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Brian Chan is currently the VP of Operations and Projects at Animoca Brands, taking charge of Web3 product development, strategic planning, and organization capability building. He has hands-on startup experience ranging from product design, game development, marketing, community management to commercial partnerships and fundraising. Brian brings over 10 years of experience in strategy, operations, and corporate finance. Prior to joining Animoca Brands, he was at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily advised financial institutions on digital transformation, growth strategy, and operations excellence. Prior to McKinsey, Brian was at DBS Bank and before that at Citibank, where he held multiple positions in the areas of debt capital markets and corporate banking. He obtained his undergraduate’s degree with a dual major in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Jim Chang
Jim Chang, co-founder of Cata Labs, is currently the Product Manager at Aave and Unstoppable Domains. He graduated from Northwestern University.
Liu Jiaming
Liu Jiaming is the chief commercial officer of Animoca Brands and the former chairman of Tencent WeSure. Liu Jiaming worked as an investment banking analyst at Citibank and a partner at McKinsey. He joined Tencent in 2016 and was responsible for establishing the Internet insurance business.
Evan Auyang
Evan Auyang is President of Animoca Brands and an independent non-executive director of Sun Hung Kai Limited. He was previously Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at GLI Group.
Sean Glennan
Sean Glennan is the Chief Financial Officer of Hut 8 Mining and was previously a Managing Director at Citibank. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
James Kow
James Kow is head of business development at Bitstamp. Before that he was an executive director at State Street Bank. He was also the head of foreign exchange e-commerce sales at Citibank and he worked at Bloomberg. He graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Thomas Scaria
Thomas Scaria is the Co-founder and CEO of Lore. He previously worked at Polychain Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Munaf Ali
Munaf Ali is the founder and CEO of Phoenix Group and was previously a vice president at Citigroup.
Yuri Mushkin
Yuri Mushkin is the Chief Risk Officer of OKX and will be responsible for leading the company’s global risk strategy and the enterprise risk management function independent of the business, reporting directly to the CEO and the Board of Directors. Yuri Mushkin started his career at Goldman Sachs and then joined McKinsey & Company as a senior risk expert and managed financial risks in McKinsey’s Investment Office (MIO).