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Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.
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Maksym Zavershynskyi
Maksym Zavershynskyi is former Vice President of Engineering at NEAR. Maksym Zavershynskyi has more than 10 years of industry experience, most recently at Google where he worked on applied Machine Learning.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
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.
Chaosmos
Chaosmos is the Head of Asia at Botanix and previously worked at CoinDesk and NEAR Protocol. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School.
Jeff Yan
Jeff Yan is a co-founder of Hyperliquid. Jeff began his career in high frequency trading at Hudson River Trading but soon moved over to the world of crypto where he built one of the largest market making firms in the space.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
Irmantas Motiejūnas
Irmantas Motiejūnas is co-founder and CTO of WhiteBridge and has worked at Google and Microsoft.
Mike Belshe
Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. He previously created the world's first multi-signature web wallet for Bitcoin, and was one of the top 10 engineers on the Google Chrome team.
2PMFLOW
2PMFLOW is an Azuki co-founder and engineer who worked at Google and Y-Combinator.
Bugra Cakmak
Bugra Cakmak is a co-founder of Cenoa. Prior to this, he was the co-founder and CTO of Bash Biotech Inc., the project manager at HAVELSAN, and a software engineer at Google.