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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.
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Nicolas Maurice
Nicolas Maurice is the Co-Founder & CTO at Alluvial. Formerly Tech Lead at ConsenSys, a Full Stack Software Engineer & Blockchain expert passionate about Ethereum. He spends my time designing & building large scale decentralized platforms.
Michael Toporek
Michael Toporek is the Co-CEO of Soluna Holdings and Managing General Partner at Brookstone Partners. He graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
Peter Knez
Peter Knez is the Chairman of Venom Foundation.Peter Knez is a former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock.Prior to that, Peter held positions with Lincoln Capital Management and Goldman Sachs, where he led quantitative research and fixed income. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Peter held professorship positions at Kellogg School of Management, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Peter completed his PhD work at The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, with a research focus on term structure models and asset allocation.
Clayton Menzel
Clayton Menzel is the Director of Protocol Strategy at Figment. He is always learning about blockchain and is often confused, entertained, and inspired by the people he meets.
Yuan Xia
Yuan Xia is the Founder & CEO of Secure3. Previously, he worked for GGV Capital, Airbnb, and Facebook. He is also the Founding Director & CSO of CertiK. He graduated from Purdue University and Yale University.
Arnoldo Concepción
Arnoldo Concepci¨®n is the CEO of Gryfyn and the COO of Animoca Brands. He graduated from The University of Chicago
Ainsley Sutherland
Ainsley Sutherland is Product at DerivaDEX. Formerly Product & Partnership Strategy at Enigma MPC. She worked on product development and user research at Enigma, across protocol and application products. She collaborates closely with our engineering team and partners to define feature requirements and feasibility. She advocates for users, current and future, and communicate research both technically and for a broad audience. Previously: DesignX, BuzzFeed Open Lab, ConsenSys, MIT, WHPK.
Gavin Birch
Blockchain Protocol Analyst and Governance at Figment Networks.
Jiang Xuxian
Jiang Xuxian is the founder of PeckShield, the Chief Scientist of 360, and a professor at the University of North Carolina.
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.