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Viraj Phanse is the co-founder and CEO of Blockfenders. He previously held product management roles at AWS, INSZoom, and Oracle. He also led global strategic partnerships at Aerospike and was the head of digital transformation, product strategy, and business development at Persistent Systems. He has an MBA from UC Berkeley, a Master of Science in Computer Science from UCLA, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pune.
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Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Jon Jones
Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.
Bob Xu
Bob Xu is the founder of Questflow and was previously Director of Product Management for Himalaya. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
Purshotam Lalwani
Purshotam Lalwani is the chief Engineering lead at Blockfenders and the chief Blockchain Officer at Planck, who also previously worked at IBM. Purshotam Lalwani graduated from Udaipur College of Technology and Engineering.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is the founder of Summit Labs and was previously a research data engineer at Polychain Capital. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in data science.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent
Yijia Chen
Yijia previously led the backend team of Treelab, a Sequoia-backed Series A company. He is now founding Curio, where he is spearheading the development of a new generation of crypto-powered games with massive social UGC.