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Luuk Strijers is CEO at Deribit. Dedicated Capital Markets professional with over 15 years experience in listed products, ETFs, Warrants, Equities, Derivatives, Exchange matching and Corporate Finance.
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Sergei Chan
Sergei Chan was Lead Analyst at BlockScience, BD at Deribit Exchange. Freelance UX & Product Designer. Apps Geek. Sergei is crypto and blockchain-enthusiast. His passion towards blockchain industry emerged in early 2017, since then he build a blockchain community in his city and organized a series of blockchain meet ups with industry experts. He is also a UI/UX and Product Designer and his previous experience include working with number of international companies, including Lexus, Toyota in Singapore, and US based start-ups. He thinks that combining blockchain and user experience is crucial part of mass adoption. He also holds Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration.
Tony Sweeney
Tony Sweeney is the chief information security officer at Deribit and previously served as head of information security at Unifonic and security compliance manager at Deutsche Bank.
Zaheer Ebtikar
Zaheer Ebtikar is co-founder of Split Capital and research Partner at Velo Data. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at LedgerPrime. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Elliot Parker
Elliot Parker is the COO at Ethena Labs and previously was a product manager at Paradigm. He is a graduate of the Australian National University.
Alex Hwang
Alex Hwang is the director of institutional business development at Bitget. He previously worked at Deribit and OKX.
Lin Chen
Lin Chen is Deribit's Head of Asia-Pacific Commerce and has built an extensive network in the cryptocurrency and fintech space in China. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
John Jansen
John Jansen is the Founder & Chairman of Deribit, a derivatives trading platform. He is a Bitcoin enthusiast and has been a options trader at the Amsterdam Exchange since 1999. He first heard about Bitcoin in the summer of 2012, bought some, and began trading on multiple exchanges. In early 2014, he came up with the idea of creating a cryptocurrency futures and options trading platform.
Marius Jansen
Marius Jansen is formerly COO at Deribit, crypto enthusiast, ex-crypto trader. Interested in Bitcoin since 2012 and soon after that he started trading on various crypto currency exchanges. While many of his friends where trading on "normal" stock exchanges, Marius grew into trading cryptocurrencies on a daily basis in early 2013. Mostly market making and arbitrage. In the early days he was responsible of a decent amount of the total bitcoin trading volume worldwide. As an experienced (ex-)crypto trader Marius was closely involved in the development of the platform, after all he is John's younger brother. In 2016 he joined Deribit and in the beginning of 2017 he quit trading to join the Deribit team on a full time basis. Marius: "It feels really special to be working on this project. We are doing things quite differently compared to other exchanges and it's really interesting to see how this will develop. I can't wait to see what the future will bring and what we can offer to the Bitcoin community world wide."