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Saaya joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities. Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects. Saaya attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. Her areas of interest include the creator economy, the future of work, enterprise education, Web3, and the future of commerce.
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David Ripley
Dave Ripley is the CEO at Kraken, a digital asset exchange company. Dave was previously a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group from September 2007 to January 2014. There, they advised Fortune 500 executives on key strategic priorities across multiple industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and consumer goods. Dave also managed and led direction for several concurrent teams of BCG consultants executing a diverse set of strategy projects. In July 2015, Dave founded Glidera, a company that provides a wallet-to-wallet bitcoin buying experience. Dave was with Techstars from July 2015 to October 2015. Prior to that, they were a product manager at Syclo from July 2000 to August 2005. Dave Ripley has an MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, with a focus in strategy, marketing, and technology management. Dave also has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Jonathan Chan
Jonathan is the Global Head of Business Development at Wintermute, a leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets. He has over 10 years of experience in trading, including derivatives and options with Citadel Securities and BlackEdge Capital, as well as investments with Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Jacob Kobler
Jacob Kobler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Consola. He was the Group Product Lead for two years and seven months, a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Icons - Consulting by Students, and Simon-Kucher & Partners.
Shimon Lazarov
As Global Head of Growth at OKX, Shimon Lazarov oversees the company's international user acquisition and retention. He is responsible for a range of marketing channels, including paid, organic, out of home, TV, and affiliates, among others. Prior to OKX, Shimon was Head of Growth at Kraken, CEO of LiveCoach, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BS in biology and business administration from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Suji Yan
Suji Yan is the founder and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. She dropped out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Computer Engineering Department to start a business. She was formerly an independent reporter for Qdaily & Caixin Media, and a former engineer of an autonomous driving company.
Jack Lu
Jack Lu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Magic Eden. He is of Chinese descent and is from Australia.
Nidhi Shanbhag
Nidhi Shanbhag is the head of partnership and BD at Uniswap and has worked at KKR and Sequoia Capital. She is a graduate of IIT Bombay.
Daejun Park
Daejun Park is a Senior Blockchain Security Engineer at a16z crypto, developing formal methods and tools for web3 security to help portfolio companies in particular and the web3 community in general to raise their security bar. Prior to joining a16z crypto, he was a Director of Formal Verification at Runtime Verification.Early in his career, he was a founding member of another tech startup Sparrow. Daejun received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University. His work on language-parametric program verification received the Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA’16.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.