Ryan Salame

Overview

Details

Ryan Salame was previously co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, head of OTC Asia Pacific at Alameda Research, and Senior Tax Associate at EY.

Work Experience

Circle

FTX

Alameda Research

Education Experience

Georgetown University

Relevance Person

Wyatt Lonergan

Wyatt Lonergan is a former head of Circle Ventures and was a senior associate on the Seedinvest investment team.

Dante Disparte

Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.

Rashid Ajami

Rashid Ajami is the co-founder of Metropolis and previously the founder of B2B2C White Label and community platform Connectt. He graduated from Georgetown University.

Jeremy Allaire

Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to leverage the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Previously, Mr. Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, the US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech. Mr. Allaire provides his expertise and policy recommendations at the highest levels of financial institutions in the US, UK, and Europe.

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

Charles Moran

Charles Moran is the COO of North Island Ventures. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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.

Joshua Lim

Joshua Lim is the co-founder of Arbelos and previously Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.

Noah Dummett

Noah Dummett is Co-Founder of Shuffle. Previously OTC at Alameda Research, Head of Client Relations at HiveEx.com, Client Support Specialist at BitMEX.