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Tracy Wang is the head of special projects at Framework Ventures and was previously an associate managing editor at CoinDesk and a reporter for Forbes. She graduated from Yale University in economics.
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Michael Anderson
Michael Anderson is a co-founder of Framework Ventures. He has a wide range of experience in the technology sector, having previously been a product manager at Snap Inc. and Dropbox, and a business strategy and operations specialist at an unnamed company. He has also co-founded Hashletes, a startup in the sports and entertainment industry. Anderson holds an economics degree from Yale University.
Ellie Hirschhorn
Ellie Hirschhorn is the chief operating officer and president of media at CoinDesk, and previously was Travelzoo's U.S. general manager. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale University.
Felipe Montealegre
Felipe Montealegre is CIO and co-founder of Theia and previously was Vice President of Declaration Partners. He graduated from Yale University.
Alec Taggart
Alec Taggart is a professional in the fields of venture capital, product development, and investing. He served as a Venture Partner at Mirana Ventures and Founding Partner at Windranger Labs, where he is responsible for product strategy, partnerships, and incubation. Prior to this, Taggart worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Framework Ventures and held various leadership roles in the fintech industry, including at Prosper Marketplace and EY. He has a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.
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.
Michael Casey
Michael Casey is President of DAIS Global and was previously Chief Content Officer of CoinDesk and co-founder and CEO of Streambed Media. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs. Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna. Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media. Casey owns a small amount of bitcoin.
Jake Schwartz
Jake Schwartz is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
Kai Chen
Kai Chen is Head of Ecosystem at Mode and was previously Head of DeFi at BNB Chain and a McKinsey analyst.
Andrew Israel
Andrew Israel is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.