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Nick Chong is a crypto-native investor focused on decentralized finance. Nick Chong currently operate independently, supporting the best founders in the space by helping to restructure cap tables, refine token economics, and formulate product and marketing strategies as an angel and advisor. I also support ParaFi Capital, a digital asset manager, in sourcing primary market opportunities.
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Adrian Uberto
Adrian Uberto is a partner and COO of ParaFi Capital, and previously was Managing Director, CEO and COO of CoinList. He graduated from George Washington University and East China Normal University.
Ben Forman
Benjamin Forman is the Founder and Managing Partner of ParaFi Capital. Prior to founding ParaFi in 2018, he spent 10 years at leading alternative investment managers, including KKR and TPG. While at KKR, he served as a Director in the Credit business, investing across a variety of industry sectors and strategies, including distressed special situations, private credit, and opportunistic and liquid credit. Before KKR, he served as a Vice President with TPG's former credit business, Sixth Street Partners, as one of the first investment professionals to join the platform. Earlier in his career, he worked in private equity at Littlejohn & Company and investment banking at Rothschild & Co. He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ryan Navi
Ryan Navi is the principal of ParaFi Capita. He was previously an investment banking analyst at Citibank. He graduated from Cornell University.
Santiago R Santos
Santiago Roel Santos is Angel investor focusing on tech and healthcare, Founder of EON Capital, formerly Crypto-asset investing at ParaFi Capital, Founder of Roca Capital. Santiago became involved in Bitcoin in 2013 after realizing its potential to disrupt the remittance industry and to democratize the access to information and services. Beyond disrupting legacy businesses, he is most excited about the rise of new forms of decentralized models powered by blockchains. Prior to Roca, Santiago worked at J.P. Morgan in their investment banking financial sponsors group and then at Sageview Capital investing and helping internet and software companies scale. He then was technical advisor to the founders of Elysium Health, a leading consumer health company shifting the paradigm of drug discovery. He was one of the youngest recipients of the J.P. Morgan Launching Leaders Scholarship and admitted to their investment banking program as a freshman. Santiago earned a BA in Economics magna cum laude from Boston University in 3 years.
Yanfeng Chen
Yanfeng Chen is the co-founder of LongHash. He holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was the General Manager of the Western Region at National Instruments Limited (Nasdaq: NATI), and was the founding shareholder of "Star Instruments", which provides customized test and measurement instruments to industrial customers.
Jasmine Zhang
Jasmine Zhang is the founding partner of A&T Capital and an angel investor in projects such as Kaito.
Kevin Yedid-Botton
Kevin Yedid-Botton is a Financial Markets expert at ParaFi Capital. Previously, he was a Quant and Strategic Investments PM. From 2015 to 2018, he was the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Tenzar Technologies, a computing company based in San Diego, CA. Professional Expertise: Technology, Financial Markets, and Investment Management.
Mika Honkasalo
Mika Honkasalo is an investment partner at Equilibrium Ventures and founder of Access Protocol, having previously held positions at ParaFi Capital and The Block.
James Gong
James Gong is an early evangelist of China's blockchain industry, co-founder of LongHash, founder of ChainB, and founder of ICOAGE. He graduated from Shanghai University majoring in mathematics.
Emily Parker
Emily Parker is the former executive director of global strategy at CoinDesk, where she was previously the co-founder of LongHash. She is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard University.