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Wei Dai focuses on zero-knowledge cryptography and protocol design. Prior to his work as a research partner at 1kx, W. Dai worked as a research partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He also held research positions at NTT Research, the University of Washington, and Visa Research, where he contributed to cutting-edge research in the field of blockchain technology. W. Dai obtained his Ph.D. from UC San Diego and holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, as well as a Masters's from UCSB.
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TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is the General Counsel of Anchorage and a member of the board of directors of the Blockchain Association. She previously served as a partner and head of regulation and policy at Bain Capital Crypto and deputy general counsel and compliance officer at Worldcoin. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego and Yale University.
Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the co-founder of Subs.fun and co-founder and CEO of Shadow. Previously, he worked at Goldfinch, Airbnb. He is a graduate of UCLA.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Alex Evans
Prior to joining Bain Capital Crypto, Alex was a researcher at Placeholder, where he focused on early-stage investing in DeFi, blockchain scalability, and privacy technologies. Drawn to problems that bridge theoretical ideas to practical implementation, he has published research on financial protocols, privacy, and consensus.
Shelby Thomas
Shelby Thomas is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Lore. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Chris Hofmann
Chris Hofmann was previously a partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He first became interested in cryptocurrencies in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem.
