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Marco Manoppo is an investor in Primitive Ventures and was previously Research Director and Team Leader at Digital Asset Research. He is a graduate of Purdue University and Canisius College.
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Jonathan Chan
Jonathan is the Global Head of Business Development at Wintermute, a leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets. He has over 10 years of experience in trading, including derivatives and options with Citadel Securities and BlackEdge Capital, as well as investments with Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a co-founder and general Partner of DBA and previously was co-head of Investments at Galaxy Digital. Michael previously led Galaxy's efforts on Fireblocks (Series A, B, and C), Tagomi (now Coinbase Instituteal), and Bison Trails (now Coinbase) Cloud), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and other foundational winners.
Kunal Karani
Kunal Karani is the chief Business officer of E Money Network after being the co-founder of Finance Blocks. He also served as CEO and chief strategy officer of Turing Labs. Kunal Karani is a 4-time entrepreneur with over 10 years of technology experience and a deep understanding of multiple sectors. He graduated from Purdue University in the United States.
George Spasov
George Spasov is the founder and blockchain architect of LimeChain. He graduated from the Sofia Technical University and the New Bulgarian University.
Jacob McDorman
Jacob McDorman is the co-founder and CTO of Saga and previously was the co-founder of Cellaflora, a software consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Purdue University.
Evgeny Gaevoy
Evgeny Gaevoy is the CEO of Wintermute Trading, a global digital asset trading company focused on algo trading and HFT. He has over 10 years of experience in growing fintech businesses.
Nisa Amoils
Nisa Amoils isa managing partner at A100x Ventures and previously worked at Nasdaq Ventures. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.
Xiahong Lin
Xiahong Lin is the co-founder of Continue Capital, he founded the blockchain prediction market Bodhi, and worked as a Twitter Android developer.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Igor Igamberdiev
Igor Igamberdiev is Head of Research at Wintermute, formerly at Paradigm and Director of Research at The Block.
