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Jonathan is the Global Head of Business Development at Wintermute, a leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets. He has over 10 years of experience in trading, including derivatives and options with Citadel Securities and BlackEdge Capital, as well as investments with Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Will Wang
Will Wang is a Founding Partner at TKX Capital, a full-service crypto investment bank in primary and secondary markets. Prior to this, he was the Head of Investment and Business Development at Huobi North America, a leading global crypto trading exchange.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta previously served as Executive Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase and also served as Vice President of Engineering at Lyft. He is a graduate of the University of Mumbai and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is CEO of Borderless and previously was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fortress Trust Company and Chief Product Officer of Prime Trust. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Yoann Turpin
Yoann Turpin is Co-Founder & Head Of Business Development at Wintermute. After more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building a few businesses, I decided to join Evgeny and Harro to co-found Wintermute Trading, an algorithmic liquidity provider in the crypto space. We are now 3 years old , have 15 staff, 3 investment rounds under our belts - proudly backed by Lightspeed, Blockchain.com and a cool bunch of angels. We are very much striving for a culture of excellence and fair practices in this maturing space. I currently lead our business development, focused on maximising our access to flow and always trying to add value to anyone I interact with. In general, I am passionate about entrepreneurship, technology and finance and have invested in a good few start-ups (near 30 directly and 60 indirectly).
Peter Piekarczyk
Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nicholas Garcia
Nicholas Garcia is founder and CEO of Fortunafi and founder and partner of Space Whale Capital. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Elliot Feeny
Elliot Feeny is the DeFi partner lead at Fortunafii and previously was Director of business Development at Blockdaemon. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ethan Chan
Ethan Chan is the CEO and co-founder of Allium and previously worked at Microsoft. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.