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Schwartz is the CEO of Fordefi and has prior experience as the COO of Curv, a crypto security provider which was acquired by Paypal in 2021. He was also previously the VP of Sales at BitGo and the Global Head of New Business Development at Bloomberg Tradebook.
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Lesley O'Neill
Lesley O'Neill is the Chief Compliance Officer of Binance.US and was previously Head of Global Policy at Bloomberg and Chief Compliance Officer at Prove. She graduated from New York University.
Kelly Buzby
Kelly Buzby is Head of operations and communications for Pod Network and previously worked at Bloomberg and a16z. She graduated from New York University.
Joseph W. Bruzzesi
Joseph W. Bruzzesi is a general partner at RW3 Ventures and previously worked at BitGo and Bloomberg.
Mavis Xu
Mavis Xu is a Principal at Mirana Ventures, as well as a Venture Partner for Bybit and BitDAO. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Associate at Kraken Ventures, sourcing investments in FinTech and blockchain/crypto companies, and an Associate at Liberty City Ventures, investing in blockchain technology solutions and companies. Mavis also completed a capstone project with the sustainability team at Bloomberg Associates. She has a background in finance and holds a Bachelor's degree from New York University.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Keon Kim
Keon Kim is a co-founder at 0xPass, a company working to bring frictionless UX to dApps. Previously, he was a software engineer at Uber, where he served as the backend lead for a driver incentive program called "Service Fee Incentives." Keon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University.
John Biggs
John Biggs is Hemi editor-in-chief and founder of TypeWriter Plus, who previously served as content director for Kraken. He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Carnegelung University and a master's degree in business and economics journalism from New York University.
Jiahui Fu
Jiahui Fu currently works at Rena Labs and was previously the global ecosystem director at Chainbase. She graduated from New York University and Zhejiang University.
