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Christopher Maree is a research partner at Hack VC, head of UMA Protocol Research, and a former Devcon V Scholar.
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Sean Brown
Sean Brown is a research partner at Hack VC, a former UMA product lead, and a former IBM blockchain senior advisor.
Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Chichi Hong
Chichi Hong is the Asia Partner at Hack VC. She also is the Co-Founder at ScalingX. Before that Chichi Hong is thhe Founder & CEO at Hey Maet and As a Partner at Ausvic Capital.
Julian Rachman
Julian Rachman is the Venture Partner at Hack VC and former Growth Lead at Nomad. Formerly, Founder & CEO at Ripplink, Data Science Engineer at Pollenly and MediaHound.
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.
Alex Botte
Alex Botte is a partner at Hack VC and previously served as vice president at Two Sigma Ventures. She graduated from Cornell University.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.
Matt Rice
Matt Rice is CTO at UMA. Previously, Software Engineer at Google, Principal Engineer at One Daijo Ltd. Engineering financial inclusion via blockchain.
Mihai Alisie
Mihai Alisie is a co-founder of Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine, and is currently focused on making the Akasha Project a reality. He has been actively involved in the blockchain technology space since 2011 when he, along with Vitalik Buterin, created the world's first Bitcoin-centric publication, Bitcoin Magazine. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the magazine until late 2013, when he joined Vitalik in founding the Ethereum project. In the early days of Ethereum, Mihai played a key role in establishing the business infrastructure and legal framework critical for the Ethereum "pre-sale" campaign, leading the Swiss efforts. Following the successful Swiss setup, he oversaw Ethereum operations as Strategic Manager and Vice-President of the Ethereum Foundation until late 2015, when he shifted his focus to making the AKASHA dream a reality.