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As President of DCG, Mark works closely with the company's six wholly-owned subsidiaries on strategy, execution, and all management matters. He leads DCG's legal, communications, marketing, brand, and public policy efforts, and supports the CEO on day-to-day management. Mark also advises DCG's 175+ portfolio companies on public relations, brand, and marketing efforts. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blockchain Association, the industry's leading trade association.
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Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds is chief editor at CoinDesk and previously was global executive editor at Bloomberg. He graduated from the College of New Jersey.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu is Head of marketing communications at Avail, and previously she was Head of Communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Travis Scher
Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.
Josh Schwartz
Schwartz is the CEO of Fordefi and has prior experience as the COO of Curv, a crypto security provider which was acquired by Paypal in 2021. He was also previously the VP of Sales at BitGo and the Global Head of New Business Development at Bloomberg Tradebook.
Feng Liu
Feng Liu is a partner at BODL Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in next-generation networks and decentralized applications. He was the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ChainNews, one of the largest crypto news outlets in China. Prior to that, Feng was the Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese edition of Bloomberg Businessweek. He led a team to launch the Chinese edition of Bloomberg Businessweek in 2011 and grew the publication to one of the largest business media outlets in China.
Yuan Xia
Yuan Xia is the Founder & CEO of Secure3. Previously, he worked for GGV Capital, Airbnb, and Facebook. He is also the Founding Director & CSO of CertiK. He graduated from Purdue University and Yale University.
Rich Hauschild
Rich Hauschild is the CEO of Fortress Trust and previously served as COO of crypto IRA provider iTrustCapital.
Bill Lou
Bill Lou is the co-founder and CEO of Nest Wallet and was previously the co-founder of bstreet.io and KL Ventures, as well as a software engineer at Bloomberg and a Draper Dragon analyst.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.