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Tiny Xiong is the founder of UpchainDAO and co-founder of DeCert.me and OpenBuild.
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Dan Patterson
Dan Patterson is the General Partner of Sfermion and oversees the firm’s venture investment practice. In this capacity, he manages an investment team responsible for sourcing, diligencing, executing, and driving value to over 50 portfolio projects spanning the NFT and Web3 landscape. Prior to this role, Dan co-founded Polynexus Capital, a multi-strategy digital asset fund. Early in his career, Patterson was part of the investing team at a Hong Kong-based private equity firm, where he focused on growth equity investments, in the transportation and logistics sector. Dan graduated from Duke University with a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering, a minor in Finance, and has been a digital asset investor since 2014.
Ali Sheppard
Ali Sheppard is Head of operations at IDEO CoLab Ventures and a graduate of MIT.
Joanna Da Lu
Joanna Da Lu is the Partner and COO at Sfermion, an investment firm focused on immersive internet technologies. Prior to Sfermion, Joanna was an institutional hedge fund investor overseeing Dutch pension assets.
Alex Gedevani
Alex Gedevani is Investment Associate at Sfermion. Formerly Research Associate at Delphi Digital, Financial Analyst at Barclays, Community Analyst at Messari.
Richard Reyes
Richard Reyes is the head of community at Illuvium.io and previously worked as a Gas technician at SoCalGas.
Andrew Steinwold
Andrew Steinwold is the Managing Partner of Sfermion and a Partner at Polynexus Capital. Polynexus Capital is a multi-strategy digital asset fund that invests in distributed ledger technologies.
Yan Pritzker
Yan Pritzker, co-founder and CTO of Swan, previously served as CTO and Director of Infrastructure at Reverb. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Wang
Kevin Wang is co-founder of Khalani Labs, co-founder of Nervos, and previously co-founder of Launch School, a developer education platform. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Beijing Jiaotong University.
Alex Zinder
Alex Zinder is Executive vice President of Product at Ledger and previously worked at Nasdaq Ventures. He graduated from the University of Connecticut.
Christina Chen
Christina Chen is a CMO at Puffer Finance and SWFT Blockchain. He is a graduate of Hult International Business School and Draper University.
