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Brandon Potts is the Principal of Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has experience in the startup and technology industry, having previously served as the Chief of Staff at Startup Sandbox, a bioscience incubator, and the Head of Business Development at AnChain.AI, a blockchain security and compliance solution company. Potts has also worked as a self-employed crypto researcher and as an Associate Project Manager at Holland Partner Group, where he led engineering teams and successfully delivered projects worth over $125M.
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Alec Taggart
Alec Taggart is a professional in the fields of venture capital, product development, and investing. He served as a Venture Partner at Mirana Ventures and Founding Partner at Windranger Labs, where he is responsible for product strategy, partnerships, and incubation. Prior to this, Taggart worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Framework Ventures and held various leadership roles in the fintech industry, including at Prosper Marketplace and EY. He has a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
Mike Neuder
Mike Neuder is a Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and previously a software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science and engineering from Harvard University.
Bill Gleim
William Gleim (Bill) is the Chief Technology Officer of Equideum Health and previously worked at ConsenSys and Ripple. Previously, he created the iot Black Hat Group at Google.
Kyle Weiss
Kyle Weiss is the co-founder and CEO of Passport, previously the Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer and executive Director of Gitcoin, and the co-founder of Colorado.
Scott Eaton
Scott Eaton is the CEO of Carbonplace. He graduated from the University of Colorado. He was the CEO of Nivaura and a partner of Konsortium Capital Partners. Educated as a lawyer, but with training in finance through a 25+ year career in financial services, primarily in structured credit trading, Scott has demonstrated an ability to quickly learn and adapt to changing situations.
Cooper Turley
Cooper Turley is the Advisor at Audius, Contributing Writer at The Defiant, Editor at DeFi Rate, angel investor in Coop Records.
Chao Ma
Chao Ma currently works on privacy and scaling at the Ethereum Foundation. He was the CTO at Deeper Network, where he oversees the design and implementation of the Deeper public chain. Prior to this role, he worked as a machine learning scientist at Amazon. In 2017, he shifted his focus to researching blockchain networks and consensus algorithms, and developed a decentralized storage system from scratch. In 2018, he played a key role in the core development of the Harmony public chain and served as a protocol architect.
Trista Kelley
Trista Kelley is editor in chief of DLNews and previously worked at Bloomberg. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder.
Sam Blackshear
Sam Blackshear is the co-founder and CTO of Sui/Mysten Labs, and he was previously the lead engineer at Novi Financial.
Yang Liu
Yang Liu is a partner at Spark Digital Capital and previously worked as a hardware engineer at Seagate. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder.