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Nicola Greco is Director of research at Protocol Labs and a PhD student (sabbatical) at MIT, supervised by Tim Berners-Lee. He previously worked at the Berkman Center, Mozilla, and University College London.
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João Fiadeiro
João Fiadeiro is the Chief Product Officer of Catena Labs and previously worked at Jump Crypto and Protocol Labs. He holds a Master's degree in Internet Social Sciences from the University of Oxford.
Max Resnick
Max Resnick is currently a technologist at Anza. He previously worked at ConsenSys and has extensive experience in developing within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.
Pierre Samaties
Pierre Samaties is Chief Business Officer at DFINITY. He was the former Partner at Roland Berger leading the Global Digital Assets, Web3 and Metaverse practice and the CEO of energy and innovation specialist RWE Middle East.
Ben Caselin
Ben Caselin is chief marketing officer at VALR and was previously vice president and chief strategy officer at MaskEX and vice president at AAX.
Nitya Subramanian
Nitya Subramanian is the founder of Capsule. He was the former product lead of Celo. Nitya Subramanian graduated from MIT.
Oliver Sleafer
Oliver Sleafer is CFO of Backpack and previously served as Head of liquidity Management for Asia Pacific at Stripe. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Westminster.
Paul Grewal
Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.