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Rohit Wad is the current CTO at Binance. Prior to that, he worked as an Engineering Director at Facebook from May 2012 to October 2016. From there, Rohit helped grow Facebook's Seattle office from around 100 engineers to over 1000 in four years. At Google, he spearheaded a startup team of ten engineers to build a product that enabled people to compare and find the right home mortgages. As Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, his most recent role, he oversaw product and engineering for consumer communications: Skype, Groupme, and Microsoft Teams. Rohit Wad's educational career began when he completed his B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Rohit then went on to complete his MS in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
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Teck Chia
Venture arm of Binance. Formerly, Teck is the founder and CEO of Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, OpenAppMkt... Teck Chia was previously a partner at Binance Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, HashTrust, OpenAppMkt, and others. Previously, he was a product manager at Facebook. Teck graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer science.
Siddhartha Dutta
Siddhartha Dutta is CEO at Marlin Protocol, Marlin brings high-performance network infrastructure to modern decentralized networks. We are supported by Arrington XRP Capital, Binance Labs, Continue Capital, DHVC, Electric Capital, NGC etc. Formerly at Zilliqa and Microsoft.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Alex Skidanov
Alex Skidanov is the Co-Founder of NEAR. He previously worked for Microsoft and was the first engineer to join MemSQL. He was involved in writing and constructing the world's fastest distributed relational database, which has been used by Uber, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and Intel, among others.
Maika Isogawa
Maika Isogawa is the founder and CEO of Webacy, a venture-backed protective layer for self-custody. Prior to this, she was a cybersecurity engineer for Microsoft and was recognized as a "Forbes 30 Under 30" lister. She attended Stanford University and specialized in artificial intelligence.
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location tba is co-founder and engineer of Azuki, ex-Facebook engineer.
Sirri Perek
Sirri Perek is a professional software engineer specializing in iOS programming, Obj-C with multi-threading, memory management, and design patterns. He has experience in client-server applications, deep Facebook SDK integration and social flows, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, and Java. Sirri has held positions such as Senior Software Engineer at Facebook and Co-Founder at Cenoa. He has also studied at Bilkent University, graduating with a BSc in Computer Technology & Information Systems and Waterford Institute of Technology.