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Sean (Sichao) Yang is Head of technology at Oort and a managing partner at Aves Lair. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Max Li
Max (Chong) Li is the founder and CEO of Oort, a venture partner at Aves Lair and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University. Prior to that, he worked at Qualcomm Research on 4G LTE and 5G system design. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Michael A. Robinson
Michael A. Robinson is the Foundation chairman of Oort and co-founder and managing partner of Aves Lair. He graduated from Virginia Tech.
James Cheng
James Cheng is the Chief Financial Officer of Canaan. His resume includes vice president of Zhaopin Recruitment, financial director of Lenovo China and Asia Pacific, senior sales financial director of Nokia China, and demand planning manager of Effem Foods Beijing (Mars Inc.).
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
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.
Peter Piekarczyk
Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dafu Gao
Dafu Gao is a partner at OnePiece Labs. He graduated from Lehigh University and holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Alexis Masseron
Alexis Masseron is the Co-founder and CEO of Atlendis Labs. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at ConsenSys. His educational background includes ESME and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Jane Lippencott
Jane Lippencott is a partner at a16z Crypto, she was previously a partner at Winklevoss Capital and also worked at Distributed Global.