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Michael Gronager is the former CEO and co-founder of Chainalysis, the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies, and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis, Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro-to-bitcoin exchange, where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and serving as a cryptocurrency expert. Before entering the Bitcoin scene in 2011, Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, most recently as CEO of the Nordic DataGrid Facility, which was then the biggest distributed storage installation in the world. Michael has served as a member of the Research Infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board, and is currently a member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center (NSC). Michael is also co-founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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Jaclyn Mack
Jaclyn Mack is the Vice President of Human Resources at Chainalysis. She is proficient in providing strong internal consulting in employee relations, talent management, performance management, and change management.
Philip Gradwell
Philip Gradwell is Head of Economics at Tether and previously Chief Economist at Chainalysis, where he led data-driven research and development on blockchain economics. Previously, he led Vivid Economics' Energy and Climate Change Economics Advisory team.
Awa Sun Yin
Awa Sun Yin is the co-founder of Anoma & Namada and was previously the co-founder of Cryptium Labs. He has served as a data scientist and software engineer at Chanialysis, a Cosmos researcher, and a technical grant manager at the Ethereum Community Fund. Her main research areas are blockchain technology, cryptography for privacy and scalability of consensus algorithms, security in distributed and decentralized systems, and hardware, especially Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
Hannah Curtis
Hannah Curtis is the Director of Product Management at Dune and previously was the Director of Web operations at Chainalysis. She is a graduate of Georgia State University.
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Chainalysis. Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Blockchain Intelligence Platform powers our compliance and investigation software for some of the world's leading institutions. With offices in New York City, Washington D.C., and Copenhagen, Chainalysis is global and backed by Benchmark and other renowned venture capital firms.
Kevin O’Brien
Kevin O’Brien will is the President of Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS). CGS is a Chainalysis subsidiary that serves U.S. defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian agencies. Kevin joins Chainalysis from Orbital Insight, the geospatial analytics company, where he has been serving as CEO since 2020. Prior to serving as CEO, Kevin was the Chief Operating Officer for three years. Kevin brings with him more than 25 years of global experience in leadership positions at both software and data companies.
Simon Ousager
Simon Ousager is the founder and CEO of Januar and previously served as the lead training specialist for Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen.
Duncan Hoffman
Duncan Hoffman is the chief revenue officer at Kiln and previously worked at Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Jim Lee
Jim Lee is the director of global capacity building at Chainalysis and was previously the head of criminal investigations at the IRS.
Sari Granat
Sari Granat is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Chainalysis. She previously worked at IHS Markit, TheMarkets.com LLC, Dow Jones, and Kaplan. She holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University.