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Ben Frigon is the COO of Talus and previously worked at Distributed Global and Movement Labs.
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Dan Tapiero
Dan Tapiero is the CEO and Managing Partner of 10T, a global investment management firm. Prior to founding 10T, Dan was the managing partner of DTAP Capital Advisors, a global macro investment fund that he founded in 2003. He is also the co-founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a physical precious metals platform for the wealth management industry that expanded into the cryptocurrency universe in 2014. Additionally, he co-founded the Agricultural Company of America (AGCoA), which was one of the largest farmland REITs in the U.S. at the time of its sale in 2013. Dan has a wealth of experience as a macro-focused portfolio manager and analyst, having worked at Tiger Management, Duquesne Capital Management, Steinhardt Management Co., and SAC Capital Advisors from 1992-2012. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where he earned his B.A.'90 and M.A.'91 in European History. Dan has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Lawrenceville School for the past 12 years and currently leads the Investment Committee for its endowment.
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.
Ann Jaskiw
Ann Jaskiw is the Founder and CEO of Tactic. Previously, she worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Ann Jaskiw graduated from Brown University.
Phil Davis
Phil Davis is the former CFO at ConsenSys, oversee ConsenSys’ finance and accounting functions, including expanding the company’s pioneering treasury strategy. Davis joins ConsenSys from Afiniti, where he was the company’s CFO. He brings a variety of other experiences from earlier in his career, including investment banking at Goldman Sachs, strategy and corporate finance consulting at McKinsey, and advanced data science and algorithm design experience at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Lincoln Lab.
Markus Maier
Markus Maier is the Founder of Mauve, the first fully AML-compliant, Real World Asset focused DEX, and Violet, providing on-chain Compliance as a Service.
Dylan Field
Dylan Field is the CEO / Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around the siloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.
Daniel Breyer
Daniel leads consumer investing for Breyer Capital. He led and/or supports investments in portfolio companies like Headspace, Grammarly, Epic, Zumper, Citizen, and Stash. Before joining Breyer Capital, Daniel, with his brother Ted, co-founded Breyer Labs: a bootstrapped cryptocurrency fund. He also co-founded Flare (the one-stop shop for group communication) and invests in b2b opportunities focused on the future of work (ex Sana Benefits, Zen Business, Pryon). Daniel graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in History.
Madison Piercy
Madison Piercy is Chief Operations Officer at Robot Ventures. Formerly, Operational Specialist at 1inch Network, Head of Data Science at MakerDAO.
Will Kantaros
Will Kantaros is the co-founder of Decent and a research partner at Archetype. He is a graduate of Brown University and Phillips Academy.
Andy Bell
Andy Bell is Head of engineering at Movement Labs and previously was Vice President of engineering at Biconomy and Chief Technology Officer at Ajuna. He graduated from the University of Nottingham.