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Paul Brodsky is Partner at Pantera Capital. Before working with Pantera, Paul had a fourteen year career on Wall Street as an option and CMO trader at Kidder Peabody and Drexel Lambert. He subsequently spent seventeen years as a founder and portfolio manager for Spyglass Capital and QB Asset Management, and then consulted investors on their macro asset allocation process, producing the widely read MAI letter. Paul joined Pantera in October 2017.
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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.
Franklin Bi
Franklin Bi is a General Partner at Pantera Capital. Formerly, Blockchain & Crypto Strategy Lead at JPMorgan, Quorum '15-'18. spotting the inevitable. Franklin serves as Pantera’s Director of Platform, focused on supporting and accelerating the firm’s portfolio companies. He was previously Vice President and Blockchain / Crypto Strategy Lead at J.P. Morgan, as a founding member of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in 2015. He previously launched a blockchain-focused strategy consulting firm, as Founding Partner at Scale8 Partners and Associate Director at Wachsman. Franklin's previous experience includes corporate strategy and development at J.P. Morgan, early-stage investing at ff Venture Capital, and advising founders at Techstars. Franklin graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and concentrations in Finance, Management, and Entrepreneurship.
Grace Wang
Grace Wang is a senior software engineer at World. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked in software development before cofounding Salsa in 2022.
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.
Ankit Wadhwa
Ankit Wadhwa is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rario. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Yuan Han Li
Yuan Han Li is a Principal at Blockchain Capital. He joined the firm in March of 2021. Yuan conducts investment diligence and also supports portfolio companies and DAOs. Prior to Blockchain Capital, Yuan was the Co-President of Penn Blockchain—one of the world’s largest student-run blockchain organizations. While there, Yuan led all of Penn Blockchain’s governance activities in addition to overseeing recruiting and business development. Yuan studied Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chose to withdraw in his final year to commit his time fully to crypto. In his spare time, Yuan enjoys cooking, skiing, playing strategy games, and listening to classical music.
Alfredo Terrero
Alfredo Terrero is the Co-Founder and COO of IntoTheBlock. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Alejo Pinto
Alejo Pinto is the founder of Pontem Network and previously worked at BlockFi. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Katherine Minarik
Katherine Minarik is chief legal officer at Uniswap, and previously she was vice President of Legal at Coinbase. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.