Justin Kim

Head of Asia at Avalanche

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Justin Kim is the Head of Asia at Ava Labs, supporting the Avalanche ecosystem. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Work Experience

Avalanche

Head of Asia

Education Experience

University of Michigan

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Jasper Zhang

Jasper (Yue) Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic and was previously a Senior Blockchain Fellow at Ava Labs and a quant Fellow at Citadel Securities. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Peking University. He is also a gold medalist in the Alibaba Global Math Competition and the Chinese Math Olympiad.

Maofan Ted Yin

Maofan Ted Yin is the former chief scientist at Hyperbolic. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Cornell University.

Jake Moilanen

Jake Moilanen is the founder, President and CTO of Ironlight. He graduated from the University of Michigan and the McCombs School of Business in Texas.

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.

John Wu

John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.

Ishaan Hiranandani

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Phillip Liu Jr.

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Chris Lavery

Chris Lavery is the Chief Financial Officer of Ava Labs and a former graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Devika Mittal

Devika Mittal is the India Head of Ava Labs, having previously worked at Oyi OKX and Oyi OKX. She is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the Chief Marketing officer at Eco and was previously Vice President of Marketing at Ava Labs and Head of Marketing at AirSwap. He is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington.