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Mike Lempres is the former Chief Compliance Officer of Coinabse and currently serves as a board member and advisor to numerous companies.
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Surojit Chatterjee
Surojit Chatterjee is former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase. Surojit Chatterjee is joining Coinbase as our new Chief Product Officer after spending 11 years at Google. Coinbase is a product-led company, and Surojit will play a critical role in making the cryptoeconomy accessible to millions more people through Coinbase’s suite of products. Most recently, Surojit was Vice President of Product at Google, where he led Google Shopping, which helps people discover and compare products on Google. Before leading Google Shopping, Surojit was the Head of Product at Flipkart, a popular Indian e-commerce site, leading product management, user experience, product operations, and data science. Prior to Flipkart, Surojit was a founding member of Google’s mobile search ads product.
Riyaz Faizullabhoy
Riyaz Faizullabhoy is the Co-Founder at Bastion and formerly CTO at a16z Crypto. Previously, he was in Security Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook, a founding engineer at Anchorage, and a Security Engineer at Docker. Work hard and be kind.
Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Network State. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols, including Alchemy, Ava Labs, Bitcoin, Cameo, Chainlink, Clubhouse, Dapper Labs, Ethereum, Instadapp, NEAR Protocol, OnDeck, Opensea, Solana, Soylent, Superhuman, Synthesis, and Zora. Dr. Srinivasan is also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
Akhila Raju
Akhila Raju is the head of product at Tweed, previously a backend developer at Coinbase, and has also worked at various Fortune 500 companies including Google, Apple, SAP, and startups such as Waze and ConsenSys.
Nick Pacilio
Nick Pacilio, Communications at a16z crypto. Formerly, Senior Communications Manager at Twitter.
Hilary Kivitz
Hilary Kivitz is an angel investor. She works at a16z, Propel, and Ribbit Capital and has led a large number of financial technology investments. She received a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, a BPhil from Oxford University and a BA in philosophy from UC Berkeley.
Kevin Britz
Kevin Britz is the co-founder of Equilibria and Perennial. Previously, he worked as an advisor for DeFi at Coinbase and as a software engineer at Airbnb. He graduated from UC Berkeley.
Kathryn Haun
Katie Haun is the CEO and Founder of Haun Ventures, a $1.5 billion venture capital fund focused on web3. Previously, she was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, and co-chaired its three crypto funds. Additionally, she serves on the Coinbase board as its first independent director, where she chairs its Nomination and Governance Committee and is a member of its Compensation Committee. She has testified before both houses of Congress on the intersection of technology and regulation, and has taught at Stanford's GSB.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.