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Nick Chong is a crypto-native investor focused on decentralized finance. Nick Chong currently operate independently, supporting the best founders in the space by helping to restructure cap tables, refine token economics, and formulate product and marketing strategies as an angel and advisor. I also support ParaFi Capital, a digital asset manager, in sourcing primary market opportunities.
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Ben Forman
Benjamin Forman is the Founder and Managing Partner of ParaFi Capital. Prior to founding ParaFi in 2018, he spent 10 years at leading alternative investment managers, including KKR and TPG. While at KKR, he served as a Director in the Credit business, investing across a variety of industry sectors and strategies, including distressed special situations, private credit, and opportunistic and liquid credit. Before KKR, he served as a Vice President with TPG's former credit business, Sixth Street Partners, as one of the first investment professionals to join the platform. Earlier in his career, he worked in private equity at Littlejohn & Company and investment banking at Rothschild & Co. He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Santiago R Santos
Santiago Roel Santos is Angel investor focusing on tech and healthcare, Founder of EON Capital, formerly Crypto-asset investing at ParaFi Capital, Founder of Roca Capital. Santiago became involved in Bitcoin in 2013 after realizing its potential to disrupt the remittance industry and to democratize the access to information and services. Beyond disrupting legacy businesses, he is most excited about the rise of new forms of decentralized models powered by blockchains. Prior to Roca, Santiago worked at J.P. Morgan in their investment banking financial sponsors group and then at Sageview Capital investing and helping internet and software companies scale. He then was technical advisor to the founders of Elysium Health, a leading consumer health company shifting the paradigm of drug discovery. He was one of the youngest recipients of the J.P. Morgan Launching Leaders Scholarship and admitted to their investment banking program as a freshman. Santiago earned a BA in Economics magna cum laude from Boston University in 3 years.
Kevin Yedid-Botton
Kevin Yedid-Botton is a Financial Markets expert at ParaFi Capital. Previously, he was a Quant and Strategic Investments PM. From 2015 to 2018, he was the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Tenzar Technologies, a computing company based in San Diego, CA. Professional Expertise: Technology, Financial Markets, and Investment Management.
Yarco Hayduk
Yarco Hayduk is the Partner at Pragma Ventures . Formerly Senior Blockchain Engineer at Covalent, Blockchain Researcher at Hex Capital. Yarco has in-depth understanding of innovative technologies and trends in the cryptocurrency space. His academic experience includes working as a post-doc at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the area of Distributed Systems and Scalable Data Processing. He completed his PhD program at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, which focused on Distributed Systems, Concurrency and Transactional Memory. During his PhD studies, Yarco published research papers in the area of concurrent processing of book orders, and has deep understanding of exchange matching engines.
