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Jim Bai is an investor in Electric Capital and was previously the co-founder of EMX. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science.
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Mark Pimentel
Mark Pimentel is Co-Founder, Kronos Research. He is a high frequency trader & blockchain enterpreneur who moved to Taipei after more than a decade of experience in New York and Chicago. He co-founded Kronos Research, which develops and tokenizes quantitative trading strategies in the cryptocurrency asset class.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is the Co-CEO of IVK.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
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.
Louis de Vallière
Louis de Vallière is VP of Design at BitGo and formerly Co-Founder & CPO at Lumina.
Munaf Ali
Munaf Ali is the founder and CEO of Phoenix Group and was previously a vice president at Citigroup.
Jasper Lewitton
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.
Brian Pak
Brian Pak is CEO & Co-Founder of ChainLight, an award-winning blockchain security firm that specializes in smart contract audits and on-chain monitoring. He is also a co-founder of Theori, an established US-based offensive cybersecurity company, since 2016, which he still leads today, having now amassed trusted partners including Microsoft, Google and Samsung. Brian’s early career started when he co-founded and developed Kaprica Security, inventing and patenting the Skorpion Charger, an Android mobile charger that can detect malicious software with no user action required. He has worked on research and development projects with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the US. Brian graduated with a Masters Degree in Software Security Research from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jason Y.
Jason Y. is the Founder at Hooked Protocol.Presively,he worked as Growth Manager at Uber and Meta.Jason Y graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jamsheed Shorish
Jamsheed Shorish is a computational economist, holding a PhD from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. His work includes some of the earliest applications of neural networks to asset pricing and rational learning, complex systems analysis within the econophysics paradigm, and formal modeling of the (meta)stability of agent-based dynamic games. He has recently contributed to the literature on token valuation and cryptoeconomics and approaches the engineering of tokens from an incentive design perspective. Dr Shorish is the CEO and founder of Shorish Research in Belgium, which provides consulting services specialising in Computational Business and disruptive fintech-related technological innovation. Shorish Research is a cooperative partner of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics in Vienna.