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Frances Edwards is Chief Operating Officer of Avantgarde and previously COO of Valour and COO of EMEA at BlackRock. She graduated from the University of Bath.
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Han Liu
Han Liu is the founder of BitFi and was previously the co-founder and CTO of AscendEX and an analyst at BlackRock. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012.
Sam Fang
Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Ivy Qi
Ivy Qi is the CMO of Chainbase and previously was Senior Marketing Director at Conflux, Investment Director at Huobi, and Marketing Manager at Xiaomi. She graduated from the University of Bath in 2012.
Mohammad Shaikh
Mohammad Shaikh is co-founder and CEO of Aptos and former director of Strategy at ConsenSys. Shaikh has also worked at Meta, The Boston Consulting Group, and BlackRock. Mohammad holds an MBA from the University of Rochester - Simon Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Economics, and Accounting from Hunter College.
Olivier Roussy Newton
Olivier Roussy Newton is the Co-Founder & CEO of Valour. He also is the Founder at Latent Capital, DEFI Technologies and HIVE Blockchain Technologies.
Peter Knez
Peter Knez is the Chairman of Venom Foundation.Peter Knez is a former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock.Prior to that, Peter held positions with Lincoln Capital Management and Goldman Sachs, where he led quantitative research and fixed income. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Peter held professorship positions at Kellogg School of Management, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Peter completed his PhD work at The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, with a research focus on term structure models and asset allocation.
Ryan Ptolemy
Ryan Ptolemy is the CFO at Valour and DeFI Technologies.
Russell Starr
Russell Starr is the Head of Capital Markets at Valour. Former Bay Street Executive and Hedge Fund manager.
Federico Brokate
Federico Brokate is vice president and head of U.S. operations at 21Shares and previously served as BlackRock's Director of U.S. business strategy, where he was responsible for developing and implementing iShares' overall business strategy. He graduated from New York University.
James Strudwick
James Strudwick is the Executive Director and former Head of Ecosystem Growth at StarkNet and was previously Vice President of Growth at Mina Foundation and Head of Business Development at Alpaca Finance.