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Ryan Gentry is the CEO of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. He previously served as Director of Business Development at Lightning Labs and was a Principal Analyst at Multicoin Capital. Prior to that, he worked as a Control Engineer at Intel Corporation, maintaining some of the world's most complex architectural systems and designing, installing, and maintaining central nervous systems. In 2016, he completed a dual master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering through Georgia Tech's distance learning program, shifting his focus to the Internet of Things while researching distributed systems and blockchain technology. Ultimately, in 2018, he left Intel to pursue cryptocurrency research full-time.
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Brian Smith
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John Robert Reed is the Partner at Multicoin Capital. At Multicoin, he oversees marketing strategy and corporate communications for the firm. Prior to Multicoin, he was a Senior Director at Jones-Dilworth, a boutique marketing consultancy. As a member of the founding team, he had the privilege of working closely with them for the better part of a decade.
Myles Snider
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Conner Fromknecht
Conner Fromknecht is Senior Software Engineer at OP Labs. Formerly, Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, Core Developer at Enigma, Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL.
Cathy Wu
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Elizabeth Stark
Elizabeth Stark is the founder of Lightning Labs, which develops Lightning, an open protocol layer for blockchain technology. She is also a Fellow at Coin Center, a cryptocurrency policy institute. Stark is an advisor to numerous AI and blockchain startups, and has previously taught at Stanford and Yale Universities. She holds a law degree from Harvard.
