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Matt Bridges was Chief Operating Officer at Flipside Crypto, a talented technologist and leader. He currently serves as COO at Flipside Crypto. Previously, as CTO of Intrepid, he grew a small boutique agency into the largest mobile development team in Boston. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, with a track record of successful products including Timbre, the live music discovery app. Prior to Intrepid, he spent more than a decade working with Ray Kurzweil to develop industry leading pattern recognition technology for NLP, image processing, and quantitative finance. I love software. I lead teams that build amazing products. I didn't get my first taste of product development until almost a decade into my career, tasked with turning experimental technology into a consumer product. I realized two things: 1) Consumer software is challenging, frustrating, and unpredictable and 2) I LOVE it.
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Alex Gedevani
Alex Gedevani is Investment Associate at Sfermion. Formerly Research Associate at Delphi Digital, Financial Analyst at Barclays, Community Analyst at Messari.
Jim Myers
Jim has been an active participant in blockchain for several years. At one point, he even used Bitcoin to purchase real products, thinking it was "neat". In retrospect, this wasn't so neat. Previously, Jim was the head of engineering at Mylestone, a company he co-founded in early 2016. Before Mylestone, Jim led the research and development of patent-pending skill recommendation algorithms at Pluralsight. He joined Pluralsight in 2014, following the acquisition of Smarterer, a machine learning-based skill assessment company. At Smarterer, Jim was an early engineer who built advanced machine learning technology and enterprise software adopted by Fortune 100 companies. Jim's passion for building extends to the broader startup community through his developer event series, Stack Dive, and as an angel investor to several local startups, including AdHawk and LinkSquares. In another life, Jim developed advanced models to quantify risk and abnormal returns in the market for Financial Transmission Rights, a type of energy derivative.
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is the co-founder and Chief of Delphi Digital, and previously worked as a stock analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He has a background in traditional equity research and provided insights into global equity markets for numerous institutional clients before serving as a US equity strategist. He has extensive experience in market data analysis and research and is frequently quoted or involved in discussions by financial news media. Currently, he is committed to improving institutional understanding of the cryptocurrency field and its allocation benefits in today's unique investment environment.
Piers Kicks
Piers Kicks is Partner, Head of Gaming at Delphi Digital. Exploring the emergence of the Metaverse through the lens of decentralized networks. Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in a video game. After reaching 69 global in Rainbow Six Siege (over 50 million players), building his own RSPS, being a first generation virtual reality user, and growing up with crypto, he leverages his unique insight into the undercurrents of the web to cross the digital divide. Computer science and philosophy background, entrepreneurial with a global digital asset network. Hunting asymmetric crypto/venture investment opportunities in early stage projects that seek to advance and support the decentralized dream.
Eric Stone
Eric Stone leads all algorithm development and data science initiatives at Flipside Crypto. He has nearly a decade of experience as a Data Science executive, most recently as Lead Data Scientist for Product at Pluralsight and before that, Smarterer, where he led Data Science until the company's acquisition by Pluralsight in 2014. Prior to Smarterer, Eric was a government spy, and he built algorithms to predict geo-political events. He also spent a number of years developing swing-trading algorithms for hedge funds and was a Fellow at Temple University, where he pursued a PhD in statistics from 2010 to 2012, spending his summers at the USDA's statistics service writing models to get farmers to answer more surveys.
Dave Balter
Dave Balter is currently CEO of Flipside Crypto, which provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. Previously I led the Transactions (M&A and Partnerships) Team at Pluralsight, which I joined via the acquisition of Smarterer, a venture backed skills assessment startup I co-founded in 2010 and led as CEO since 2013. I founded BzzAgent in 2001, a social marketing company that accelerates word of mouth to drive sales. BzzAgent was acquired in 2011 by dunnhumby, a division of Tesco PLC. Post acquisition, I acted as Global Head of Investments for dunnhumby and served on the organization's Global Executive Team until late 2013, when I stepped down to focus full time on Smarterer. I founded dunnhumby Ventures during my tenure at dunnhumby. In 2016, I was named one of 30 Most Disruptive People in Boston Tech by Boston Magazine. In 2009 I was a Finalist (darn) for E&Y Entrepreneur of the year. In 2008, I was recognized as a Future Legend by the Ad Club. In 2007, Harvard University dubbed me one of Boston’s “Hottest Technology CEOs.” I co‐founded the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) in 2004, and authored two books on the subject, Grapevine and The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II.
Praveen Lulla
Praveen Lulla is the Chief Financial Officer of Delphi Digital. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Certificate from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1989.
David Balter
David Balter is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto. He is also an active investor as a Venture Partner at True Ventures.
Ayush Menon
Ayush Menon is the Founder and CEO of Katana. He was previously a Software Engineer at Delphi Digital, and he graduated from Harvard University.
Luke Saunders
Luke Saunders is CTO at Delphi Digital. He is responsible for all technical matters within the Delphi Digital team. His work involves identifying and implementing technical initiatives that contribute to the company's long-term goals and maximize value for the company's subscribers. These initiatives include data collection and analysis, the creation of dashboards to track key metrics, and supplementing the company's research with live data feeds and automation. During his 20-year career as a software developer, Luke has been involved with many tech and web startups, including being part of the founding team and lead developer of a project that scaled to over 3 million unique visitors per day and achieved a successful eight-figure exit. His interest in open source development led him to become a member of the core team of one of the leading (at the time) web frameworks. He also co-founded AmaZix, one of the premier crypto community management and advisory firms, which at its peak had over 150 staff and generated over seven figures in monthly revenue. Luke holds a degree in Computing and a Master's (Distinction) in Artificial Intelligence. With his broad background in business, technology, and token design, Luke bridges theory and practical implementation.