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Rituraj Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Sonic Wallet. He has an undergrad in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, New York. He started his career building large-scale distributed cloud systems at Microsoft Azure and got intrigued into working on blockchain. After Microsoft, He worked as Senior Engineer at Zenefits where he built Zenefits Payroll and Zenefits International Contractor Payments - the systems process billions of dollars in transactions. Later, he joined WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Facebook) where he worked on building WhatsApp Payments that provided financial services to hundreds of million people across the globe.
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Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu is the founder of Web3 Chief of Staff and was previously the chief of staff of Metamask. She graduated from Columbia University.
Richard Kim
Richard Kim is the founder of Zero Edge and was previously a general partner at Galaxy Interactive. Richard’s experience spans investing, trading, law, finance, management and strategy. He joined Galaxy as COO in May 2018, before joining Galaxy Interactive in Dec 2018. Prior to Galaxy, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18. From 2012-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, and prior to that was the COO of J.P. Morgan’s electronic trading franchise for FX/EM. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a derivatives and regulation attorney at J.P. Morgan. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group. Richard also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.
Sam Peurifoy
Sam Peurifoy is a Partner and the Head of Interactive at Hivemind. In this capacity, Sam leads Hivemind's gaming and metaverse investments, venture pipeline, and early-stage token deals. In parallel with Hivemind, Sam is the CEO of Playground Labs, a sister organization that houses talented engineers to build protocols that drive the economic engine of the web3 metaverse. Sam is a founding member and participant of multiple DAOs and has a direct hand in shaping protocol design across myriad ventures. Prior to Hivemind and Playground Labs, Sam was the Director of Finance at Floating Point Group, a full-service institutional cryptocurrency trading and custody services provider. He's held positions within Goldman Sachs' Global Investment Research division with a focus on Clean Tech and has authored dozens of works across finance and the sciences. He has additionally authored patents in both the energy and nanomaterials sectors. Sam holds a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Miami.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.
Alan Konevsky
Alan Konevsky is the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer at tZERO. Previously held senior roles at Mastercard, Goldman Sachs.
Tony Zhang
Tony Zhang is a consultant at Ton.AI and previously co-founder and CEO of Footprint Analytics, having worked at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and other financial firms. Tony received his Master's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University from 1994 to 1996.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon is General counsel at Paradigm and former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. She previously worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Rob Hadick
Rob Hadick is a partner at Dragonfly, having previously held positions at GoldenTree, Goldman Sachs, and others.
Frank Fan
Frank Fan is the Partner at Arcane Group.Frank recently worked in leadership roles at Huobi exchange. He also has more than a decade of experience in fintech and consulting roles at Microsoft and AXA. Frank holds an MSc from Columbia University and an MBA from Tsinghua University.
Richard Rosenblum
Rich Rosenblum is the former Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GSR, leading the group in strategic initiatives and growth. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 11 years between New York and London in commodities trading as a Managing Director and Global Head of Crude Oil and Derivatives Trading. Before joining GSR, he worked on the buy-side, managing energy trading teams at two New York-based hedge funds. Rich holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Columbia University.