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Mike Lempres previously served as Executive Director, general counsel, and Head of government affairs at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he was Chief Policy officer at Coinbase. He has extensive expertise in emerging or challenging regulatory environments, international affairs and corporate governance. He was elected to the Atherton City Council and is an active board member in both private and non-profit entities.
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Johanna Tseng
Johanna Tseng is vice president of Growth at Plume Network, where she previously worked at Coinbase. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics.
Hilary Kivitz
Hilary Kivitz is an angel investor. She works at a16z, Propel, and Ribbit Capital and has led a large number of financial technology investments. She received a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, a BPhil from Oxford University and a BA in philosophy from UC Berkeley.
Kevin Britz
Kevin Britz is the co-founder of Equilibria and Perennial. Previously, he worked as an advisor for DeFi at Coinbase and as a software engineer at Airbnb. He graduated from UC Berkeley.
Teddy Pornprinya
Teddy Pornprinya is Co-Founder and CBO of Plume Network and previously worked at Binance, Swim and Coinbase. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Katie Chiou
Katie Chiou is an investor in Archetype, having previously worked at Gitcoin and Coinbase. She graduated from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rachael Horwitz
Rachael Horwitz is the CMO of Haun Ventures, and she was the VP of Communications at Coinbase. Rachael Horowitz currently serves as the first-ever Spark Capital Marketing and Communications Partner. This role will put Horwitz at the head of the firm’s marketing and communications activities, along with community events and initiatives. Horwitz spent nearly five years at Twitter as Communications Director, and then took that experience to Facebook’s Communications department for another 15 months.
Surojit Chatterjee
Surojit Chatterjee is former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase. Surojit Chatterjee is joining Coinbase as our new Chief Product Officer after spending 11 years at Google. Coinbase is a product-led company, and Surojit will play a critical role in making the cryptoeconomy accessible to millions more people through Coinbase’s suite of products. Most recently, Surojit was Vice President of Product at Google, where he led Google Shopping, which helps people discover and compare products on Google. Before leading Google Shopping, Surojit was the Head of Product at Flipkart, a popular Indian e-commerce site, leading product management, user experience, product operations, and data science. Prior to Flipkart, Surojit was a founding member of Google’s mobile search ads product.
Riyaz Faizullabhoy
Riyaz Faizullabhoy is the Co-Founder at Bastion and formerly CTO at a16z Crypto. Previously, he was in Security Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook, a founding engineer at Anchorage, and a Security Engineer at Docker. Work hard and be kind.
Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Network State. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols, including Alchemy, Ava Labs, Bitcoin, Cameo, Chainlink, Clubhouse, Dapper Labs, Ethereum, Instadapp, NEAR Protocol, OnDeck, Opensea, Solana, Soylent, Superhuman, Synthesis, and Zora. Dr. Srinivasan is also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
Akhila Raju
Akhila Raju has worked in multiple crypto companies. She was previously the product director of Tweed and a back-end development engineer at Coinbase. She has also worked at several Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Apple, SAP, and startups such as Waze and ConsenSys.