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Marshall Beard is the Chief Strategy Officer at Gemini, where he leads and manages the marketing, business development, and strategy & corporate development teams. Prior to joining Gemini, Beard worked for the digital media brand Barstool Sports as their Chief of Staff, focusing on corporate strategy and operations. He previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant in their Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group. Beard began his career at Prudential Financial, with a focus on corporate finance. He holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Southern Maine.
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Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012. In addition to being President of Gemini, he and his brother Tyler are currently seeking SEC approval for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, a Bitcoin ETF, and have launched the WinkDex, a Bitcoin price index that will price the ETF.
Stephan Lutz
As the Group CEO and CFO of BitMEX, Stephan Lutz lead one of the world's most innovative and trusted cryptocurrency derivatives trading platforms.
Shane Molidor
Shane Molidor was CEO of Business Development at AscendEX, former Global Head of FBG One, which is the client-facing trading division of FBG Capital. FBG One operates an over-the-counter (“OTC”) desk to service clients seeking to trade large quantities of crypto assets, as well as a designated market making program to support token projects following issuance. FBG One trades upwards of $1B per month, and the team consists of over 20 professionals across trading, IT, and business development. Prior to joining FBG One, Mr. Molidor worked in business development at Gemini Trust Company, LLC: a fully regulated New York-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Mr. Molidor has worked alongside premiere trading institutions, token projects, and regulators in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since 2015. His experience has equipped him with an intimate understanding of exchange infrastructure, custody solutions, evolving regulation, and marketplace dynamics. Mr. Molidor holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and also attended The London School of Economics where he studied Economics.
Shaun Blackburn
Shaun Blackburn is Deputy CISO at Gemini
Simon Wu
Simon Wu is the co-founder of Meex and formerly served as the chief security officer of Huobi.
Vanessa Grellet
Vanessa Grellet is a managing partner at Aglaé Ventures and was previously head of portfolio growth at CoinFund and executive director at ConsenSys. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she was the CEO of IIH, an innovative Wealth Management firm, a key member of PwC's global wealth management team, and a Corporate Strategy Executive for the NYSE, focusing on M&A.
Gilbert Verdian
As the founder and CEO of Quant, Gilbert is focused on unlocking the power of blockchain for everyone, so as to create an empowered and interconnected world.
Eugene Ng
Eugene Ng is the Co-Founder at OpenEden. He also is the Adviser, Founding Partner at DWF LABS. Presively he worked as Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific at Gemini and Matrixport. Eugene Ng graduated from New York University-Stern School of Business.
Duncan Cock Foster
Duncan Cock Foster is the co-founder and director of Nifty Gateway.
Ajit Tripathi
Ajit Tripathi is currently a strategic advisor at Polygon Labs, the leading ethereum scalability solution, assisting the institutional and Defi teams frequently as well as Growth, DevRel and marketing occasionally. The last five years of his career have been devoted to building bridges between financial institutions and the crypto/internet of value ecosystem. This includes launching Aave Arc, the first permissioned Defi protocol for Institutions, building banking and payments rails for Binance and Paxful, advising crypto startups, driving the buildout of the fintech practice for ConsenSys and building the UK Blockchain Business for PwC.