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JD Ross is Co-Founder of royal. Previously Co-founder of Opendoor, and of Villa Homes, Playbook, Butter, and others as a General Partner at Atomic.
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Jason Novack
Jason Novack is Venture Partner at Graph Paper Capital and formerly Program Director Tachyon Accelerator & BizOps at consensys Labs, supporting Web3 ventures with the Tachyon Accelerator. Previously at Pilotship, Clarifai, Placemeter, Aerospace Engineer.
Eddy Lazzarin
Eddy Lazzarin is the Head of Engineering and an Investing Partner at a16z crypto. The Engineering and Research Teams support the investing process and collaborate with portfolio companies to build the future of the internet. Before a16z crypto, Eddy was a Software Engineer at Netflix, working on data ingestion systems, and a Data Engineer at Facebook, working on growth analytics and modeling for Messenger. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and an M.S. in Computer Science (concentrating in Statistical Computing) from Washington University in St. Louis, where he researched behavioral economics and game theory with Leonard Green.
Derek Moen
Derek Moen is a Product Manager at Royal, with a career spanning from Biotech to Fintech to web3. He has experience developing gene therapies for rare pediatric diseases, driving adoption of explainable AI models for credit underwriting, and harnessing Big Data to help shoppers get the best deals on the Internet. Currently, he is working on OUSD, the leading decentralized, yield-generating stablecoin, and was a Co-Founder of Archimedes.
Chris Adams
Chris is formerly Head of Talent at Shima Capital, formerly the Head of Talent at Atomic VC where he helped scale teams from seed to Series C and implemented talent programs for early teams. He was also the first Sourcer at Uber, having personally hired 300 candidates and leading a team of 20. He has also recruited for Google and Pinterest.
Michael J. Cohen
Michael J. Cohen is Freelance web & web3 developer. Formerly, Software Engineer at Criterion 360, Associate - Equity Research at Citi.
Will Papper
Will Papper is Co-founder of the Syndicate Protocol. He was previously a Product Manager at Proxy and has been passionate about Ethereum since the 2014 presale. He tweets about DAOs, smart contracts, and VCs, focusing on the impact that technology has on society. He is also the Founder of Librarian AI and a Philosophy major at Stanford.
Justin David Blau
Justin David Blau, better known by his stage name 3LAU, is an American DJ and producer of electronic dance music.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent