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As President of Pantera, Jasper drives and oversees the strategic vision, direction, and operational management of the firm. He has over twenty years of leadership experience across Global Investment Management firms. For close to a decade, he served as Business Unit Head and Senior Leader at Bridgewater Associates, where he managed and transformed the Investment, Client, and Operational areas of the firm. Prior to Bridgewater, Jasper held several senior strategy and operational roles, including Global Head of Strategy at UBS, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at Citigroup, and COO of Citigroup's Real Estate private equity business. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has worked in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jasper has a LLM from the University of Cambridge and Finance, Economics, and Law degrees from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he grew up.
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Steve Waterhouse
Steve Waterhouse is the co-founder and CEO of Orchid Labs and the founder of Nazare Ventures. From its inception in 2013 until July 2016, Steven was a partner at Pantera Capital, focused on blockchain investments. He served on the board of Bitstamp till 2016. Steven was a Co-founder and CTO of RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC) and previously Director and founder of the Honeycomb product group at Sun Microsystems. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus in speech recognition and machine learning. Steven is an avid waterman and loves the kelp-filled cold waters of the Pacific west coast.
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.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Belinda Zhou
Belinda Zhou is the Founding Partner at Sharding Capital. She graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and Cambridge University in the UK.
Munaf Ali
Munaf Ali is the founder and CEO of Phoenix Group and was previously a vice president at Citigroup.
Sajjad R.
Sajjad R. is the Vice President of Revenue at Immunefi. He was previously a design engineer turned venture capitalist and GTM leader. He graduated from Cambridge University.
Caspar Sauter
Caspar Sauter is the co-founder of D8X development company Quantena. He formerly worked for UBS and has a master's degree in economics and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Neuchâtel.
Cynthia Alexander
Cynthia Alexander is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mentaport. She has expertise in Web3, FinTech, and Computational Biology, bringing a wealth of knowledge to the table. She was the founding lead data scientist at PayJoy, a FinTech company focused on extending credit in emerging markets. Cynthia was instrumental in scaling analytics, AI, and ML initiatives from a few thousand to over a million registered users. Prior to that, she was classically trained as a computational biologist at prestigious institutions such as the University of Cambridge and Max Plank. Together with her co-founder, she is constructing the future of NFTs.
Jeff Ren
Jeff Ren is the CIO of OKX Ventrues and has over 20 years of experience in finance, including as an executive Director at UBS.
