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Neil Chopra is the head of banking and asset management at Fireblocks. He previously worked at Ripple. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton is the lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, having previously held positions at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
James Kow
James Kow is head of business development at Bitstamp. Before that he was an executive director at State Street Bank. He was also the head of foreign exchange e-commerce sales at Citibank and he worked at Bloomberg. He graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
Danny Aranda
Danny Aranda is the co-founder of PartyDAO and previously the Managing Director of Ripple Europe. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds is chief editor at CoinDesk and previously was global executive editor at Bloomberg. He graduated from the College of New Jersey.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Josh Schwartz
Schwartz is the CEO of Fordefi and has prior experience as the COO of Curv, a crypto security provider which was acquired by Paypal in 2021. He was also previously the VP of Sales at BitGo and the Global Head of New Business Development at Bloomberg Tradebook.
Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.
Feng Liu
Feng Liu is a partner at BODL Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in next-generation networks and decentralized applications. He was the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ChainNews, one of the largest crypto news outlets in China. Prior to that, Feng was the Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese edition of Bloomberg Businessweek. He led a team to launch the Chinese edition of Bloomberg Businessweek in 2011 and grew the publication to one of the largest business media outlets in China.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.