised enterprise infrastructure and business units regarding the use of new media, data sources, and communications tools in a regulated environment, promoted Fidelity's positions on retention, legal discovery, and social media at conferences and to external parties and industry groups, performed interviews in support of litigation and ensured accuracy and integrity of data collected, collaborated with design teams to develop business processes and software necessary to create a centralized litigation research team, acted as a gatekeeper responsible for extracting information from legal documents served on Fidelity and identifying specific allegations and potential business issues, conducted research to identify and collect evidence for litigation and regulatory investigations, researched and managed evidentiary case files for over 200 legal investigations, and trained 5 new hires before leaving this role.
