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Tyler Spalding is currently a Co-Founder at Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. He has been actively involved in cryptocurrencies since 2011. Tyler was formerly the Chief Technology Officer at Raise, the world's largest gift card marketplace with over $1 billion in sales and $150 million in venture funding. He has over 20 years of technology experience, has founded and sold three software companies, and is an active seed-stage investor in 25+ startups. Tyler is the author of more than 50 technology patents, and was a faculty member at two universities for aerospace engineering. He is also a proud former engineer for the United Space Alliance, the United States Air Force, the NASA Mars Crew Module, and the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Tyler has been a speaker at various retail, payments, and blockchain events such as Money 20/20, Consensus, ShopTalk, Intersect Retail, Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, and the E-Commerce Conference and Exposition (International Keynote). His specialties include cryptocurrency, blockchain, payments, anti-fraud systems, smart contracts, mobile product development, retail recommendation systems, and Scotch whisky.
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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.
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.
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.
Michael Li
Michael Li is the Advisor of AIGC Chain. Previously, he worked as Vice President of Data at Coinbase. Michael Li graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor's degree, and obtained a Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fortress Trust Company. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Patrick Hillmann
Patrick Hillmann is the former chief strategy officer of Binance, where he leads Binance’s global communications and public affairs department, and his remit also includes coordinating with global regulators in conjunction with Binance’s head of compliance and security. Prior to joining Binance, Patrick was the Global Head of Innovation in Edelman's Crisis and Risk practice, where he led the firm's cybersecurity and anti-disinformation offerings. Prior to joining Edelman, Patrick held senior government affairs and public affairs positions at General Electric (GE) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
Mo Dong
Mo Dong is the Venture Partner at IOSG Ventures. He also is the Co-Founder at Celer Network. Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design and teaches full-stack smart contract courses.
Kaimin H.
Kaimin H. is Chief Commercial Officer at Bitmart and Partner at Cipholio Ventures and EMURGO.