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Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Will Wang
Will Wang is a Founding Partner at TKX Capital, a full-service crypto investment bank in primary and secondary markets. Prior to this, he was the Head of Investment and Business Development at Huobi North America, a leading global crypto trading exchange.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta previously served as Executive Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase and also served as Vice President of Engineering at Lyft. He is a graduate of the University of Mumbai and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Can Sun
Can Sun is co-founder and Head of Legal at Backpack Exchange and was previously General Counsel at FTX. Previously, he was the General Counsel at FTX. Can holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University
Gajesh Naik
Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.
Niraj Pant
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.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is CEO of Borderless and previously was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fortress Trust Company and Chief Product Officer of Prime Trust. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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.
Nicholas Ting
Nicholas Ting is COO of Backpack and previously was Chief Strategy Officer of Genesis Block. He graduated from the American University in Bulgaria.
Nicholas Garcia
Nicholas Garcia is founder and CEO of Fortunafi and founder and partner of Space Whale Capital. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.