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Ron Bernstein was CEO of Paradex before it was acquired by Coinbase. Fascinated with the convergence of the internet, peer-to-peer trading, sports betting and prediction markets, he founded Intrade in 2000, and Tradesports in 2003. Intrade went on become the world’s leading prediction marketplace until the platform's closure in 2015. Ron became fascinated by "Blockchain" in 2014 and became an advisor to Augur.net in 2015 (a prediction market protocol built on top of the Ethereum blockchain). Next steps were forming Augment Partners, a technology company working to build sound financial business models in the growing world of decentralized trading. The development of digital currencies, more blockchains and decentralized software systems continues to fuel his interest in trading, prediction markets, and token economies, and how they may be applied in the real world to benefit everyday life. AugmentPartners' first commercial product release was a peer to peer, non-custodial erc20 token exchange called Paradex .
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Spencer Yang
Spencer Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Gomu.co, an NFT infrastructure company with products such as NFT Hub, NFT APIs, and Collection.xyz. He is also the Venture Partner of Press Start Capital, a fund focused on Web3, gaming, and entertainment. Previously, Spencer worked on product at Coinbase, where he was responsible for retail derivatives, DEX, securities, and wallets. He also led growth, revenue, and operations at CoinMarketCap, and navigated the company's acquisition by Binance. Spencer has founded two companies that were acquired: Hashtag Capital and KeyReply. He is an angel investor and has a background in product management, growth, and operations.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Thomas Scaria
Thomas Scaria is the Co-founder and CEO of Lore. He previously worked at Polychain Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Allen Ng
Allen Ng is the founder and CEO of EVG, and the co-founder of Kikitrade, a Crypto social investment platform.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Tina Shu
Tina Shu is a Co-Founder at Weave6. She has served as an advisor for various trading platforms and is the founder of Arche Capital, a financial technology company specializing in encrypted market derivatives. Shu holds a degree from the University of Southern California.
Natalia Mazzuchelli
Natalia is the former Global Head of Partner Managemen at Immutable and is responsible for building the strategy to drive value across these relationships. Additionally, she is on the board of Team4Tech, a non-profit accelerator with the aim of improving the quality of education for under-resourced learners through technology and training. Natalia is a seasoned professional with 15+ years of sales, marketing, and partnership experience. Natalia recently joined Immutable from Coinbase, where she led the NFT Success Team and was responsible for building a team to provide a white-glove experience to some of the most prominent NFT creators in the space. In her past experience at Meta, as the Head of Global Vertical Solutions, she led a cross-functional team and managed product, sales, creative, measurement, and research activities to optimize expansion across the company's largest vertical.
Nihar Neelakanti
Nihar Neelakanti is the Co-founder and CEO of Ecosapiens. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Robbie Heeger
Robbie Heeger is President & CEO at Endaoment. Formerly, Manager - Production Operations, Technical Producer at Apple.
Alesia Haas
Alesia Haas is the Chief Financial Officer of Coinbase.