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Jayant Ramanand is the co-founder of MANTRA and was responsible for institutional sales at Hex Trust.
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John Patrick Mullin
John Patrick Mullin is the co-founder and CEO of MANTRA, a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Tongji University, and a strategic advisor to HeliSwap. He holds a dual Master's degree in Management and Economics from the European Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany and Tongji University, respectively.

Alessio Quaglini
Alessio Quaglini is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hex Trust and Clearpool. He holds a degree in Quantitative Finance from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA.

Rafal Czerniawski
Rafal Czerniawski is the Co-founder of Hex Trust. After spending most of his working life building technology in Investment Banks, he co-founded IC STUDIO, where he applies his passion for technology and business to develop new technology start-up ventures.

Rodrigo Sottomayor
Rodrigo Sottomayor is the Chief of Staff of MANTRA, formerly the Chief of Staff and Ecosystem Leader of PrivateAI and the Senior Chief Recruitment Officer of Protocol Labs. He graduated from European universities and Harvard Business School in the United States.

Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.

Chiro Hiro
Chiro Hiro is the founder of Orochi Network and previously he was the founder of Duelist King. He graduated from Da Nang University of Science and Technology.

Ekin Gultepe
Ekin Gultepe is the Managing Director of MANTRA. He graduated from Northeastern University

Nicholas Krapels
Nicholas Krapels is MANTRA's Chief Strategy Officer and an American author, educator and entrepreneur who has been permanently based in China since 2011. He attended Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, specializing in insurance, business strategy and corporate risk assessment, and received his PhD from East China Normal University.

Chee Boon Lim
Chee Boon Lim is the finance director of Tokka Labs and previously he was the Finance Director of Hex Trust. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Kate Kim
Kate Kim is currently responsible for business development and strategy at MANTRA. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Kate Kim is a graduate of the University of Southern California.