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Valentine Samko is the Chief Technology Officer of Wintermute. Before joining Wintermute, Valentine was working on a low latency trading platform at XTX, a leading global quantitative trading firm. Valentine holds a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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Rene Reinsberg
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's layer-1 blockchain is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that all share a common mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (aquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, TechnoServe and General Catalyst. He holds graduate degrees from Germany's WHU and MIT.
SJ Oh
Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.
Ronson Chau
Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Chiam Tat Ang
Chiam Tat Ang is the Head of Treasury at Matrixport. Presively he worked at Standard Chartered Bank, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Chiam graduated from Graduated from Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Matthieu Jobbé-Duval
Matt Jobbe Duval is co-founder of Coinwatch and former head of financial products at Dapper Labs.
Jan-Philip Grabs
Jan-Philip is a founding partner at web3 Studios, an investment banking firm facilitating mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and secondary transactions in the web3 & digital assets space. Previously, JP was a private equity investor at Blackstone and gained experience at Boston Consulting Group and Barclays Investment Bank. He earned his M.A. in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Yoann Turpin
Yoann Turpin is Co-Founder & Head Of Business Development at Wintermute. After more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building a few businesses, I decided to join Evgeny and Harro to co-found Wintermute Trading, an algorithmic liquidity provider in the crypto space. We are now 3 years old , have 15 staff, 3 investment rounds under our belts - proudly backed by Lightspeed, Blockchain.com and a cool bunch of angels. We are very much striving for a culture of excellence and fair practices in this maturing space. I currently lead our business development, focused on maximising our access to flow and always trying to add value to anyone I interact with. In general, I am passionate about entrepreneurship, technology and finance and have invested in a good few start-ups (near 30 directly and 60 indirectly).
Luke Li
Luke Li is the Head of Markets at Amber Group. Previously, Luke was a Credit Strat, FID Department at Morgan Stanley. Luke holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the Columbia University.
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.