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Yuki Yuminaga is a lead researcher at Distributed Capital and was previously a co-founder of Byto. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
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Max Branzburg
Max Branzburg is Head of consumer products at Coinbase and a graduate of Princeton University.
Brendan Playford
Brendan Playford is co-founder and CEO of Masa and previously was co-founder and CEO of Pngme and founder and CEO of Constellation.
Elroy Cheo
Zeeshan Feroz is Chief Product & Strategy Officer at MoonPay
Ivan Soto-Wright
Ivan Soto-Wright is a financial technology entrepreneur, investor, and early adopter of digital assets. He is Co-Founder and CEO of MoonPay, and Founder and General Partner of HODL, a venture capital fund and company builder.
Michael Toporek
Michael Toporek is the Co-CEO of Soluna Holdings and Managing General Partner at Brookstone Partners. He graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
Victor Faramond
Victor Faramond is the technical co-founder of MoonPay. He is an expert in cutting-edge web technologies, building front-end applications and backend systems at scale. Prior to this, Victor spent a year as a Software Engineer Intern at Apple.
Leo Mizuhara
Leo Mizuhara is the founder and CEO of Hashnote. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Duncan Hoffman
Duncan Hoffman is the chief revenue officer at Kiln and previously worked at Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Peter Knez
Peter Knez is the Chairman of Venom Foundation.Peter Knez is a former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock.Prior to that, Peter held positions with Lincoln Capital Management and Goldman Sachs, where he led quantitative research and fixed income. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Peter held professorship positions at Kellogg School of Management, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Peter completed his PhD work at The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, with a research focus on term structure models and asset allocation.
