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Charles Hoskinson is a technology entrepreneur and mathematician based in Colorado. He studied analytic number theory at Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder before getting into cryptography through industry exposure. He has founded three cryptocurrency-related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and has held various positions in the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013. Currently, his projects are aimed at educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization, and making cryptographic tools more accessible to the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design, and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that was launched in September 2017.
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Edwin Liu
Edwin Liu is the Co-Founder, CGO at X World Games. He is a senior marketing specialist and financial analyst with a decade-long accumulation of experience in various business portfolios and investments, also a crypto investor since 2013. He responsible for managing and growing Cardano Foundation's Asian & N. America communities beyond 100k. Actively contributed and participated in multiple blockchain projects' incubation and development, including ones that were later invested by industry-recognized VC funds.
Joseph Lubin
Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain application development firm. He also helped to establish the non-profit Ethereum Foundation and the VC fund ConsenSys Mesh, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications. Lubin holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. He is building the decentralized Web 3.0 on Ethereum.
Jeremy Wood
Jeremy Wood is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Input Output, and Co-Founder of Cardano. He was formerly an Executive Assistant at Ethereum.
Christopher Maree
Christopher Maree is a research partner at Hack VC, head of UMA Protocol Research, and a former Devcon V Scholar.
Kate Ianishevska
Kate Ianishevska is COO of PrivateAI and previously served as Head of Ecosystem and investment Relations at Syscoin. She has also been Head of marketing for Dogecoin, co-founder and CMO of AirDAO, and community Manager for Ethereum. Kate Ianishevska graduated from Odessa Metchnikov State University and holds a PhD in Investment Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Vanishree Rao
Vanishree Rao is the founder of Fermah and was previously Head of Cryptography at IOHK and Chief cryptographer at O(1) Labs. She holds a PhD in cryptography from UCLA.
Anthony Di Iorio
Anthony Di Iorio is the founder and CEO of Decentral and Jaxx, as well as an early co-founder of Ethereum and a technical expert and thought leader in the industry. Over the past thirty years, he has founded over a dozen companies and invested millions of dollars in various industries, including blockchain. In late 2013, he funded and participated in the founding of Ethereum. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Decentral, an innovation center and software development company based in Toronto, focusing on distributed technology. Decentral is the manufacturer of the digital asset platforms Jaxx Classic and Jaxx Liberty. He is knowledgeable in cryptocurrency, blockchain, finance, and business, and currently serves as an advisor to 15 companies. As the Chief Digital Officer of the TMX Group, the parent company of Canada's largest stock exchange, he is exploring ways to make exchanges operate more efficiently through blockchain technology. He has served as a lecturer in the Master's program in digital currencies at the University of Nicosia and has taught related courses at the University of Toronto Law School.
Shruti Appiah
Shruti Appiah is Chief Economist at Huddle01 and previously Head of Product at IOHK and Research scientist at BlockScience.
Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. He became involved with cryptocurrency early on, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
Giorgio Zinetti
Giorgio Zinetti is the CTO of Cardano. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico de Valencia in Italy.