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Lian Zhu is the Co-founder and CEO of Aperture Finance, a DeFi platform for structured products. Prior to starting Aperture, he had served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Technical Program Manager at Netflix for 3 years respectively. Lian founded Internest Inc., a Natural Language Processing (NPL) focused startup that empowers multi-media marketing, localization, and publishing. He obtained his Executive MBA degree from UC Berkeley in 2022. An American Association of Chinese Writers member, he has published over 30 books, including the Chinese translation of Revival by Stephen King and the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series.
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Peiqian Li
Peiqian Li is co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance and was previously a senior software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Gao Han
Gao Han is the co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance. He was previously a software engineer at Google and Amazon. Gao Han attended the University at Buffalo from 2011 to 2013, where they studied Computer Science. Gao then transferred to Cornell University, where they completed a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science in 2015.
Emiliano Bonassi
Angel investor, Web3 researcher, and investor with a strong interest in security; former manager at AWS Cloud and Yearn Finance.
Belinda Zhou
Belinda Zhou is the Founding Partner at Sharding Capital. She graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and Cambridge University in the UK.
Raagulan Pathy
Raagulan Pathy is the VP, Asia Pacific & CEO Singapore at Circle. Presively he worked at Zoom, Facebook and Amazon Web Services.
Henry Chan
Henry Chan is the Co-Founder and Head of Product and Innovation at Artifact Labs. Presively he worked at Deloitte Consulting and Amazon.He graduated from University of Washington.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Rijndael
Rijndael is the chief technology officer at Taproot Wizards. Before coming to Taproot Wizards, he worked as the technical lead at Amazon’s NFT project and more recently on Bitkey’s self-custody wallet.
Dovey Wan
Dovey Wan is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a long-term focused cryptoasset investment fund which she co-founded with Eric Meltzer. Before Primitive Ventures, Dovey was the Managing Director of DHVC (formerly Danhua Capital). From 2012 to 2015, Dovey worked at eBay as a Data Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager. During this time, she was also the US Chief Representative for 36kr, a Chinese media, fundraising, and incubator company.
Greg Jizmagian
Greg Jizmagian is the Co-Founder and CTO at Exponential DeFi. Previously, he worked as a Business and Technology Leader at Amazon. Greg Jizmagian graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.