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Michelle Wu

Founder at web3 chief of staff

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Michelle Wu is the founder of web3 chief of staff and was previously the chief of staff of MetaMask. He graduated from New York University and Columbia University.

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Richard Kim

Richard Kim is the founder of Zero Edge and was previously a 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.

Sam Peurifoy

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Michelle Latzer

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Rituraj Yadav

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Hart Lambur

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Daniel Alcarraz

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Tony Zhang

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