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Chris Lavery is the Chief Financial Officer of Ava Labs and a former graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Devika Mittal
Devika Mittal is the India Head of Ava Labs, having previously worked at Oyi OKX and Oyi OKX. She is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.
Grace Wang
Grace Wang is a senior software engineer at World. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked in software development before cofounding Salsa in 2022.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Ankit Wadhwa
Ankit Wadhwa is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rario. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Yuan Han Li
Yuan Han Li is a Principal at Blockchain Capital. He joined the firm in March of 2021. Yuan conducts investment diligence and also supports portfolio companies and DAOs. Prior to Blockchain Capital, Yuan was the Co-President of Penn Blockchain—one of the world’s largest student-run blockchain organizations. While there, Yuan led all of Penn Blockchain’s governance activities in addition to overseeing recruiting and business development. Yuan studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chose to withdraw in his final year to commit his time fully to crypto. In his spare time, Yuan enjoys cooking, skiing, playing strategy games, and listening to classical music.
Alfredo Terrero
Alfredo Terrero is the Co-Founder and COO of IntoTheBlock. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Alejo Pinto
Alejo Pinto is the founder of Pontem Network and previously worked at BlockFi. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
Katherine Minarik
Katherine Minarik is chief legal officer at Uniswap, and previously she was vice President of Legal at Coinbase. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ishaan Hiranandani
Ishaan Hiranandani is Strategy Lead at EigenLayer and was previously a product manager at jpmorgan Chase andan investor in Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.