Michael Daffey
Chairman at Galaxy
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Michael Daffey is Chairman of PubCo and Senior Advisor to Galaxy Digital, and has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector at Goldman Sachs. He was most recently Partner, Chairman of the Global Markets Division, and a Member of the Management Committee.
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Luka Jankovic
Luka Jankovic is HHead of Product at Galaxy Digital LP. Ex-GoldmanSachs, a NYC-based multi-strategy cryptocurrency and blockchain investment firm with Mike Novogratz. Prior to joining Galaxy, Luka worked at Goldman Sachs in the Hedge Fund Strategies group between 2016 and 2017. He spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 at Goldman Sachs working in private equity and hedge fund groups. Luka graduated Summa Cum Laude in three years from Cornell University in 2015 where he majored in Applied Economics & Management in the Charles H. Dyson School with a triple concentration. In 2016, he completed his Master's degree at Cornell University focusing on behavioral finance.
Richard Kim
Richard Kim is General Partner at Galaxy Interactive. Richard’s experience spans investing, trading, law, finance, management and strategy. He joined Galaxy as COO in May 2018, before joining Galaxy Interactive in Dec 2018. Prior to Galaxy, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18. From 2012-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, and prior to that was the COO of J.P. Morgan’s electronic trading franchise for FX/EM. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a derivatives and regulation attorney at J.P. Morgan. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group. Richard also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.
Michael Novogratz
Michael Novogratz is currently an investor and CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, which invests in emerging blockchain startups. Previously, he was a principal and board member of Fortress Investment Group LLC, and the Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund.
Danielle Johnson
Danielle Johnson is the Head of Global Distribution & Private Capital Markets at Galaxy Digital. Presively she worked at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
Baptiste Cota
Baptiste Cota is the Founding Partner at LeadBlock Partners.
Mothusi Majinda
Mothusi Majinda is the Chief Technology Officer of Bullish and was previously Director of Platform Engineering at BC Group, Assistant Vice President at Credit Suisse, and Analyst at JPMorgan Chase. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
David Schwed
David Schwed is the Chief Operating Officer of Halborn and has previously served as the Global Head of Digital Asset Technology at Bank of New York Mellon.
Rob Hadick
Rob Hadick is a partner at Dragonfly, having previously held positions at GoldenTree, Goldman Sachs, and others.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.
Will Nuelle
Will Nuelle is a General Partner at Galaxy Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in protocol layer infrastructure, DeFi applications, and software products. He began his career at Galaxy in Research, where he developed quantitative risk software for trading. Prior to Galaxy, he interned at FOAM and built incentive simulations for the Ethereum protocol. He holds B.S. degrees from Stanford University in Mathematics and Architecture. Furthermore, he is a Board Member for Skolem Technologies and has led more than 13 investments for Galaxy.