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Kevin Sekniqi is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AVA Labs, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a researcher in distributed systems, with a particular focus on blockchain technology, and actively participates in various entrepreneurial projects to develop new paradigms for achieving higher scalability, throughput, and latency in distributed applications.
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John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
Ethan Feldman
Ethan Feldman is the CTO of Talos. He is responsible for leading the firm's global technology organization. Before co-founding Talos, Mr. Feldman spent 10 years at Broadway Technology working with Talos co-founder Anton Katz. During his time at Broadway, he developed technology for many leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. His technology career started at Microsoft. Mr. Feldman holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Maria Shen
Maria is a general partner on the investment team at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices. Maria received her A.B. in Government from Harvard and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell.ㅤ
Phillip Liu Jr.
Phillip Liu Jr. is the COO of The Arena and a founding member and former head of strategy at Ava Labs.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Mind Apivessa
Mind Apivessa is the co-founder of Station Labs, previously held positions at Meta and IBM. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Conner Symmetry
Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
