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Carl Dong is the founder of Obscura VPN and was previously a software development engineer for Chaincode Labs and Blockstream. He is a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jeff Boortz
Jeff Boortz is Blockstream's Chief Product Officer, responsible for managing the Blockstream product portfolio, and has more than 20 years of product management and IT experience. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Sam Fang
Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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.
Pieter Wuille
Peter Wuille is a Bitcoin Core developer and the co-founder of Blockstream. He is ranked second in terms of commits to Bitcoin Core and is responsible for important improvements to Bitcoin such as BIP 66, libsecp256k1, and Segregated Witness. His programming languages include C++, C, Perl, Java, Bash, (PG)SQL, Haskell, OCaml, and PHP. He is also skilled in system administration, including Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and LDAP. His specialties include programming languages, compilers, and cryptography.
Erik Svenson
Erik Svenson is the co-founder, President, and CFO of Blockstream. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading strategies, operations, and fundraising in his previous roles. He spent 10 years in the traditional finance industry in leading roles, followed by another decade as a co-founder and consultant for rapidly growing technology startups. Erik has a BA from Stanford and is a former CFA charterholder.
Matt Storus
Matt Storus is Head of design at Superstate and previously was Director of product design at Coinbase and head of design at Earn.com. He has a master's degree in architecture from Harvard.
Steven Willinger
Steven Willinger is the Partner of Blockchain Builders Fund. Presively he was Ventures Lead at Coinbase. Product Management at Blockstream. GTM at Google. Steven Willinger graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Christian Decker
Christian Decker is the Lead Engineer at Blockstream. Christian is a Bitcoin enthusiast from the very beginning, back in 2009. He got involved in the, then small, community and starting to contribute. In 2012 he was offered a PhD Candidate position in the Distributed Computing Group at ETH Zurich. The goal of his research is to improve the understanding of the underlying consensus mechanisms and to enable the network to scale with the increasing demands. The result was the world’s first PhD dissertation about Bitcoin and the creation of a number of protocols including PeerCensus and Duplex Micropayment Channels.
Zach Segal
Zach Segal is Head of Listings at Coinbase, founder of blockchain content site Blockchain Curated, and formerly of Earn.com.
Akash Khosla
Akash Khosla is the Co-Founder at Evmos, interested in biohacks, design, computers, cryptographic guarantees and data. Previously built protocols at Chain Inc. and did engineering at Earn.com. A former shell of UC Berkeley EECS, Blockchain at Berkeley co-founder.
