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Liam Kovatch is the Head of Engineering at Polymarket. He founded Paradigm, a decentralized trading agreement, and dropped out of Columbia University in New York.
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Rich Jaycobs
Rich Jaycobs is head of market development at Polymarket. Previously, he was President of Cantor Futures Exchange and was involved in the registration and operation of more than a dozen innovative financial derivatives exchanges and clearing houses.
Henry Harder
Henry Harder is Researcher at Polychain and formerly CTO at Paradigm. System architecture, backend engineer, and network operations. Head of Financial Research, Blockchain at Columbia. Computer Science, Columbia University School of Engineering.
Jason
Jason is the Chief Financial Officer at Nakamoto Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He previously served as the Finance Director at a leading startup technology company.
Maximiliano Torres
Maximiliano Torres is former Head of Finance at 0x. He left 0x in April 2022 but continued supporting web3 builders through angel investments and advising in companies, such as Aleph Zero, AngelBlock, dBloks, Delta Prime, Safary Club, and Thaw Digital. His goal is to bridge Silicon Valley's capital with promising web3 founders in LATAM, supporting those who are creating disruptive and sustainable products. Currently, he is a mentor at Rayo Capital, a LATAM-focused web3 fund.
Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Kevin Zhang
Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.
Srini Dhulipala
Srini Dhulipala is a General Partner at New Form managing Liquid Opportunities. He has 20+ years of experience running business verticals in risk management, portfolio construction and trading. Formerly, he was CIO & Founder of Kildonan Castle Asset Management; Head of Proprietary Credit trading and Global Head of Credit trading at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America; Credit Derivatives trader at Morgan Stanley. A former automotive design engineer, Srini holds and MBA from Columbia University and MS (Mech Eng) from Virginia Tech.
Chris Lepensky
Chris Lepensky is a former Data Director at Utopia, a former investment partner at Variant, and a former data scientist at 0x. He has a PhD from the University of Connecticut.
Sean Lippel
Sean Lippel is a general partner at FinTech Collective, having previously worked at Salesforce Ventures and Credit Suisse. He graduated from Columbia Business School and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.