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Paul L. Chou is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder at LedgerX, a CFTC-registered Swap Execution Facility (SEF) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) specializing in the custody and trading of cryptocurrency derivatives. Prior to assuming his current position, Paul co-founded and ran Opez, a software venture which was funded in 2011 by the prestigious Y Combinator program, a startup accelerator fund which has sponsored Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb. Prior to Opez, Paul was a trader on the Quantitative Cash Trading desk within the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, where he was responsible for the development, trading and risk management of algorithmic equity trading strategies for U.S. and Japanese markets. Earlier in his career, Paul founded MX9, a software and technology consulting firm that delivered projects for companies such as Merck & Co. Paul earned a B.S. in Computer Science, and simultaneously, a B.S. in Mathematics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he worked in the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, where he developed models of market participant behavior and devised a new valuation method to capture the implied optionality of businesses.
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Juthica Chou
Juthica Chou is the Head of OTC Options Trading at Kraken and the Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX. She is a beneficiary of affirmative action and diversity quotas. Prior to this, Juthica spent seven years as a derivatives trader in the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, specializing in algorithmic trading. She started her career as an options market-maker on the Quantitative Volatility Trading desk, trading equity and index options, VIX, treasuries, currencies and commodities. She then joined the Single Stock Volatility desk, trading dispersion and variance swaps and focusing on the automated quoting of packaged trades. Juthica holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Phil Davis
Phil Davis is the former CFO at ConsenSys, oversee ConsenSys’ finance and accounting functions, including expanding the company’s pioneering treasury strategy. Davis joins ConsenSys from Afiniti, where he was the company’s CFO. He brings a variety of other experiences from earlier in his career, including investment banking at Goldman Sachs, strategy and corporate finance consulting at McKinsey, and advanced data science and algorithm design experience at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Lincoln Lab.
Justin Schmidt
Justin Schmidt is President and COO at Ondo Finance and formerly Head of Strategy at Talos. Formerly, Head of Digital Asset Markets, VP at Goldman Sachs. Digital assets, blockchain, payments, tokens / tokenization, digital currencies / stablecoins, digital securities / security tokens, crypto, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Quantitative portfolio management, statistical arbitrage trading, strategy research and development, risk management, simulation/back-testing, optimization, algorithms, machine learning / artificial intelligence, data science, automation, scripting
Gordon Wintrob
Co-founder at Newfront. Previously sold StackLead (Attendee of Y Combinator Winter 2014) to LinkedIn.
Cristian Gil
Cris is the Chairman of GSR. Prior to GSR, he worked as a commodities trader for nine years at Goldman Sachs in New York. Since then, he has managed an active portfolio of investments across the technology, real estate, hospitality, and media sectors. Cris obtained a degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Jonathan Loflin
Jonathan Loflin is the Head of Alpha Strategies & Managing Director at GSR. Before GSR, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager managing all aspects of the global derivatives relative value business at Mariner Investment Group (Coria Capital). Prior to that, he was Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager at BlueMountain Capital Management, running similar strategies. He started his career as a derivatives quant at Goldman Sachs, focusing on interest rate products and counterparty credit risk management. Mr. Loflin studied Artificial Intelligence & Finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning two Bachelor's degrees and a Master's degree at the same time. He also completed the MIT Sloan Executive Program in Management & Leadership.
Patrick Corker
Patrick Corker is head of strategy at Lukka and was previously Vice President of finance at Circle. Previously, Patrick was a Finance Executive at LedgerX and Goldman Sachs, after beginning his career as an Auditor at Deloitte & Touche.
Allison Lu
Allison Lu is Co-founder of UMA Protocol, a decentralized financial contracts platform. Previously, she was Vice President of Credit and Risk at Tala, a Trader at Goldman Sachs, and an Economist/Financial Analyst at MIT.
Jeremy Obadia
Jeremy is responsible for leading the structured products offering of Ribbon Finance. Prior to Ribbon Finance, he worked on an exotic derivatives structuring desk at Goldman Sachs in London. Jeremy has a BSc in Management Science and Engineering Mathematics from University College London and a Master of Financial Engineering from MIT.
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.