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Howard Peng works at TON Ventures and was previously Head of Development Relations for Asia at Ton. He previously worked as a data analyst at Nascent and Binance.
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Inal Kardan
Inal Kardan is a partner at TON Ventures and was previously Head of gaming at the TON Foundation and co-founder and CTO of Meta0. He graduated from the National University of Management (SUM).
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Josh Felker
Josh Felker is co-founder of Nascent. Previously, he founded Vigilant Global Trading in Montreal, which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012, where he spent five years as a partner overseeing liquidity provision, risk/directional trading, venture capital, cryptocurrency trading, and more. Josh holds a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from Western University.
Theresa Regenstreif
Theresa Regenstreif leads Finance, Operations, and People at Nascent. Previously, Theresa was Head of Finance at an early stage Fintech company that was acquired, with a VC who built and invested in early stage consumer facing Fintech companies, and worked with an impact investor seeding early stage agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Theresa holds a graduate degree in Accountancy from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Rain Long
Rain Long is CHO at HashKey Group, formerly the head of human resources at Binance, and also served as CHO at JD.com. Rain Long graduated from China Europe Business School EMBA and Stanford University Mini MBA.
Chase Guo
Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek and Molecule. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.
Yele Bademosi
Yele Bademosi is the CEO and Co-Founder at Nestcoin. Yele is passionate about blockchain adoption at a global level, sharing: “On a high level, my mandate is to leverage blockchain to accelerate Africa’s transition to a sustainable and developed economy. I believe very strongly that blockchain adoption will come from frontier markets that will leapfrog the existing financial systems as well as governance and economic models.”
Batuhan Dasgin
Batuhan Dasgin is a director of the Celestia Foundation and was previously co-head of Binance Labs and Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap.
Lisa Ferdman
Lisa Ferdman is the Head of Events and Production at TON Foundation.