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Alexander Walterspiel is a partner and head of trading at Paradigm and was previously a partner and head trader at Indaba Capital Management. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut Business School.
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Nathan Apsel
Nathan Apsel is the Chief Financial Officer at Maveron. Prior to joining Maveron, he was the Chief Financial Officer at 8VC and Paradigm. Before that, he was a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he was part of the Asset Management Practice. Nathan holds a Master of Accounting and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Oregon.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon works in legal and operations at Tempo, and previously served as general counsel for Paradigm and OpenSea. She also previously worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Dan Robinson
Dan Robinson is a General Partner and the Head of Research at Paradigm, focused on crypto investments and research into open-source protocols. Previously, Dan was a protocol researcher at Interstellar. Before Interstellar, Dan practiced as a litigation attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter is the Policy Director at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he was the Director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Allison Herren Lee. Justin also served as Chief Policy Advisor and Special Counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and General Counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey. He has also worked as a consultant in private practice, focusing on fintech and smaller technology companies. To begin his career, Justin was a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Jordan Qualls
Jordan Qualls is currently the CFO at Paradigm.
Lindsay Slocum
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Storm Slivkoff
Storm Slivkoff is a Research Partner at Paradigm. He uses data science and data engineering to analyze crypto systems and build crypto data infrastructure. Storm is passionate about open source software and open data standards. He has published open-source tools for collecting and analyzing data from many crypto protocols. Prior to Paradigm, Storm was a data specialist at Fei Labs. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley doing neuroscience research.
Ricardo de Arruda
Ricardo de Arruda is a Research Partner at Paradigm. Previously, he was a data scientist and engineer at Allium, focused on blockchain data infrastructure, token incentive design, and detecting inorganic activity. Before that, Ricardo was a quantitative developer at macro-focused investment funds. He studied computer engineering and economics before dropping out of university.
Matt Huang
Matt Huang is the co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm, CEO of Tempo, and a member of the Stripe board of directors. Previously, Matt was a partner at Sequoia Capital, focusing on early-stage venture capital, including leading the firm's cryptocurrency efforts. Matt was the founder and CEO of Hotspots, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. He is also an angel investor in companies such as ByteDance and Instacart. He purchased his first Bitcoin from MtGox in 2012. Matt holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from MIT.
