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Zhuowen (Zoe) Peng is a general Partner at Axia8 Ventures. She has invested in and incubated over 50 blockchain projects and has worked at the Bytom Foundation and bithumb Global Exchange.
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Katie Biber
Katie Biber is the Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance and policy functions. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Before Brex, Katie was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and she has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Additionally, Katie serves on the boards of directors of Anchorage, Code for America and Protocol Labs. She is a veteran of political campaigns, having served as General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from George Washington University.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet is the Founder and CEO, and the inventor of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). He is also the Founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Guy Wuollet
Guy Wuollet is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Guy focuses on infrastructure and application layer investments across crypto. He believes decentralized networks can better align incentives on the Internet and enable the future of commerce and communication. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on independent research in concert with Protocol Labs. His work focused on building decentralized networking protocols and upgrading Internet infrastructure. Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he rowed on the Varsity Crew team.
João Fiadeiro
João Fiadeiro is the Chief Product Officer of Catena Labs and previously worked at Jump Crypto and Protocol Labs. He holds a Master's degree in Internet Social Sciences from the University of Oxford.
Liz Chien
Liz Chien previously served as Global Head of Tax at Protocol Labs and Vice President of Global Tax at Ripple. Liz is the former Asia-Pacific Head of Tax for Google and was a Tax Director at Softbank Group International. Prior to Google, she was an attorney with the global law firm of Baker & McKenzie LLP in Palo Alto, California, where she advised technology companies on international tax planning and structuring. Liz received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University and her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Jesse Clayburgh
Upgrading the web with Protocol Labs, Filecoin and CoinList.
Grandma
Grandma is an NFT collector. He works at Trader Joe.
Erin Friez
Erin Friez is co-founder and COO of Digital Asset Research. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Law School and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
David Dias
David Dias is a Peer-to-Peer Software Engineer at Protocol Labs, creating IPFS and Filecoin. He holds an M.Sc. in Network Engineering and is a Lecturer at T¨¦cnico Lisboa
Matthew Mizbani
Matthew Mizbani is a partner at Paradigm and was previously an investor at Coatue Management. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
