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Ethan Buchman is CEO of Informal Systems and formerly CTO of Tendermint. Ethan Buchman is an Internet Biophysicist. With background in cell biology, neuroscience, mathematics, machine learning, and distributed computing, his goal is to build tools that encourage humans to self-organize into functional systems, much like molecules managed to self-organize into Life.
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Brian Fabian Crain
Brian Fabian Crain is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chorus One, working on getting Cosmos Network. Co-host Epicenter podcast Epicenter, Founder Blockchain Meetup Berlin. Brian Fabian Crain is a Berlin-based economist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-host of the blockchain podcast Epicenter (250+ episodes, 4m+ downloads), founder and organizer of Blockchain Meetup Berlin. He is also co-founder & CEO of Chorus One. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and cognitive science from the University of Chicago, London School of Economics and University College London.
Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder at Sommelier. He has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus systems. Additionally, he is an advisor to the Cosmos project, as well as several other investment funds and startups in the space.
Jelena Djuric
Jelena Djuric is the Co-Founder & CEO of Noble. She is the Former Community Manager of DFINITY. Jelena Djuric graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Jae Kwon
Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and co-founder of Tendermint, as well as the President of the Interchain Foundation. After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, he worked as a professional developer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa and Yelp, where he led the mobile application development team. He also co-founded iDoneThis, a productivity service. Jae has worked on numerous open-source projects, such as a CoffeeScript compiler/interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io, and a cryptocurrency exchange. These projects were inspired by the cryptopunk hacker ethos, which ultimately led to his current work with Tendermint. In 2014, Jae created the Tendermint project, and he, along with Ethan Buchman and Zarko Milosevic, further refined the Tendermint consensus algorithm and implementation, with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the costs and drawbacks of proof-of-work mining. His mission is to make this technology more accessible, in order to accelerate the adoption of decentralized ledger technology.
Albert Chon
Albert Chon is Co-founder and CTO of Injective Protocol, building the future of decentralized exchange. He was formerly a Consultant at OpenZeppelin and a Software Engineer at Amazon. For fun, he enjoys painting, skiing, photography, and learning about crypto, ML, cybersecurity, math, finance, psychology, longevity, cool tech, and new ways of thinking.
Jin Kwon
Jin Kwon is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Saga and previously served as vice president of corporate development at Ignite. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Griffin Anderson
Griffin Anderson is the co-founder of Archway and Phi Labs. Previously, he worked as the Head of Product at Ignite and Senior Director of Product Management at ConsenSys. Griffin graduated from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Adriana Laura Mihai
Adriana Laura Mihai is the VP of Marketing and Community at Ignite.
Karthik Bupathi
Karthik Bupathi is a founding partner of Arcanum Capital and has worked at Saga and Ignite.
Lucas Bertrand
Lucas Bertrand is the Head of Product at Ignite. He is an Engineer and product manager specialized in blockchain, web3, and DeFi technologies.