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Joanna Zeng is the co-founder and CEO of SOON and was previously Vice President of Aleo. He has also worked at Coinbase, OP Labs, Citi, and BNP Paribas. He graduated in economics from Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia Business School.
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Jordan Clifford
Jordan Clifford is the co-founder and managing director of Scalar Capital. Previously, he was the lead growth engineer at Coinbase. Jordan has also worked as a software engineer at several tech startups and as a business analyst at Capital One. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Urvit Goel
Urvit (Urv) Goel is the Global Head of BD and Vice president of Optimism, and previously was the VP, Head of Global BD at Polygon and also worked at Amazon. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
Patrick McGregor
Patrick McGregor is the Chief Product Officer at Crusoe. Presively he worked at Coinbase, Google and Trustwave. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University & Princeton University.
Madhur Shrimal
Madhur Shrimal is a senior software engineer at EigenLayer and previously was a senior software engineer at Coinbase. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in the United States.
Tess Rinearson
Tess Rinearson is the head of product at OP Labs and previously worked at Twitter and the Interchain Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University.
Varun Srinivasan
Varun Srinivasan is Co-Founder at Farcaster. Previously, built crypto things at Coinbase, audio hardware at SoundFocus (YC S13), productivity tools at Microsoft.
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.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.