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Josh Felker is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Josh was founder of Montreal-based proprietary trading firm Vigilant Global, a leader in latency-sensitive and technology-driven trading which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012. Josh served as a partner at DRW for 5 years where he helped to oversee a highly diversified global trading firm spanning liquidity provision operations, risking-taking/directional trading, venture investing, and cryptocurrency trading. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in genetics from Western University and is a father of four.
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Michael Sanders
Michael Sanders is the Chief Storyteller and Co-Founder of Horizon Blockchain Games. He is an investor and advisor in various industries, including blockchain, clean energy, education, real estate, precious stones, music, and dance. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment. Michael is passionate about storytelling, exploration, athletics, and movement. He practices sound nutrition, regular introspection, daily meditation, and play. He strives to embody unconditional love and to treat each and every thing and person as a sovereign being that is free to make its own choices.
Jessy
Jessy is Head of Ecosystem at EigenLayer, Venture Partner at Nascent, and previously worked as an investment analyst at ZhenFund.
Austin Abell
Austin Abell is formerly Software developer at NEAR Protocol and Technical Lead at ChainSafe Systems. Ugraded go-ethereum classic Atlantis and Aghara hard forks; Developed Ethermint, EVM on Tendermint, with support for existing Ethereum dev tooling; Led a team to build Forest, a Rust Filecoin node implementation.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Ethan Jackson
Ethan Jackson is the Co-Founder and Machine Learning Scientist at ChainML. Previously, he was a Machine Learning Scientist at Vector Institute, where he served as the AI technical lead for projects in privacy-enhancing techniques, time series forecasting, and large-scale mobility data modeling. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, focusing on applied machine learning for economic forecasting, and a Data Scientist at Preteckt, building ML models for predictive maintenance in transportation. Ethan holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Western University, with a focus on reinforcement learning.
Josh Felker
Josh Felker is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Josh was founder of Montreal-based proprietary trading firm Vigilant Global, a leader in latency-sensitive and technology-driven trading which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012. Josh served as a partner at DRW for 5 years where he helped to oversee a highly diversified global trading firm spanning liquidity provision operations, risking-taking/directional trading, venture investing, and cryptocurrency trading. Josh has a bachelor’s degree in genetics from Western University and is a father of four.
Theresa Regenstreif
Theresa Regenstreif leads Finance, Operations, and People at Nascent. Previously, Theresa was Head of Finance at an early stage Fintech company that was acquired, with a VC who built and invested in early stage consumer facing Fintech companies, and worked with an impact investor seeding early stage agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Theresa holds a graduate degree in Accountancy from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Jamil Nazarali
Jamil Nazarali is the Chief Executive Officer at EDX Markets.Presively, he worked as Global Head of Business Development at Citadel Securities.He graduated from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and holds an MBA degree from the University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
Matt Spataro
Matt Spataro is the General Partner at Builder Capital. He also is the Co-Founder at Crypto Coin Society and KARMA.Matt Spataro holds a MBA degree from The University of Western Ontario - Richard Ivey School of Business.
Harry Liu
Harry Liu is the CEO at Forj.He also worked at Apecoin Accelerator.Presively, he was Google Partner.Harry Liu graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the University of Waterloo in Canada.