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Vijay Ayyar is the VP of International Markets & Growth, leads international strategy and expansion for the business, aiming to establish our brand and presence globally. In his previous roles at Luno, another leading crypto wallet and exchange, he launched and led operations in 40+ markets globally while working closely with regulators and bank partners in a number of jurisdictions. He also led investments into multiple crypto, FinTech, and payment startups, and explored Web3 wallets and emerging market stablecoins with partners.
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Sumit Gupta
Sumit Gupta is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CoinDCX, India’s first crypto unicorn and cryptocurrency exchange. As a pioneer in India’s crypto industry, Sumit has been instrumental in bringing the emerging asset class to the consciousness of India’s mainstream. In his role, Sumit is responsible for the overall strategy and growth of CoinDCX, and is the driving force behind the company’s vision to onboard 50 million Indians into crypto. As co-chair of the Blockchain and Crypto Assets Council (BACC), a part of IAMAI, whose members are crypto exchanges operating in India, Sumit is an influential industry figure who advocates actively for better understanding and adoption of crypto. When Bitcoin began gaining traction in 2014, Sumit saw the potential of leveraging blockchain technology to enable financial inclusion and saw crypto’s potential to supercharge India’s growing innovation economy. Together with his team at CoinDCX, Sumit is committed to democratizing access to crypto for India, empowering Indians to manage their digital wealth in an increasingly digital and decentralized future. Sumit holds an Undergraduate and Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Susmit Lavania
Susmit Lavania is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Huddle01.
Yurii Kyparus
Yurii Kyparus is the Co-Founder of Wallchain. He has a background of Google and Meta.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
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.
Michelle Latzer
Michelle Latzer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tweed. Previously, she worked in Google's tech infrastructure. Michelle Latzer graduated from Columbia University.
Jackie Bona
Jackie Bona is the CEO of Valora, a mobile-first crypto wallet whose mission is to unlock access to financial opportunity for people around the world. She has spent the last 15 years of her career in product marketing and GTM leadership roles at various global technology companies such as Spotify, Twitter, and Google. Jackie is passionate about financial inclusion and believes that blockchain technology has the potential to provide new economic opportunities to those who would not typically have access.