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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.
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Aleck Lee
Aleck is the CFO of First Digital Trust. Apart from leading its finance team based in different jurisdictions to overview all of the Group's financial and accounting activities, Aleck is also involved in FDT’s fundraising and restructuring. Prior to joining FDT, Aleck was the Asia CFO of a Sweden-listed private equity group with dental prosthetics manufacturing arms in Mainland China and Southeast Asia. He gained unprecedented experience delivering crisis management solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aleck was a British Chevening Scholar and obtained his MSc in Economics and Strategy from Imperial College London. Upon his graduation, he worked in Big4 and accumulated experience in M&A, value creation and audit before working in-house since 2019. Aleck is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accoutants (HKICPA). He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Australian National University and Imperial College London.
Hai Nguyen
Hai Nguyen is the Co-founder & CTO at RISE Chain.
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.
Rahul Ghangas
Rahul Ghangas is the founder and CEO of Aerius Labs, VEX and Scalerize. He has previously worked for Celestia, Stardust, and Ren. He graduated from the Australian National University.
Sasha Mai Herbert
Sasha Mai Herbert is the Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder of RISE Chain. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
Niki Ariyasinghe
Niki Ariyasinghe is Chainlink's Director of Business Development for Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Prior to that, Niki worked at blockchain startups R3 and Abra. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Susruth Nadimpalli
Susruth Nadimpalli is the founder and CEO of Catalog and previously served as Ren's head of blockchain. He is a graduate of the Australian National University.
Jaz Gulati
Jaz Gulati is the co-founder of Catalog, and previously he was the lead developer at Ren. He is a graduate of the Australian National University.
Mingchao Yu
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.
Elliot Parker
Elliot Parker is the COO at Ethena Labs and previously was a product manager at Paradigm. He is a graduate of the Australian National University.
