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Aklil Ibssa is Director of Corporate Development and venture capital at Coinbase and previously was a product manager at LinkedIn. He graduated from Santa Clara University.
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Emilie Choi
Emilie Choi is President and Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase. She was formerly Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Business Operations, and Strategy at Coinbase. She is also a board member of both public and private companies, as well as an angel investor. Her specialties include consumer internet, SaaS, crypto, M&A, venture investments, corporate strategy, business operations, business development, data analytics, and international.
Jamie Lottering
Jamie Lottering is Technical Lead at RabbitHole and was previously a senior Software engineer at Coinbase.
Michael Li
Michael Li is the Advisor of AIGC Chain. Previously, he worked as Vice President of Data at Coinbase. Michael Li graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor's degree, and obtained a Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Boris Ilyevsky
Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
Max Galka
Max Galka is the founder and CEO of Elementus. Prior to founding Elementus, he held various positions in the data science and finance industries, including being an adjunct lecturer in data science at the University of Pennsylvania, a derivatives trader at both Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and a co-founder of Revaluate, a real estate data startup.
Yu Hu
Yu Hu is the Founder and CEO of Kaito AI. He is building an AI-powered search engine for digital assets. He graduated from the University of Cambridge.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is the founder of Aevo and previously worked in software development at Coinbase/NumerAI. He studied computer science at Cornell University, but dropped out after two years.