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Justin Drake
Justin lives in Cambridge, UK where he studied mathematics. He founded the Cambridge Bitcoin Meetup group in 2013, and in 2014 left his job as a programmer and FPGA engineer to study the blockchain space. In 2015 he operated a Bitcoin ATM and started a company providing a web interface for OpenBazaar. He is now a researcher for the Ethereum Foundation focusing on sharding.
Bob Summerwill
Bob Summerwill is Executive Director for the ETC Cooperative and has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. He worked on Ethereum and Hyperledger in earlier years, followed by a switch to Ethereum Classic and a belated Bitcoin orange-pilling. He has a growing interest in privacy projects. Bob has been programming since 1984 and as a professional software engineer since 1996 (primarily working on AAA video games). Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003, and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK. He was foundational in the creation of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, working full-time on that project for ConsenSys from October 2016 to October 2017.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.
Belinda Zhou
Belinda Zhou is the Founding Partner at Sharding Capital. She graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and Cambridge University in the UK.
Sajjad R.
Sajjad R. is the Vice President of Revenue at Immunefi. He was previously a design engineer turned venture capitalist and GTM leader. He graduated from Cambridge University.
Cynthia Alexander
Cynthia Alexander is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mentaport. She has expertise in Web3, FinTech, and Computational Biology, bringing a wealth of knowledge to the table. She was the founding lead data scientist at PayJoy, a FinTech company focused on extending credit in emerging markets. Cynthia was instrumental in scaling analytics, AI, and ML initiatives from a few thousand to over a million registered users. Prior to that, she was classically trained as a computational biologist at prestigious institutions such as the University of Cambridge and Max Plank. Together with her co-founder, she is constructing the future of NFTs.
Danny Ryan
Danny Ryan is a former researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, previously served as lead coordinator for the transition of Ethereum to the proof-of-stake consensus system The Merge, and oversaw the 2021 launch of the Beacon Chain, contributing to the Ethereum Foundation blog, including progress updates on the proposals improvement of Ethereum.
Max Chamberlin
Max Chamberlin is co-founder and CEO of Bitfinity Network and previously was Chief Technology Officer at Chi Pay and a data scientist at Credit Suisse. He has a master's degree in machine learning from Cambridge University.
Christian Reitwiessner
Dr. Christian Reitwiessner is Team Lead at Ethereum, Creator of Solidity - looking for C++ engineers. Created the smart contract programming language Solidity and worked on the C++ implementation of Ethereum. Ethereum is a blockchain-based trusted and transparent decentralised computing platform and Solidity is a statically typed programming language that compiles to the bytecode native to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Alessandro Rietmann
Alessandro Rietmann is co-founder and CTO of Bitfinity Network and previously was co-founder and CTO of thnk AI, an artificial intelligence company. He has a master's degree in computer science from Cambridge University.