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Benjamin Roth is the Co-founder and CEO of Auros. He forged his early career at Optiver in Sydney and Chicago, running various trading books in New York and Hong Kong. Subsequently, he established Auros as the firm's Head of Trading. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance from UNSW.
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Sasha MacKinnon
Sasha MacKinnon is the founder of Mino Games. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, founded Bit Battalion, and worked as a Technical Assistant to the CEO at Zynga.
Marcus Lim
Marcus Lim is the founder and CEO of PEXX and was previously the founder and CEO of Zipmex. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Jake Fitzgerald
Jake Fitzgerald is the co-founder and Head of Product at Lyra, having previously worked at AirTree Ventures and Meta. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and New York University in the United States.
William Wu
William Wu is the Co-CEO of Catheon Gaming. Previously, he was an investment professional at Oaktree Capital Management in Hong Kong, focusing on special situations and distressed private equity opportunities, as well as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Wilson Ho
Wilson Ho is Head of Operations at HashKey Group and previously was Vice President of Operations at Kenetic Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.
Vincent Shang
Vincent Shang is a Partner at AC Capital where he has extensive experience in project incubation, community marketing and business development and compliance. Vincent Shang graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Chris Lee
Chris Lee is co-founder and partner of TKX Capital and Merkle3s Capital. He has served as partner of Black Hole Capital Group, CFO of Huobi, and CEO of OKX.
Ryan Silva
Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
Kevin Lu
Kevin Lu is the co-founder and CEO of Friendzone and the co-founder of Scalene. Kevin Lu, who also previously served as Head of Growth for Band Protocol, has over 6 years of experience in the Web3 space. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.