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Mohammad Shaikh is co-founder and CEO of Aptos and former director of Strategy at ConsenSys. Shaikh has also worked at Meta, The Boston Consulting Group, and BlackRock. Mohammad holds an MBA from the University of Rochester - Simon Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Economics, and Accounting from Hunter College.
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Tom Lorek
Tom Lorek is the Head of Partnerships at Aptos Labs and previously served in Meta's cryptocurrency team, Novi. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Yale University.
Gerardo Di Giacomo
Gerardo Di Giacomo is the Head of Security at Aptos Labs, responsible for securing the Aptos network, Aptos Labs products, and driving the company's security program. With over 20 years of experience in internet security, he is passionate about safeguarding digital assets and privacy.
Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the co-founder and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet.
Terry Rossi
Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Han Liu
Han Liu is the founder of BitFi and was previously the co-founder and CTO of AscendEX and an analyst at BlackRock. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Rahul Bishnoi
Rahul Bishnoi is an investor at Brevan Howard Digital, previously he was a junior partner at Dragonfly's Liquid Fund and a blockchain engineer at Energy Web\n. He is a graduate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIITH), Hyderabad.