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Greg Kidd is Founder of Hard Yaka, GlobaliD, Shift Payments and 3taps.com, Message.me. First Round Investor of Twitter, Senior Analyst Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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Warren Paul Anderson
Warren Paul Anderson is Co-founder & CEO at Exocore and former CEO at Findora. He previously co-founded four startups, two of which shut down, and two were acquired.
Geoff Hamilton
Geoff Hamilton is currently the Investment Partner at Variant Fund. He graduated from Harvard University.
Cully Cavness
Cully Cavness is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Crusoe Energy. He was educated at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is the General Counsel of Anchorage and a member of the board of directors of the Blockchain Association. She previously served as a partner and head of regulation and policy at Bain Capital Crypto and deputy general counsel and compliance officer at Worldcoin. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego and Yale University.
Chris Hofmann
Chris Hofmann was previously a partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He first became interested in cryptocurrencies in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Phil Chang
Phil Chang is the Deputy General Counsel at Solana and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Boston College.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Amir Mehrbakhsh
Amir Mehrbakhsh is Head of Marketing at Walrus and previously worked at Sui, Celo, and Ripple.
Anthony Paquette
Anthony Paquette is the Chief Financial Officer of Galaxy and previously was the Chief Financial Officer of Point72.
Eddie Alfred
Eddie Alfred is the co-founder of Digital Asset and he graduated from Harvard University.
