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Mingchao (Fisher) Yu is the Founder and CTO of Babylon. He has held various positions in the tech industry since 2015. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Lecturer at the Australian National University and a Senior System Engineer at InterfereX Communications. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California. From 2018 to 2022, he was a Senior Staff Research Engineer and Staff Engineer at Dolby Laboratories.
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Bala Varadhan
In his role at Fidelity Investments, Bala Varadhan is responsible for Avon Ventures. Bala Varadhan graduated from Northwestern University.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Matt Russ
Matt Russ is Director of Business Development and Strategy at CoinFund, who previously worked at Menai Financial Group. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Colorado.
Can Kisagun
Can Kisagun is currently the CEO and Co-founder at t1 Protocol.Previously he worked at Secret Network. He graduated from Northwestern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sam Battenally
Sam Battenally is the CEO and co-founder of RISE Chain and was previously the co-founder and CTO of RoboLabs. He graduated from the Australian National University.
Alison Haire
Alison Haire is the CEO and founder of Lilypad Network. She has worked at the Filecoin Foundation, IBM, Google, and Accenture. Alison Haire graduated from the Australian National University.
Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Avery studied at Northwestern University where he also received a PhD in Computer Engineering specializing in the area of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan is a Podcast Host at Good Game Podcast, a Core Contributor for Alliance, and a Co-Founder and Venture Partner for Volt Capital. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business.
Paul Ridley
Paul Ridley is the CEO of Old Street Digital. Additionally, he is the Wholesale Digital Officer at Nomura. He holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Clayton Menzel
Clayton Menzel is now Head of Business Development at Babylon and was previously Head of Strategy at Rio Network, Head of Strategy at Figment and Head of communities at YEN.io and CariClub.
