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Jim Chang, co-founder of Cata Labs, is currently the Product Manager at Aave and Unstoppable Domains. He graduated from Northwestern University.
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Warren Paul Anderson
Warren Paul Anderson is Co-founder & CEO at Exocore and former CEO at Findora. He previously co-founded four startups, two of which shut down, and two were acquired.
Brian Chan
Brian Chan is currently the VP of Operations and Projects at Animoca Brands, taking charge of Web3 product development, strategic planning, and organization capability building. He has hands-on startup experience ranging from product design, game development, marketing, community management to commercial partnerships and fundraising. Brian brings over 10 years of experience in strategy, operations, and corporate finance. Prior to joining Animoca Brands, he was at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily advised financial institutions on digital transformation, growth strategy, and operations excellence. Prior to McKinsey, Brian was at DBS Bank and before that at Citibank, where he held multiple positions in the areas of debt capital markets and corporate banking. He obtained his undergraduate’s degree with a dual major in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Jordan Lazaro Gustave
Jordan Lazaro Gustave is COO at Aave, Leader at Franco-British Council. Aave is an Open Source and Non-Custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration by third party devs and companies.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Yuri Mushkin
Yuri Mushkin is the Chief Risk Officer of OKX and will be responsible for leading the company’s global risk strategy and the enterprise risk management function independent of the business, reporting directly to the CEO and the Board of Directors. Yuri Mushkin started his career at Goldman Sachs and then joined McKinsey & Company as a senior risk expert and managed financial risks in McKinsey’s Investment Office (MIO).
David Racero
David Racero is the founder of Catapulta, and previously he was a Blockchain Level 1 Senior Engineer at Aave.
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.
Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan is a Podcast Host at Good Game Podcast, a Core Contributor for Alliance, and a Co-Founder and Venture Partner for Volt Capital. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.