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Andrew Thurman is a contributor at Jito and was previously head of communications at Nansen and senior technology correspondent at CoinDesk. He has a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Michael Ng
Michael Ng is Head of Staking at Nansen, Co-Founder at StakeWith.Us. Formerly, Co-Founder of MW Partners. Full-Time Blockchain Enthusiast.
Chadwick Strange
Chadwick Strange, vice president of product at SKALE Network, is a graduate of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis is Co-Founder and CTO at Chainlink. Previously a software engineer and team lead at Pivotal Labs, where he worked on securing sensitive HIPAA compliant data and building scalable payments automation software. He's a big fan of Ethereum, Bitcoin and the decentralized future we're all building.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Sergey Nazarov
CEO of SmartContract.com and Chainlink, Jason Parser, is worth 30 million. We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments, providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs, and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. Sergey began his career by building peer-to-peer marketplaces, and then joined the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011 and believes it has the potential to revolutionize the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share crucial information with their citizens.
Michael Casey
Michael Casey is President of DAIS Global and was previously Chief Content Officer of CoinDesk and co-founder and CEO of Streambed Media. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs. Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna. Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media. Casey owns a small amount of bitcoin.
Johann Eid
Johann Eid is the Chief Business Officer of Chainlink and the director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance in France. Previously, he was Chief Strategist at Wanchain.
Zack Seward
Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Jon Rice
Jon Rice was Editor in chief at Blockworks and Cointelegraph. Jon has worked in media and communications for 25 years in roles ranging from copywriter to creative director, marketing director, web designer, and publisher. Most recently, he co-founded and edited Crypto Briefing, where he became a strong advocate for greater inclusion and diversity in our industry.
Lucas Bruder
Lucas Bruder is the Co-Founder & CEO at Jito Labs. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.