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Jake Schwartz is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
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Andrew Israel
Andrew Israel is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.
Philip Simotas
Philip Simotas is an Investment Partner at New Form focusing on liquid opportunities. He has 30+ years of experience in business development, risk mgmt, operations, and trading. Most recently, Phil was the CFO of Datawhys, a data analytics SaaS firm; COO & head of Business Development of ROW asset mgmt, a $1.5B quantitative global macro fund; and President of FX Concepts, a $14B investment mgmt firm specializing in global fixed income and foreign exchange. Phil graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in Economics.
Can Sun
Can Sun was previously general counsel at FTX. He is also a J.D. from Yale University.
Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is Head of Staked at Kraken and was previously co-founder and CEO of Staked. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdBuyer.com, which was acquired by Mediaocean in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
Alex Marinier
Alex Marinier is Founder & General Partner at New Form. Previously, Alex was an investor at Sand Hill firm DCM Ventures, where he led the firm's expansion into blockchain investing. Prior to that, Alex worked in private equity at Blackstone in New York underwriting secondary transactions. He's a seed investor in Compound Finance, Blockfolio, and Chia among others. A native New Yorker, Alex holds a BSc from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business.
Yuan Xia
Yuan Xia is the Founder & CEO of Secure3. Previously, he worked for GGV Capital, Airbnb, and Facebook. He is also the Founding Director & CSO of CertiK. He graduated from Purdue University and Yale University.
Jazear Brooks
Jazear Brooks is the co-founder of Sifchain.
Srini Dhulipala
Srini Dhulipala is a General Partner at New Form managing Liquid Opportunities. He has 20+ years of experience running business verticals in risk management, portfolio construction and trading. Formerly, he was CIO & Founder of Kildonan Castle Asset Management; Head of Proprietary Credit trading and Global Head of Credit trading at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America; Credit Derivatives trader at Morgan Stanley. A former automotive design engineer, Srini holds and MBA from Columbia University and MS (Mech Eng) from Virginia Tech.
Jeremy Wallis
Jeremy Wallis is an Investment Partner focused on blockchain infrastructure products. Prior to New Form, Jeremy was responsible for blockchain investing at Stonegate Digital. Before that, Jeremy worked on PE transactions at Boston-based Kamylon Holdings and also founded a currency exchange startup. He holds a BSc in economics from George Washington University.
Virginia Tiernan
Virginia Tiernan is Chief of Staff at New Form. Previously, Virginia worked in the Government Relations division at Blackstone with a focus on real estate. Prior to that, Virginia was in the Global Government Affairs division at Carlyle and covered real estate, aerospace and defense, and infrastructure assets. She graduated from Harvard with a BA in Government and received honors for her thesis on political threats to the dollar as the world reserve currency.