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Michael Mosier is the Partner at ex/ante. Michael co-founded Arktouros, a legal boutique dedicated to emergent technology and civil society. He has twice been the first in-house counsel at tech companies: Espresso Systems, building configurable private computation and decentralized sequencing, and Chainalysis, developing blockchain analytics. In public service, Michael served as Acting Director (Deputy Director & Digital Innovation Officer) of the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN, driving initiatives on privacy and digital identity to improve the resilience and opportunity of the financial system. He also was Counselor (cybersecurity & emerging technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, a Director at the White House National Security Council, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Zhenfei Zhang
Zhenfei Zhang is an engineer at Scroll and a researcher at Ethereum Foundation. He was previously the co-founder and chief technology officer of Manta Network. He has extensive experience in the field of cryptography and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers on cryptography.
Philip Gradwell
Philip Gradwell is Chief Economist at Chainalysis. I lead data-driven research on blockchain economics at Chainalysis. Previously, I led a team of economic consultants in energy and climate change at Vivid Economics, where I helped build the firm from start-up to 40 people.
Fernando Krell
Fernando Krell is the VP Engineering at Espresso Systems. He graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Gus Gutoski
Gus Gutoski is a cryptography engineer at Espresso Systems and is passionate about cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and anything blockchain. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis. Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Blockchain Intelligence Platform powers our compliance and investigation software for some of the world's leading institutions. With offices in New York City, Washington D.C., and Copenhagen, Chainalysis is global and backed by Benchmark and other renowned venture capital firms.
Ben Fisch
Ben Fisch is the Co-founder and CEO of Espresso Systems. He is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University and a Teaching Assistant at Yale University.
Charles Lu
Charles Lu is the Co-Founder of Espresso Systems. He previously worked at Binance Labs. Charles Lu has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.
Binyi Chen
Binyi Chen is Chief Cryptozoologist at Espresso Systems and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Pratima Arora
Pratima Arora is Chainalysis' Chief Product Officer. She is a revenue-generating, product-strategy, tech-loving mastermind who is delivering Chainalysis' blockchain data platform to customers globally. A self-proclaimed geek, she loves solving the toughest customer problems with simple and intuitive solutions. Pratima has worked with Salesforce and Atlassian and sits on the board of DigitalOcean.
Jill Gunter
Jill Carlson Gunter is the Chief Strategy Officer at Espresso Systems and formerly Principal at Slow Ventures; Co-Founder of Open Money Initiative; Advisor at O(1) Labs, Algorand, UMA.