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Zev Shimko, co-founder, chief operating officer at Avanti Financial Group. Mr. Shimko will be joining Avanti full-time in April. He is currently a director at Figure, focusing on its enterprise blockchain efforts, and before that he headed corporate development at SALT, a crypto-backed lender. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in global capital markets, where he was promoted as part of its STAR program and where he and Ms. Long worked together. Mr. Shimko holds a B.S. from Northeastern University.
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Tania Tse
Tania is the co-founder of Sleek. She is an active contributor to various ETH/SOL NFT communities, including CloneX and MonkeDAO. She is also passionate about onboarding young female talent into Web3, and has hosted educational workshops with the Women's Foundation in Hong Kong. Before embarking on her venture in Web3, she was an associate in the Technology Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc in Politics and Economics.
Caitlin Long
Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Custodia, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, and responsible for the recent groundbreaking crypto-friendly legislation in Wyoming. She is a Harvard Law School graduate and a 22-year Wall Street veteran, and is often asked to provide expert commentary on the SEC. Institutional Investor named her one of the most influential people in pensions from 2013 to 2015.
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.
Abbey Titcomb
Abbey Titcomb is Head of Community & Governance at Radicle. Former Associate at UnderscoreVC. Researching crypto-economic models and system designs for commons-based peer production.
Dmitry Lapidus
Dmitry Lapidus is an investor at CoinFund and previously an investor at Dragonfly. He holds a BA in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Karl-Martin Ahrend
Karl-Martin Ahrend is the Co-Founder of Web3 Studios. Focusing on M&A and capital raising in the Web3 space.
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.
Jack Tao
Jack Tao is the founder and CEO of Phemex. He participated in the early development of Bybit and served as a senior executive at Morgan Stanley for many years.