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Stephanie Vaughan is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Veda and the co-founder and Managing Partner of Seven Seas Capital. Previously, she was the Head of Operations at Sommelier. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds an MBA from Columbia University.
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Joseph Terrigno
Joseph Terrigno is the co-founder of Veda and the co-founder and Chief Technology officer of Seven Seas Capital. He graduated from Columbia University and Fordham University.
Sunand Raghupathi
Sunand Raghupathi, co-founder and CEO of Seven Seas Capital, was previously head of research and development at Sommelier. He graduated from Fordham College and Columbia University.
Kristi Põldsam
Kristi Poldsam is co-founder of Sommelier Finance, iqlusion and Seven Seas Capital. Before beginning her journey as a blochcain founder, she built out a decade long career in the world of traditional finance, serving as a Merril Lynch analyst, Investment Banker at Rodman & Renshaw and as a Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald. She is a classically trained economist, earning a degree at Harvard before pursuing her Masters in computer science. Kristi is passionate about enabling more people around the world to leverage the expertise of finance professionals while also benefiting from the transparency and self-custody that blockchains allow. She's also keen on making decentralized finance about more than just crypto - to move beyond the experimental phase of crypto-native impact towards the real world impact, bringing real-world assets onto these new financial rails.
Unique Divine
Unique is co-founder and Lead Software Engineer at Nibiru Chain, a layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos. Prior to Nibiru, he was part of the Sommelier Protocol team, where he was able to leverage his skills in Golang, Cosmos SDK, Python, Solidity, TypeScript, and Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he was a data scientist at IBM. Unique studied at Columbia University and has a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics.
Taariq Lewis
Taariq Lewis is the CEO and founder of VolumeFi, a cross-chain product lab that is debuting their cross-chain messaging layer, Paloma (palomachain.com). He was also the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol with Zaki Manian and Jack Zampolin and led product management and product marketing for Sommelier. He is a serial entrepreneur who has also founded several successful fintech and blockchain products - Promise, Aquila, and SericaPay. Taariq also helped bring Bitcoin and blockchain engineering to a global audience with numerous educational events.
Jason
Jason is the Chief Financial Officer at Nakamoto Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He previously served as the Finance Director at a leading startup technology company.
Emily Hsia
Emily Hsia is the Co-Founder & CTO of Shadow. Presively she worked at Goldfinch and Airbnb. She graduated from Columbia University.
Charles Cheng
Charles Cheng is the Co-Founder at Euterpe. He also is the Co-founder & CFO at BCE.IO. Charles Cheng graduated from Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School.
Zeyu Liu
Zeyu Liu is co-founder of Genitive Network. He is a doctoral student at Yale University, holds a master's degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from UCLA.
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.