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Tomasz Wojewoda is the chief strategy officer of Match Chain. He was previously the head of business development at BNB Chain, the head of growth at Scroll, and the head of sales at Chainlink. He graduated from Babson College.
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Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Péter Garamvölgyi
Peter Garamvolgyi is the Lead, Protocol Engineering at Scroll and was previously an engineer at Conflux Network and president of the International Blockchain Association at Tsinghua University.
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.
Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis is Co-Founder and CTO at Chainlink. Previously a software engineer and team lead at Pivotal Labs, where he worked on securing sensitive HIPAA compliant data and building scalable payments automation software. He's a big fan of Ethereum, Bitcoin and the decentralized future we're all building.
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.
Irmantas Motiejūnas
Irmantas Motiejūnas is co-founder and CTO of WhiteBridge and has worked at Google and Microsoft.
Alexa Smith
Alexa Smith is an advisor & investor for crypto/web3 founders and teams. She was the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
