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Arthur Cheong is the Founder, CEO & CIO of DeFiance Capital, one of the leading Web3 & Crypto investment firms globally that have made signature investments in the DeFi and Web3 gaming space. He is also the Council President of dYdX Foundation, a foundation set up to support and grow the dYdX protocol ecosystem by enabling communities, developers, and decentralized governance. Arthur is a seasoned crypto investor with more than 5 years of crypto investing experience, having managed and grown a crypto fund from 6 figures to 9 figures. He has more than 165k followers on Twitter and his background spans across startups, oil trading, and Web3. Before founding DeFiance Capital, Arthur co-founded a crypto start-up and worked on Growth and Strategy role at a blockchain protocol focusing on scalability and sharding. Prior to his work in the Web3 space, Arthur worked in the oil trading industry under BP’s flagship trading development programme, where he worked closely with oil trading professionals in trading, shipping and operation roles.
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Haichuan (Hayden) Liu
Haichuan (Hayden) Liu served as Head of Developer Relations at Particle Network, co-founder of ContentFi, and core developer of Automata Network.
Michael Ng
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Nguyen Bui
Nguyen Bui is the Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer at Inferix Labs. He also is the Co-Founder at TazoGames. Prior to this, he served as CEO of DeGaLabs and Chief Strategy Officer of Coin98 Finance.
Yeou Jie Goh
Yeou Jie Goh is Head of Asia Pacific at Chromia and was previously Head of Portfolio Growth at DeFiance Capital. He is a graduate of Monash University.
Sam Weinberg
Sam Weinberg is the Co-Founder / CEO at GoldLink. Presively, he worked as Software Engineer at dYdX and Bloomberg. Sam Weinberg graduated from University of Pennsylvania.
Germaine Jiang
Germaine Jiang is the General Manager, Singapore and Head of Strategy and Institutional Relations at Mask Network and graduated from Nanyang Technological University.
Eugin Lee
Eugin LEE, Yu Jun is a former Investment Analyst at DeFiance Capital. Formerly, Data Science Bootcamp (Applied Artificial Intelligence) at NVIDIA / Republic Polytechnic. “As software ate the world over the last decade, DeFi will eat traditional finance during the next one.”
Paul Erlanger
Paul Erlanger is the BD lead at dYdX and previously worked at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from New York University.
Athena Miao
Athena Miao is the Chief Commercial Officer of BigONE. She graduated from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Raffles Institution, Singapore.
Jui Tan
Jui Tan is the Managing Partner at Lanchi Ventures. He has 10 years of industrial experience and 20 years of early-stage technology investment experience in China and the United States. He joined Lanchi Venture Capital (Silicon Valley) in 2000. In 2005, he founded the Lanchi Venture Capital China fund and team and is based in Beijing. Focusing on early investments in enterprise services and hard technology fields, he has led investments in outstanding early-stage projects such as Ganji.com, PPTV, Qingyun Technology (SH.688316), Yimaiche, Yunsheng Intelligence, etc., and has also participated in Ganji.com/58.com, etc. Initiated major strategic mergers and acquisitions in the industry. Before joining Lanchi Venture Capital, Chen Weiguang worked at Singapore Telecom and was engaged in computer and network system engineering management at IBM. Mr. Chen Weiguang holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an MBA degree from IMD International Management School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Chen Weiguang was named among the TOP50 best venture capitalists in the world by Forbes The Midas List.