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Bing Zhang is CIO of Avenir Crypto and was previously VP of Pionex and founder of Quantamental Alpha Asset Management. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in finance from the University of Maryland.
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Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer at Coinbase, previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 15 years and is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Maryland.
Katrina Paglia
Katrina Paglia is General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Pantera Capital and previously served as Deputy General Counsel at Coinbase, where she was responsible for supporting digital assets and trading products.He is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and the University of Maryland, College Park.
Matt Shapiro
Matt Shapiro is a Partner at Multicoin Capital, where he works closely with limited partners, generates investment ideas, and manages daily responsibilities of due diligence, strategy, and negotiations as a senior member of the investment team. Prior to joining Multicoin Capital, he served as a Vice President in the investment banking group at Teneo, specializing in raising institutional capital around specific investment theses, management teams, and assets across a range of industries. During his time at Teneo, he focused on constructing transactions that aligned the interests of disparate parties while maximizing returns for all stakeholders. His experience around incentive structures attracted him to the underlying mechanics of cryptoassets and how they enable various parties to trustlessly engage in diverse and complex transactions. Matt is based in New York City and holds a degree in Finance and International Business from the University of Maryland.
Lucas Kozinski
Lucas Kozinski is a founding contributor to the Renzo Protocol and previously worked at Tokensoft, Tezos, and Point B. He graduated from the University of Maryland Business School.
David Hirsch
David Hirsch is the managing Partner at Compound VC and previously worked at Google. He graduated from the University of Maryland.
Himanshu Tyagi
Himanshu Tyagi is a co-founder of Sentient and Witness Chain and an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Arjun Sethi
Arjun Sethi is the Co-Founder of Nibiru Chain and Co-founder and CEO of Tribe Capital.
Christine Perry
Christine Perry is the former VP Solutions Engineering at Skale Labs, building highly configurable elastic sidechains for Ethereum.
Josef Holm
Josef Holm is the co-founder and CEO of Rewardable. He was previously a founding partner of Draper Goren Holm. He graduated from the University of Maryland.