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Joseph Eagan was the President of Polychain Capital, managing all non-investment related activities. He had previously been the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development for Tiger Legatus, a long/short equity hedge fund. From 2008 to 2014, Joe was a Principal at Investcorp, working within the Hedge Fund Group's business development team, focusing primarily on Investcorp's seeding business. Before joining Investcorp, Joe managed risk arbitrage and special situations portfolios at Amber Capital and Naufal Capital, both event-driven hedge funds. Joe started his career at Bank of America in the media and telecom investment banking division, where he worked on M&A transactions and related debt and equity financings. Joe holds a BA in Political Science from Georgetown University in Washington DC.
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Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Thomas Scaria
Thomas Scaria is the Co-founder and CEO of Lore. He previously worked at Polychain Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Sam Rosenblum
Sam Rosenblum is a Partner at Haun Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at Polychain Capital, Director of Business Development at Coinbase, Global Strategy Associate at Visa, and Analyst at Lake Partners Strategy Consultants. He obtained his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a part of the UCLA Honors College and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
Sherwin Dowlat
Sherwin Dowlat was a Portfolio Manager and Partner at Polychain Capital. He has worked at renowned firms such as Susquehanna International Group and Wedbush Securities, specializing in technology stocks, equity derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. At present, Mr. Dowlat is deeply engaged in his work and dedicated to achieving outstanding results. He previously obtained his education at San Diego State University.
Chase Lochmiller
Chase is an avid tech enthusiast passionate about enabling new technologies such as AI and blockchain to positively impact people's lives. Before founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets, and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was formerly a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the "seven summits" including Mount Everest.
Ben Perszyk
Ben Perszyk is a Partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he worked as a Product Specialist at Airbnb, collaborating with Data Science, Design, and Development teams to analyze product data and enhance user experience. Prior to that, he served several outdoor brands.
Alex Leishman
Alexander Leishman is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer at River Financial. He brings his expertise in software engineering, information security, and Bitcoin to River, where he is responsible for investor relations, corporate strategy, and engineering. Prior to co-founding River Financial, Alexander worked on the investment and engineering teams at Polychain Capital and Polychain Labs, focusing on Bitcoin-related venture investments. He has also served as an engineer at Airbnb's security team, a management consultant for Deloitte, and was an early engineer at Maicoin, Taiwan's largest digital asset exchange. Mr. Leishman holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he assisted in teaching the first Bitcoin class under Professor Dan Boneh.
Anish Agnihotri
Anish Agnihotri is an independent researcher working in MEV. Previously, he was a researcher at Paradigm, built performant trading systems at Polychain Capital, and expanded test automation at 1Password.
William Wolf
William Wolf is the Partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he was responsible for Payment-related Development at Airbnb as a Founding Team Member at Tilt.com, as a Technical Director; as a Senior Software Developer at Siteworx, managing Technical Decisions, Implementation, Resource Cooperation and Strategy for each Project; at Rackspace to establish Webmail.us Email Hosting Platform. He has over a decade of experience building high-quality products and extensive experience in Distributed Systems and Team Management.
Rob Witoff
Rob Witoff is a co-founder and CEO of Unit 410, where he focuses on securely launching protocols. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer at Polychain Capital, as a partner at Amplify Partners, and as a security engineer at Google. Rob is renowned for his ability to create something great from nothing.