Diana Zhang

COO at Grayscale

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Diana Zhang has a diverse professional background with experience in various industries. Diana currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at BlockTower Capital since February 2023. Prior to that, they founded NeighborShare in April 2020, where they also held the role of CEO and served as a Board Member. In 2022, Diana became a Presidential Leadership Scholar as part of the Class of 2022 at the Presidential Leadership Scholars program. Diana has also been a Member of the Board of Directors at the Connecticut Food Bank since January 2019. In April 2025, Diana was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Grayscale.

Work Experience

Grayscale

COO

Apr, 2025 - Now

BlockTower Capital

COO

Feb, 2023 - Oct, 2024

Relevance Person

Avi Felman

Avi Felman is a former general partner at GoldenChain and head of digital asset trading at Goldentree, and previously worked at BlockTower Capital, Wave Financial, and was co-founder of Ledger Capital.

Jordan Palmer

Jordan Palmer is currently the Vice President of Operations at Grayscale Investments. He previously served as the Director of Operations and Finance at Scalar Capital and also worked as a Quantitative Analyst at JP Morgan. Jordan Palmer holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from New York University.

Zach Pandl

Zach Pandl is managing director of research at Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital currency asset manager. Prior to joining Grayscale Zach worked as a macroeconomist and markets strategist at a variety of Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs, Nomura Securities, and Lehman Brothers. Zach holds a bachelor's degree in international economics from the University of St. Thomas and a master's degree in economics from New York University.

Kevin Chan

Kevin Chan is a vice president at BlockTower Capital and was previously the founder of Wristband. He also previously worked at Deloitte. Kevin Chan graduated from Cornell University.

Peter Mintzberg

Peter Mintzberg is CEO of Grayscale and was previously head of global strategy at Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management. He is an MBA from the Federal University of Brazil and Harvard University.

Ari Paul

Ari Paul is the CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. Prior to his time in the crypto space, Paul was a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's endowment, as well as a derivatives trader. He is interviewed about his views on crypto regularly by publications like BusinessInsider and Forbes.

Steve Lee

Investor at BlockTower Capital; Formerly Portfolio Manager, Trader at Goldman Sachs; Engineering at University of Illinois; Japan, Korea, US, Singapore; Trilingual. Having been raised, educated, and working in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Singapore and grown trilingual, Steve has worked as a investment director and Head of Asia in BlockTower Capital to contribute to the firm's global investment in cryptoasset and blockchain industry and lead its Asia business. Before BlockTower Capital, Steve worked as front, middle, back office roles in Tokyo and Singapore with Goldman Sachs. Before his career in financial industry, Steve worked as a research engineer in the U.S. working with U.S. government and world's leading semiconductor companies after he majored in Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Blake Richardson

Blake Richardson is a co-founder of Superform and was previously Head of DeFi at BlockTower Capital. He graduated from George Washington University with a degree in economics.

Thomas Klocanas

Thomas Klocanas is the General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.

Elizabeth Ralston

Elizabeth Ralston is general counsel at Polymer and was previously general counsel at Turnkey and has also worked at Coinbase, Bison Trails, and BlockTower Capital. He graduated from the University of Arizona.