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Bobby Cho is President and Founding Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. Previously, Bobby was chief operating officer of DRW’s crypto trading arm, Cumberland. Prior to DRW, Bobby was Director of Trading at Paxos Trust Company concentrating on building out crypto trading and custody products. Bobby started his career at SecondMarket working in illiquid asset-backed securities. At SecondMarket, Bobby helped build out their bitcoin trading arm, Genesis Global Trading, and asset management division, Digital Currency Group. Bobby is a graduate of Villanova University.
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Charles Cascarilla
Charles Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain technology company that allows companies to trade, hold, and tokenize assets in the crypto space, achieved through the company's array of software solutions. Cascarilla is a certified financial analyst and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. His experience in the finance industry dates back to 1999, when he began his career as an analyst at Bank of America, followed by a brief stint as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2000. Since then, he has worked with a number of other notable companies, including Claiborne Capital Management, Cedar Hill Capital Partners, Liberty City Ventures, and the Association for Digital Asset Markets.
Mark Shifke
Mark Shifke is the Chief Financial Officer at DCG. Presively he was CFO at Billtrust & Green Dot Corporation, Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, Vice President at Goldman Sachs. Mark Shifke graduated from New York University School of Law.
Austin Campbell
Austin Campbell is the CEO of WSPN US. Mr. Campbell brings extensive experience in stablecoin markets and digital asset strategy to his new role, including running stable value products at JPM and Citi, managing reserves and risk for the Paxos stablecoins (BUSD, USDP), and having helped to design PYUSD.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Travis Scher
Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.
Walter Hessert
Walter Hessert is the Head of Strategy and BD at Paxos. He also is the Founder of Gold Games.
Emily Meyers
Emily Meyers is General counsel at Electric Capital and previously was Deputy general counsel at Paxos. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Brown University.
Meltem Demirors
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, the digital asset manager. She is also a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. At CoinShares, Ms. Demirors builds asset management products to provide institutional investors with exposure to crypto assets and blockchain companies. Prior to this, she held a senior strategic and investing role at Digital Currency Group.
Anthony Salerno
Anthony Salerno is Head of Financial Crimes at Mercury and was previously Director of Global Compliance Operations at Paxos and Head of Global Compliance at Polygon. He is a graduate of Mercyhurst University and Southern Methodist University.
Larry Sukernik
Larry Sukernik is the Co-founder of Reverie, advisor to Metropolis (formerly Orca), and former investment analyst at Digital Currency Group (DCG).