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Jiani Chen is a partner at Protagonist and head of growth at Solana Foundation. She has also invested in projects such as RedStone, Movement, Solayer, and Fhenix. She graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
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Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Alex Suvorov
Alex Suvorov is the co-founder and lead developer of RedStone and the founder of codenplay.io. He has previously worked at Alice. He graduated from the University of Warsaw.
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Terence Kwok
Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol and was previously the founder of Tink Labs.
Zack Seward
Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Nick Pann
Nick Pann is a co-founder of Sindri and was previously Vice President of Product at TenantBase. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Alvin Kwock
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder & CEO of OneDegree.Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force, CUHK Business School’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Finance, and a founding member of Innovate for Future. Alvin started his career in J.P. Morgan and spent 11 years there, prior to founding OneDegree. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research.
Anshum Bhambri
Anshum Bhambri is the co-founder of FanCraze. Previously, he worked for six years at bulge-bracket investment banks in New York and London, and was involved in trading derivatives and structured products, as well as providing corporate finance and M&A-related advice to technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, and eBay. Anshum is a graduate of Stanford University and The University of Chicago, and holds degrees in Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, and Business.
Jason Teutsch
Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, a scalable verification solution for blockchains. He has held postdoc positions with Prateek Saxena at NUS, Trent Jaeger at Penn State and Wolfgang Merkle at Universität Heidelberg. Previously he has served as a US Fulbright fellow to Israel and to Hungary. From 2008-2010 he held a research staff position at CCR-La Jolla, and before that he worked at the RAND Corporation. He fulfilled his dissertation research as a CIC Traveling Scholar at the University of Chicago computer science department under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. He earned a PhD in mathematics from Indiana University in 2007, a DM in composition from the IU School of Music in 2004, and a BA in guitar performance and mathematics from Pomona College in 2000.
Emnet Rios
Emnet has over 20 years of experience leading Finance and Operations organizations for both enterprise and early-stage companies. Prior to Digital Asset, she spent over 10 years with the Royal Bank of Scotland, where she was heavily involved in the bank's restructuring efforts following the global financial crisis. Earlier in her career, Emnet spent five years at IBM in various leadership roles at the firm's corporate headquarters in New York.
