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Hootie Rashidifard is the Founder & Managing Partner at Hash3.Prior to Hash3, Hootie spent five years at Canaan Partners, where he invested in crypto and fintech. He also launched and co-led the firm’s seed vehicle, Canaan Beta, investing in Skale Labs, Tari/Yat, Commonwealth, Superplastic, and On Deck. Prior to investing, he spent time on the business operations team at LinkedIn and as a tech investmentbanker. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Northwestern University.
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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.
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.
Ping Chen
Ping Chen 是 BitGo 市场主管，毕业于加州大学伯克利分校。
Derrick Fu
Derrick Fu is currently the business development lead of Alchemy. He was previously the product partnerships director of BitGo and the business development director of Lumina. Earlier, he was responsible for business development at LinkedIn and also founded the Global China Connection non-profit organization.
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.
Paul Ridley
Paul Ridley is the CEO of Old Street Digital. Additionally, he is the Wholesale Digital Officer at Nomura. He holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Roy Lu
Roy Lu is a partner at LongHash Ventures and was previously a partner at HashKey Capital.
Juan Hernandez
Juan Hernandez is the Chief Executive Officer of Setter. Presively he was CEO at BLOCKS and OpenFinance Network. Juan Hernandez graduated from Northwestern University.
Michael Egorov
Michael Egorov is the CEO of Curve Finance and co-founder and CTO of NuCypher. Prior to launching NuCypher, Michael worked on infrastructure tools at LinkedIn, where he encountered some of the most difficult scaling issues in the world. He has experience as a scientist and physicist, specializing in a field closely related to quantum computing and cryptography. Michael was a bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.