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Thomas Klocanas is the General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.
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Avery Erwin
Avery Erwin is currently the Head of Content at Chainlink and previously served as the Head of Content at ConsenSys, specifically responsible for ConsenSys Media and others.
Lex Sokolin
Lex is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Generative Ventures. He also is the Founder at Fintech Blueprint. Presively, he worked as Chief Economist at ConsenSys. Lex is a contributor of thought leadership to the WSJ, Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Economist, CNBC, Reuters, American Banker, ThinkAdvisor, and Investment News, among others. He has spoken on the future of technology at conferences including Money2020, LendIt, Consensus, Vivatech, Schwab Impact, In|Vest, T3 Enterprise Edition, Financial Planning Association, and many others. Prior to NestEgg, Lex held a variety of roles in investment management and banking at Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. He holds a JD/MBA from Columbia University, a B.A. in Economics and Law from Amherst College, and Certificates in International Politics and New Media.
Laura Shin
Laura Shin is the founder and CEO of Unchained and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022). During the course of writing her book, she and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the biggest whodunnit in crypto — the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum. She is now working on a book about the collapse of FTX. Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had 25 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
Yi Tang
Tang Yi serves as the Executive Director of Qiming Venture Partners, focusing on investments in the Web3 field. He is responsible for projects such as InfStones, imToken, and Matrixport. Prior to this, Previously, he served as the head of ConsenSys China. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech and a bachelor's degree in electronic information engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology.
Mike Goldin
Mike Goldin is Senior Software Engineer at Summer and formerly Senior Software Engineer at ConsenSys.
Winnie Lau
Winnie Lau is the Principal at BlockTower. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University Business School.
Terry Rossi
Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Jason
Jason is the Chief Financial Officer at Nakamoto Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He previously served as the Finance Director at a leading startup technology company.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
