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Peiqian Li is co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance and was previously a senior software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu is the founder of Web3 Chief of Staff and was previously the chief of staff of Metamask. She graduated from Columbia University.
David Pekar
David Pekar, Co-Founder and CEO at Rare Bits. At Rare Bits (rarebits.io), we believe digital goods that live on the blockchain are fundamentally better for consumers. We’re building products that introduce these goods to mainstream audiences. Formerly, Product Manager, AdMob at Google; Co-Founder, Head of Product at Toro.
Michelle Latzer
Michelle Latzer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tweed. Previously, she worked in Google's tech infrastructure. Michelle Latzer graduated from Columbia University.
Zoe Weinberg
Zoe Weinberg is the Founder & managing partner of ex/ante. Previously, Zoe served on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and at Google AI. Prior she focused on national security, working in Mosul Iraq during the counter-ISIL operation in 2017. She was an investor at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and at Goldman Sachs. Her work on national security has been published in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs and she co-hosts the podcast Next in Foreign Policy. Zoe received her JD from Yale Law School, MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and BA from Harvard College.
Albert Chon
Albert Chon is Co-founder and CTO of Injective Protocol, building the future of decentralized exchange. He was formerly a Consultant at OpenZeppelin and a Software Engineer at Amazon. For fun, he enjoys painting, skiing, photography, and learning about crypto, ML, cybersecurity, math, finance, psychology, longevity, cool tech, and new ways of thinking.
Guillaume Poncin
Guillaume Poncin is the director of engineering at Alchemy, a Web3 developer platform. He previously served as the head of Web3 at Stripe. During his work at Stripe, Guillaume Poncin launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency channel and a cross-border payment product using stablecoins. Before joining Stripe, Poncin spent 12 years at Google as a technical lead for Google Books and Google Cloud. Guillaume Poncin graduated from Stanford University.
Avichal Garg
Avichal Garg is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Electric Capital. He was the Director of Product Management at Facebook, where he led the Local product team.
Shaaran Lakshminarayanan
Shaaran Lakshminarayanan is the Founder at Brine & Krypto. Presively he worked as Machine Learning Facilitator at Google. Shaaran graduated from Stanford and Vellore Institute of Technology.
Tariq Patanam
Tariq Patanam is the Co-founder at teablocks.Presively, he worked as Software Engineer at YouTube and Google.Tariq Patanam graduated from Stanford University.
Lian Zhu
Lian Zhu is the Co-founder and CEO of Aperture Finance, a DeFi platform for structured products. Prior to starting Aperture, he had served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Technical Program Manager at Netflix for 3 years respectively. Lian founded Internest Inc., a Natural Language Processing (NPL) focused startup that empowers multi-media marketing, localization, and publishing. He obtained his Executive MBA degree from UC Berkeley in 2022. An American Association of Chinese Writers member, he has published over 30 books, including the Chinese translation of Revival by Stephen King and the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series.
