Details
Marcus Swanepoel is the co-founder of Luno. He previously worked in private equity, consumer and investment banking, with experience across Europe, South East Asia, the United States, and Africa.
Work Experience
Related Figures
Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is the President of Celo. Previously, he worked at General Catalyst Partners and GoDaddy, and co-founded Locu, which was later acquired by GoDaddy in August 2013. He began his career in Morgan Stanley's Global Capital Markets and has also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, and TechnoServe.
SJ Oh
Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.
Ronson Chau
Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.
Chiam Tat Ang
Chiam Tat Ang is the former Head of Treasury at Matrixport. Presively he worked at Standard Chartered Bank, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Chiam graduated from Graduated from Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Vijay Ayyar
Vijay Ayyar is Head of consumer Growth, APAC at Gemini and was previously the VP of International Markets & Growth, leads international strategy and expansion for the business, aiming to establish our brand and presence globally. In his previous roles at Luno, another leading crypto wallet and exchange, he launched and led operations in 40+ markets globally while working closely with regulators and bank partners in a number of jurisdictions. He also led investments into multiple crypto, FinTech, and payment startups, and explored Web3 wallets and emerging market stablecoins with partners.
Luke Li
Luke Li is the Head of Markets at Amber Group. Previously, Luke was a Credit Strat, FID Department at Morgan Stanley. Luke holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the Columbia University.
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others.Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley.Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Yida Gao
Yida Gao is a General Partner at Shima Capital. Also serves as a member of the Open Campus (EDU) committee,Previously, he was a General Partner at Divergence Digital Currency and Struck Capital. He was also a technology investor at NEA, one of the world's largest VC funds with over $20 billion in AUM. Before that, Yida was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York City, where he helped execute deals worth a total of $15 billion. Yida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and was a varsity pole vaulter. He attended Stanford GSB for a brief period before dropping out to join Struck Capital. He graduated from MIT and dropped out of his MBA from Stanford Business School.
Tania Tse
Tania is the co-founder of Sleek. She is an active contributor to various ETH/SOL NFT communities, including CloneX and MonkeDAO. She is also passionate about onboarding young female talent into Web3, and has hosted educational workshops with the Women's Foundation in Hong Kong. Before embarking on her venture in Web3, she was an associate in the Technology Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc in Politics and Economics.
Dave Shin
Dave Shin is LayerZero's Head of Asia Pacific BD and was the Head of Business Development, Asia and EMEA at Immutable.
