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Nick Martitsch is head of market development at Paradigm. Previously, he was Partner Director at Compound Labs, Capital formation Associate at Pantera Capital, and co-founder of Cryptix.
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Dean Swennumson
Dean Swennumson is co-founder and head of operations at Superstate and was previously an operations associate at Compound. He holds a BA in Financial Economics and Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
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.
Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon is General counsel at Paradigm and former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. She previously worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Rahul Maganti
Rahul Maganti is the head of product at Wormhole, having previously been Vice President at Jump Crypto, and he has also worked at Arbitrum and Pantera Capital. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter is the Policy Director at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he was the Director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Allison Herren Lee. Justin also served as Chief Policy Advisor and Special Counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and General Counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey. He has also worked as a consultant in private practice, focusing on fintech and smaller technology companies. To begin his career, Justin was a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Ishanee Nagpurkar
Ishanee Nagpurkar is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an investor at IOSG Ventures. Previously, she worked as an investment analyst at TRIVE. She graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Yu Feng
Yu Feng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He cofounded Veridise and Nubit. Professor Feng has been recognized with prestigious academic awards for his contributions to the field, including best paper awards from top formal methods (PLDI’18, PLDI’22), software engineering (ASE’20), and HCI (CHI’21). He is also the recipient of Google Faculty award, Ethereum Academic award, and many others.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg is the Chief Technology Officer of DLC.Link. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.