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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.
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Akilesh Potti
Akilesh Potti is the Co-founder of Ritual. Presively he was Partner at Polychain, ML at Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading at Goldman, ML Research at {MIT, Cornell}.
Ben Perszyk
Ben Perszyk is Head of Ecosystem at Ritual and was previously Chief Strategy Officer at SHRAPNEL and a partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he worked as a Product Specialist at Airbnb, collaborating with Data Science, Design, and Development teams to analyze product data and enhance user experience.
Anish Agnihotri
Anish Agnihotri is a founding member of Ritual and an independent Researcher at MEV. Previously, he was a researcher at Paradigm, built performant trading systems at Polychain Capital, and expanded test automation at 1Password.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
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.
Susmit Lavania
Susmit Lavania is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Huddle01.
Jacob Phillips
Jacob Phillips is a co-founder of Lombard and was previously head of Operations at Perennial and a researcher at Polychain Capital. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University.
Luke Pearson
Luke Pearson is a research cryptographer at Polychain Capital, specializing in blockchain protocols. He works on the technical aspects of projects and protocols related to the next generation of technology, with expertise in ECC, protocol design, smart contract development, decentralized finance, and more. Previously, he worked as a cryptographer at the Dusk Foundation, researching decentralized communication technology. He received his education in Applied Mathematics from the University of Groningen.
Jack Kearney
Jack Kearney is the co-founder of Turnkey and previously served as CTO of Polychain. He graduated from Oberlin College.
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is the founder of Summit Labs and was previously a research data engineer at Polychain Capital. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in data science.