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Ryan Barney is a partner at Pantera Capital and was previously a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He graduated from Boston College.
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Kerry Wong
Kerry Wong is head of investor relations at Pantera Capital and was previously head of investor relations at Scalar Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Jasper Lewitton
As President of Pantera, Jasper drives and oversees the strategic vision, direction, and operational management of the firm. He has over twenty years of leadership experience across Global Investment Management firms. For close to a decade, he served as Business Unit Head and Senior Leader at Bridgewater Associates, where he managed and transformed the Investment, Client, and Operational areas of the firm. Prior to Bridgewater, Jasper held several senior strategy and operational roles, including Global Head of Strategy at UBS, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at Citigroup, and COO of Citigroup's Real Estate private equity business. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has worked in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jasper has a LLM from the University of Cambridge and Finance, Economics, and Law degrees from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he grew up.
Shimon Lazarov
As Global Head of Growth at OKX, Shimon Lazarov oversees the company's international user acquisition and retention. He is responsible for a range of marketing channels, including paid, organic, out of home, TV, and affiliates, among others. Prior to OKX, Shimon was Head of Growth at Kraken, CEO of LiveCoach, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BS in biology and business administration from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Nihal Maunder
Nihal Maunder is an investor at Pantera Capital and a former product and growth manager at 0x Labs. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jacob Kobler
Jacob Kobler is Vice President of Request Finance and co-founder of Consola. Jacob has worked at Bitpanda and the Boston Consulting Group.
York Zhu
Yuhe Zhu is a senior investment analyst at BAI Capital and head of investment at Generative Ventures, and previously worked at Yinuo Angel Fund.
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.
Aaron Schnarch
Aaron Schnarch is Anchorage's chief operating officer and was previously CEO of Coinbase Custody. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mohammad Shaikh
Mohammad Shaikh is co-founder and CEO of Aptos and former director of Strategy at ConsenSys. Shaikh has also worked at Meta, The Boston Consulting Group, and BlackRock. Mohammad holds an MBA from the University of Rochester - Simon Business School and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Economics, and Accounting from Hunter College.
Jack Lu
Jack Lu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Magic Eden. He is of Chinese descent and is from Australia.