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Ben Perszyk is Head of Ecosystem at Ritual and was previously Chief Strategy Officer at SHRAPNEL and a partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he worked as a Product Specialist at Airbnb, collaborating with Data Science, Design, and Development teams to analyze product data and enhance user experience.
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Anish Agnihotri
Anish Agnihotri is a founding member of Ritual and an independent Researcher at MEV. Previously, he was a researcher at Paradigm, built performant trading systems at Polychain Capital, and expanded test automation at 1Password.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Akilesh Potti
Akilesh Potti is the Co-founder of Ritual. Presively he was Partner at Polychain, ML at Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading at Goldman, ML Research at {MIT, Cornell}.
Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Sam Rosenblum
Sam Rosenblum is a Partner at Haun Ventures. Previously, he was a Partner at Polychain Capital, Director of Business Development at Coinbase, Global Strategy Associate at Visa, and Analyst at Lake Partners Strategy Consultants. He obtained his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a part of the UCLA Honors College and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
Saneel Sreeni
Saneel Sreeni is the founding member of Ritual and venture partner at Accomplice. He invests in and advises genuine and ambitious outliers tackling bold goals; these include Praxis, Kaleidoscope, Veera, Eclipse, Karate Combat and more in stealth.
Sherwin Dowlat
Sherwin Dowlat is co-founder of Veil and was previously a partner at Polychain Capital. He has worked at renowned firms such as Susquehanna International Group and Wedbush Securities, specializing in technology stocks, equity derivatives, and cryptocurrencies. At present, Mr. Dowlat is deeply engaged in his work and dedicated to achieving outstanding results. He previously obtained his education at San Diego State University.
Ricky Moezinia
Ricky Moezinia is currently building Ritual, an AI infrastructure company. Previously, he built Alta, a fintech company, worked as a software engineer on Novi and Diem (ex Libra) at Facebook, and as a quant at Point72. He advises and invests in startups through Leo Capital.
Chase Lochmiller
Chase is an avid tech enthusiast passionate about enabling new technologies such as AI and blockchain to positively impact people's lives. Before founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets, and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was formerly a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the "seven summits" including Mount Everest.
Igor Sylvester
Igor Sylvester is a founding member of Ritual and was previously an engineering partner at Trust Machines. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT.