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Michael Mosier is the Partner at ex/ante. Michael co-founded Arktouros, a legal boutique dedicated to emergent technology and civil society. He has twice been the first in-house counsel at tech companies: Espresso Systems, building configurable private computation and decentralized sequencing, and Chainalysis, developing blockchain analytics. In public service, Michael served as Acting Director (Deputy Director & Digital Innovation Officer) of the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN, driving initiatives on privacy and digital identity to improve the resilience and opportunity of the financial system. He also was Counselor (cybersecurity & emerging technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, a Director at the White House National Security Council, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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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.
Benedikt Bünz
Benedikt Bunz is the co-founder and chief scientist of Espresso Systems. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Zurich.
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.
Gus Gutoski
Gus Gutoski is a cryptography engineer at Espresso Systems and is passionate about cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and anything blockchain. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
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).
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.
Binyi Chen
Binyi Chen is Chief Cryptozoologist at Espresso Systems and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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.