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Jim Chang, co-founder of Cata Labs, is currently the Product Manager at Aave and Unstoppable Domains. He graduated 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.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
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.
Rebecca Rettig
Rebecca Rettig is Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon and was previously general counsel at Aave Companies. She also works with policymakers around the world on regulatory matters related to decentralized finance (" DeFi ") and crypto assets.
Olly Wilson
Olly Wilson is the Co-Founder & CEO at SimpleHash. He presively worked at McKinsey & Company. Olly Wilson graduated from Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.
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.
David Silverman
David Silverman is the VP of Product at Polygon Labs.
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.