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Shahan Khatchadourian is PhD. Protocol engineering, co-founder of PegaSys, the ConsenSys protocol engineering group that develops next generation secure, scalable enterprise-grade blockchain platforms. Shahan is an experienced software developer and researcher with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Drawing on decades of startup, industry, and domain experience, Shahan focuses on bridging enterprise technology stacks, such as relational and graph databases, with blockchain paradigms including decentralization, cryptography, and virtual computing.
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John Adler
John Adler is the Co-Founder & Chief Research Officer at Celestia and Co-Founder & ex-CTO of Fuel. He is the creator of Optimistic Rollups and a former Scalability Fellow at ConsenSys.
Terry Rossi
Terry Rossi is the Co-Founder & CEO at Woah. Previously, he was the investment director of Blockchange Ventures, a founding team member of Tachyon Accelerator, and an investment analyst at ConsenSys. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Princeton University.
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.
Zeus Chen
Zeus graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada and obtained an MBA from the University of Oxford in the UK. In the past two decades, he has worked in several global investment banks and led a number of cross-border investment and M&A businesses. In addition, he has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. In 2022, he founded the blockchain vending machine project Stealth Startup, which mainly serves the Southeast Asian market.
Jason Fung
Jason Fung is the CEO of Meta0 and the former Global Head of Gaming at TikTok.
Megha Bambra
Megha Bambra is the co-founder and CTO of Rails and previously was the co-founder and CTO of BlockEQ. She graduated from the University of Toronto.
Rahul Bishnoi
Rahul Bishnoi is an investor at Brevan Howard Digital, previously he was a junior partner at Dragonfly's Liquid Fund and a blockchain engineer at Energy Web\n. He is a graduate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIITH), Hyderabad.
Andy (Jingwei) Zhao
Andy (Jingwei) Zhao is the Head of Product at VirgoCX. In 2016, Andy worked as an Engineering Trainee at Kunshan Duoling Heavy Machinery Technology. In 2018, Andy worked as a Financial Analyst at Goldenwise Capital Management, where they gained experience in financial analysis.Andy (Jingwei) Zhao earned their Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto, where they studied from 2012 to 2017.
Valeria Kholostenko
Valeria Kholostenko is the head of LBank Labs. In 2017, as the head of development and global community of ConsenSys, she led the cooperation between Ethereum and international organizations. She has also served as the chief marketing officer of LUKSO, Astar Network, Reef Finance and other projects.
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.