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Investor at BlockTower Capital; Formerly Portfolio Manager, Trader at Goldman Sachs; Engineering at University of Illinois; Japan, Korea, US, Singapore; Trilingual. Having been raised, educated, and working in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Singapore and grown trilingual, Steve has worked as a investment director and Head of Asia in BlockTower Capital to contribute to the firm's global investment in cryptoasset and blockchain industry and lead its Asia business. Before BlockTower Capital, Steve worked as front, middle, back office roles in Tokyo and Singapore with Goldman Sachs. Before his career in financial industry, Steve worked as a research engineer in the U.S. working with U.S. government and world's leading semiconductor companies after he majored in Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Matthew Goetz
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Brian Limiardi
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Yuri Mushkin
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Mothusi Majinda
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Sung Cho
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Rick Schonberg
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Niraj Pant
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Kevin Lehtiniitty
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Hart Lambur
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Peter Piekarczyk
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