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Steven Willinger is the Partner of Blockchain Builders Fund. Presively he was Ventures Lead at Coinbase. Product Management at Blockstream. GTM at Google. Steven Willinger graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Erik Svenson
Erik Svenson is the co-founder, President, and CFO of Blockstream. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading strategies, operations, and fundraising in his previous roles. He spent 10 years in the traditional finance industry in leading roles, followed by another decade as a co-founder and consultant for rapidly growing technology startups. Erik has a BA from Stanford and is a former CFA charterholder.
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.
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.
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 founder of Electric Capital. He was the Director of Product Management at Facebook, where he led the Local product team.
Pieter Wuille
Peter Wuille is a Bitcoin Core developer and the co-founder of Blockstream. He is ranked second in terms of commits to Bitcoin Core and is responsible for important improvements to Bitcoin such as BIP 66, libsecp256k1, and Segregated Witness. His programming languages include C++, C, Perl, Java, Bash, (PG)SQL, Haskell, OCaml, and PHP. He is also skilled in system administration, including Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and LDAP. His specialties include programming languages, compilers, and cryptography.
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.
Nemil Dalal
Nemil Dalal is Product Manager at Coinbase, Writer, coder, hacker. CryptoFinance. Seasoned financial services executive and product manager with strong technical expertise and management experience with leading American financial institutions. Focus on Bitcoin, blockchain, and Ethereum smart contracts. Y Combinator alum, Stanford MBA and electrical engineer. Early stage venture investments in cryptocurrency startups. Blog on crypto, software engineering, and media topics at nemil.com.
Surojit Chatterjee
Surojit Chatterjee is former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase. Surojit Chatterjee is joining Coinbase as our new Chief Product Officer after spending 11 years at Google. Coinbase is a product-led company, and Surojit will play a critical role in making the cryptoeconomy accessible to millions more people through Coinbase’s suite of products. Most recently, Surojit was Vice President of Product at Google, where he led Google Shopping, which helps people discover and compare products on Google. Before leading Google Shopping, Surojit was the Head of Product at Flipkart, a popular Indian e-commerce site, leading product management, user experience, product operations, and data science. Prior to Flipkart, Surojit was a founding member of Google’s mobile search ads product.
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.