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Ali Shadle is the Vice President of Operations at Chia Network. Prior to Chia, Ali was an early product manager at the unicorn Honey that recently sold to PayPal for $4B. During her 10+ years in tech she also conducted research under Evan Reas and Dr. Anders Ericsson.
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Paul Ford
Paul Ford served as Vice President of Developer Relations at Chia and Chief Marketing Officer of Storj Labs. Previously, he was the head of marketing for IBM Cloud (formerly SoftLayer) and vice president of SendGrid, where he promoted the development of developer relations and commercial applications.
Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent, the most widely used protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing over the internet. He left BitTorrent in August 2017 to found Chia Network, where he has served as Chairman and CTO since its founding, and has been CEO since June 2019. Bram is one of the world's top-selling puzzle designers.
Gene Hoffman
Gene Hoffman is CEO & President of Chia.net. Formerly CEO & co-founder Vindicia, eMusic, PGP, PrivNet. Defender of the Bill of Rights. UNC Basketball & Darkside Ultimate Alum. Recognized by the San Francisco Business Times with the “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award” in 2012, Gene has deep experience with building companies that disrupt markets. Prior to Vindicia, Gene co-founded eMusic in January 1998 and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. As head of eMusic, Gene was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a member of the July 1999 E-Gang, and named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in technology in Upside Magazine’s November 2000 Elite 100. Gene led the acquisition of eMusic by Vivendi/Universal in June 2001. Before founding eMusic Gene was Director of Business Development and Director of Interactive Marketing of Pretty Good Privacy. Gene joined Pretty Good Privacy after it acquired PrivNet, Inc., an Internet privacy software company, where he was co-founder, Director and Executive Vice President.
Brian Henhsi
Brian Henhsi is Head of Strategy at Movement Labs, having previously held positions at Sui/Mysten Labs and Chia. He graduated from Tsinghua University.