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Sid Viswanath is Blockworks Chief Operating Officer and was previously Head of Operations and strategy at Kraken. He graduated from Columbia Business School in the United States and the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.
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Richard Kim
Richard Kim is the founder of Zero Edge and was previously a general partner at Galaxy Interactive. Richard’s experience spans investing, trading, law, finance, management and strategy. He joined Galaxy as COO in May 2018, before joining Galaxy Interactive in Dec 2018. Prior to Galaxy, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18. From 2012-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, and prior to that was the COO of J.P. Morgan’s electronic trading franchise for FX/EM. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a derivatives and regulation attorney at J.P. Morgan. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group. Richard also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.
Nelson Minier
Nelson Minier is Head of OTC and Trading at Kraken and has nearly 20 years of experience running trading desks at top firms including Credit Suisse, jpmorgan Chase, Citibank, UBS and Morgan Stanley. In addition to trading digital assets, Nelson previously traded credit derivatives, sovereign bonds, and corporate bonds in the emerging markets and high yield space.
Jane He
Jane He is the Chief Business Officer of AlterMe AI and previously the Executive Director of CTH, Fundamental Labs, and IDEG. She previously worked at jpmorgan Chase. She graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and received a master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.
Alex Witt
Alex Witt is a general Partner at Verda Ventures and was previously CFO of Celo, co-founder and CFO of SWFT Blockchain, and an analyst at Goldman Sachs. He holds a master's degree in finance from Tsinghua University.
Karl-Martin Ahrend
Karl-Martin Ahrend is the Co-Founder of Web3 Studios. Focusing on M&A and capital raising in the Web3 space.
Darryl Wang
Darryl is currently a co-founder of Tangent and a veteran Web 3 Angel. Previously, he was a Partner at DeFiance Capital, where he worked with over 30 portfolio companies to go to market. He then left to operate Tangent, a founders-first crypto-native angel collective. Before entering the crypto space, Darryl was an Investment Banker at J.P. Morgan and he graduated from the London School of Economics with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance.
Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Kevin Zhang
Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Max Crown
Max Crown is CoFounder and Chief Finance Officer at MoonPay. Max started his career in 2004 with Mercedes-Benz McLaren, and has garnered experience across various finance, operations, and risk positions for over a decade and a half, spanning three distinct nations. Between 2008 and 2010, he took on the mantle of CFO for a high-end real estate firm operating in both London and Brazil, overseeing the entirety of its financial, tax, and regulatory frameworks. On the academic front, Max completed his Bachelor of Business Studies from City University, London in 2004, followed by a Master of Finance from London Business School in 2009. He later received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in 2014.