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Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
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Kindra Mason
Kindra Mason is the former Chief of staff and Head of Operations at Haun Ventures and previously was Chief of staff at Andreessen Horowitz and Community Director at M13. She graduated from Harvard University.
Noah Perlman
Noah Perlman is the Chief Compliance Officer at Binance.Before Binance, He worked at Gemini, first as CCO and then as Chief Operating Officer. He also served as President and CEO of the Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a New York trust company regulated by the the New York State Department of Financial Services. Before starting in crypto, He was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Financial Crimes at Morgan Stanley, where He had legal and compliance responsibility for the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Boycott, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities programs. Earlier in his career He was the Division Counsel for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division. Prior to his stint with DEA He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York where He held several supervisory posts including Special Coordinator for Crimes against Children and Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section.
Maggie Hsu
Maggie Hsu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading go-to-market for the crypto portfolio. She previously led go-to-market for Amazon Managed Blockchain at Amazon Web Services, and before that led business development for AirSwap, a decentralized exchange. Maggie has held executive positions at Zappos.com and Hilton Worldwide. She was also a consultant at McKinsey and Company. Maggie is a cofounder of Gold House, a nonprofit collective of pioneering Asian leaders. She holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University.
Caitlin Long
Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Custodia, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, and responsible for the recent groundbreaking crypto-friendly legislation in Wyoming. She is a Harvard Law School graduate and a 22-year Wall Street veteran, and is often asked to provide expert commentary on the SEC. Institutional Investor named her one of the most influential people in pensions from 2013 to 2015.
Li Jin
Li Jin is the co-founder of Variant Fund and the founder of Atelier Ventures. Prior to that, Li Jin was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Wayne Fu
Wayne Fu is the Managing Partner of Old Fashion Research (OFR) and was formerly the Head of Corporate Development at Binance.
Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon is a partner at a16z and leads the investments of the a16z Crypto Fund. His investments in companies such as Coinbase have earned him the top spot on Forbes magazine's "2022 World's Best Venture Capitalists List".
Carra Wu
Carra Wu is a partner on the a16z Crypto Investment team. She focuses on gaming, metaverse, media, and DAO investments across crypto. Previously, she was a software engineer building AR/VR apps and games for the Hololens at Microsoft, and a product manager working on search systems and developer-facing products for the App Store. She got into crypto in 2017 while working for a data analytics startup. Carra studied Applied Math, Computer Science, and Economics at Harvard University, where she danced with the Harvard Ballet Company.
Dave Wang
Dave Wang is the co-founder and managing partner of 99 Capital and previously worked at SoftBank as the Head of cryptocurrency investments for the SoftBank Latin America Fund. He graduated from Harvard University in the United States.
Geoff Hamilton
Geoff is an Investment Research Partner at Variant, where he focuses primarily on DeFi. Prior to joining Variant, Geoff spent 15 years investing in private and public companies. During that time, helped start and grow five investment firms, including Askesis Capital, Dayah Capital, Sachem Head Capital Management, and Conatus Capital. Before that, Geoff worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company and studied Economics at Harvard.