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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Winnie Lau
Winnie Lau is the Principal at BlockTower. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University Business School.
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Kevin Miao
Kevin Miao is the General Partner, Head Of Credit at BlockTower. Presively he worked at Citi.He graduated from Harvard Business School.
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Rahul Rai
Rahul Rai was previously the co-founder of Gamma Point Capital, Co-Head of Market Neutral at BlockTower Capital.
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Steven Venino
Steven Venino is a partner at BlockTower Capital, where he has over 7 years of experience in venture capital, investment research, structured products, and trading. He graduated from Boston University.