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Jordan Clifford is the co-founder and managing director of Scalar Capital. Previously, he was the lead growth engineer at Coinbase. Jordan has also worked as a software engineer at several tech startups and as a business analyst at Capital One. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Patrick McGregor
Patrick McGregor is the Chief Product Officer at Crusoe. Presively he worked at Coinbase, Google and Trustwave. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University & Princeton University.
Varun Srinivasan
Varun Srinivasan is Co-Founder at Farcaster. Previously, built crypto things at Coinbase, audio hardware at SoundFocus (YC S13), productivity tools at Microsoft.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
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.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Frank Ma
Frank Ma, co-founder and CEO of Ultiverse, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 and worked at large tech companies in the Bay Area from 2013 to 2015.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is an advisor & investor for crypto/web3 founders and teams. She was the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter Pong
Peter Pong is Head of engineering at Nest Wallet and was previously co-founder and CTO at Lumina. He graduated from Stanford University.
