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Amanda Fabiano is the Founder of Fabiano Consulting and was previously the Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital and the Director of Bitcoin Mining at Fidelity Investments.
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Alex Thorn
Alex Thorn is Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. He was formerly an Investor at Avon Ventures, where he invested in digital assets and bitcoin/crypto/blockchain companies, and a Director of Blockchain Research at Fidelity Investments. At Avon Ventures, he was responsible for investing in early stage ventures working on bitcoin, cryptoassets, and blockchain technology, as the venture fund is affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. At Fidelity, he conducted and produced research on bitcoin, cryptoassets, digital assets, and blockchain technology at the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and Fidelity Labs. He also represented Fidelity Institutional to state and federal regulators, investigated and responded to inquiries and examinations made by regulatory agencies, liaised with the Legal Department on complex litigation and regulatory matters resulting from regulatory scrutiny or inquiries, innovated technology and systems solutions for the compliance team to create more efficient business processes, workflows, and strategies, and consulted on emerging technology issues, including cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and cyber security. Additionally, he managed the document review process for Fidelity Legal, consulted with in-house counsel and management on discovery processes, innovated procedures and created efficiencies to improve quality, managed vendor relationships for data processing and hosting, oversaw or directly managed hundreds of cases affecting all Fidelity business units, acted as a project manager communicating clearly with in-house and outside attorneys, business partners, and management, and coordinated projects to successful outcomes. He also advised enterprise infrastructure and business units regarding the use of new media, data sources, and communications tools in a regulated environment, promoted Fidelity's positions on retention, legal discovery, and social media at conferences and to external parties and industry groups, performed interviews in support of litigation and ensured accuracy and integrity of data collected, collaborated with design teams to develop business processes and software necessary to create a centralized litigation research team, acted as a gatekeeper responsible for extracting information from legal documents served on Fidelity and identifying specific allegations and potential business issues, conducted research to identify and collect evidence for litigation and regulatory investigations, researched and managed evidentiary case files for over 200 legal investigations, and trained 5 new hires before leaving this role.
Jurrien Timmer
Jurrien Timmer is the Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments. He is part of Fidelity's Global Asset Allocation group, where he specializes in asset allocation and global macro strategy. Jurrien has been at Fidelity for 27 years and has close to four decades of experience in the industry. Prior to assuming his current position in 2005, Mr. Timmer held various other roles within Fidelity, including director of market research and technical research analyst. He also co-managed Fidelity Global. Jurrien earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Babson College. He was born and raised a Dutch citizen in Aruba and has been living in the United States all of his adult life. He became a US citizen in 2002.
John Cahill
John Cahill is Galaxy Digital's Chief Operating Officer for Asia.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and formerly a research analyst at CoinDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a co-founder and general Partner of DBA and previously was co-head of Investments at Galaxy Digital. Michael previously led Galaxy's efforts on Fireblocks (Series A, B, and C), Tagomi (now Coinbase Instituteal), and Bison Trails (now Coinbase) Cloud), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and other foundational winners.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Matthew Walsh
Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector. Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Sam Fang
Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim is the co-founder of Arbelos and previously Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.
David Schwed
David Schwed is Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood and previously was COO at Halborn and global Head of digital Asset Technology at the Bank of New York Mellon.