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Matt Shapiro is a Partner at Multicoin Capital, where he works closely with limited partners, generates investment ideas, and manages daily responsibilities of due diligence, strategy, and negotiations as a senior member of the investment team. Prior to joining Multicoin Capital, he served as a Vice President in the investment banking group at Teneo, specializing in raising institutional capital around specific investment theses, management teams, and assets across a range of industries. During his time at Teneo, he focused on constructing transactions that aligned the interests of disparate parties while maximizing returns for all stakeholders. His experience around incentive structures attracted him to the underlying mechanics of cryptoassets and how they enable various parties to trustlessly engage in diverse and complex transactions. Matt is based in New York City and holds a degree in Finance and International Business from the University of Maryland.
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Brian Smith
Brian leads finance and operations for the firm. He specializes in deal structuring, due diligence, and legal and financial processes. Brian previously served as a public equity analyst at Tiger Management (where he helped launch a Tiger-seeded hedge fund), a private equity investor with Fox Paine & Co., an investment banker at Greenhill & Co., and he co-led finance at Bazaarvoice (BV) through the company's IPO.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer at Coinbase, previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Maryland.
David Hirsch
David Hirsch is the managing Partner at Compound VC and previously worked at Google. He graduated from the University of Maryland.
Himanshu Tyagi
Himanshu Tyagi is a co-founder of Sentient and Witness Chain and an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Christine Perry
Christine Perry is the former VP Solutions Engineering at Skale Labs, building highly configurable elastic sidechains for Ethereum.
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science. Andrew Miller is also an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and a board member of the Zcash Foundation. He received my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Cybersecurity Center. His research interests are broadly in computer security, and focused on the design of secure decentralized systems and cryptocurrencies.
Ryan Gentry
Ryan Gentry is Director of business development at Lightning Labs and former principal analyst at Multicoin Capital.
Mable Jiang
Mable Jiang is the Chief Revenue Officer at STEPN. She was previously a Partner at Multicoin Capital and a Corporate Strategy Manager at DiDi. Mable Jiang graduated from Columbia University.
Dara Khan
Dara Khan is Head of Marketing at Gauntlet and was previously Head of Marketing at Decent Labs and Director of Product Marketing at Kraken. He graduated from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.