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Sebastian Quinn is the founder of Yesports, an entrepreneur driving Web3 adoption, and a former lawyer.
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Tharusha Jayasena
Tharusha Jayasena is the chief scientific officer of AxonDAO and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Sasha MacKinnon
Sasha MacKinnon is the founder of Mino Games. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, founded Bit Battalion, and worked as a Technical Assistant to the CEO at Zynga.
Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Marcus Lim
Marcus Lim is the founder and CEO of PEXX and was previously the founder and CEO of Zipmex. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Brendan Wong
Brendan Wong is the co-founder of Avocado Guild and was previously the co-founder of SnowPak. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Jake Fitzgerald
Jake Fitzgerald is the co-founder and Head of Product at Lyra, having previously worked at AirTree Ventures and Meta. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and New York University in the United States.
David Nichols
David Nichols is co-founder and Chief risk Officer of Stables. He graduated from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
William Wu
William Wu is the Co-CEO of Catheon Gaming. Previously, he was an investment professional at Oaktree Capital Management in Hong Kong, focusing on special situations and distressed private equity opportunities, as well as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Vincent Shang
Vincent Shang is a Partner at AC Capital where he has extensive experience in project incubation, community marketing and business development and compliance. Vincent Shang graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.