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Brian O'Hagan was previously Head of Brand Marketing at Sorare and CMO at Coinhouse, and was responsible for Airbnb's commercial and public relations in Europe. He holds an MBA from Sciences Po in Paris, France.
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Jess Zhang
Jess Zhang is the Co-founder & CEO at Blockus.Presively, She worked as Data Scientist at Roblox and Airbnb.Jess Zhang graduated from University of Waterloo, Canada.
Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. He founded the company, which has become one of the largest in the Bitcoin space, in June 2012. He is also the co-founder of GiveCrypto, working to build an open financial system for the world. Before founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at AirBNB from 2011 to 2012. He had also previously founded UniversityTutory.com and worked as a software engineer at CarWoo.com.
Alexander Leishman
Alexander Leishman is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer at River Financial. He brings his expertise in software engineering, information security, and Bitcoin to River, where he is responsible for investor relations, corporate strategy, and engineering. Prior to co-founding River Financial, Alexander worked on the investment and engineering teams at Polychain Capital and Polychain Labs, focusing on Bitcoin-related venture investments. He has also served as an engineer at Airbnb's security team, a management consultant for Deloitte, and was an early engineer at Maicoin, Taiwan's largest digital asset exchange. Mr. Leishman holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he assisted in teaching the first Bitcoin class under Professor Dan Boneh.
William Wolf
William Wolf is the former Partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he was responsible for Payment-related Development at Airbnb as a Founding Team Member at Tilt.com, as a Technical Director; as a Senior Software Developer at Siteworx, managing Technical Decisions, Implementation, Resource Cooperation and Strategy for each Project; at Rackspace to establish Webmail.us Email Hosting Platform. He has over a decade of experience building high-quality products and extensive experience in Distributed Systems and Team Management.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn. Hoffman is currently a Partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, a co-founder of Inflection AI, and a board member at Microsoft. Previously, he served on the boards of Blockstream and OpenAI.
Éric Larchevêque
Eric Larchev¨ºque is a co-founder of Ledger, a Bitcoin security company. He initially founded La Maison du Bitcoin, which merged with BTChip and Chronocoin in 2014 to become Ledger. He stores more than 1,000 bitcoins on his personal Ledger Nano. As a serial entrepreneur since 1996, Eric has founded several companies in various sectors across Europe. In 2013, he discovered Bitcoin and the blockchain technology, which he saw as the fourth industrial revolution. He then opened La Maison du Bitcoin, the French Bitcoin Center, before co-founding Ledger with the ambition to create the next European technological giant
Chris Lehane
Chris Lehane is the Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI. Prior to this, he was an Operating Partner at Haun Ventures and Senior Vice President of Policy & Communications at Airbnb. He also served as the Press Secretary to the Vice President of the United States and Special Assistant to the President. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard University.
Nicolas Julia
Nicolas Julia is Co-Founder and CEO of Sorare, the Global Fantasy Football Game where you can trade and collect NFTs. In 2015, he dedicated his career to Blockchain, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, an $8M VC-backed blockchain company. Additionally, Nicolas hosts the Crypto-goods Club meetup, a place of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts. He believes that Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.
Thomas Klocanas
Thomas Klocanas is the General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.
Marie-Amélie Siegrist
Marie-Amelie Siegrist is the head of marketing at Kiln and previously worked at Airbnb. She graduated from Sogang University and Nantes School of Economics and Management in France.
