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Brandon Gath is currently a Managing Partner at Triton Capital. He was previously Head of Corporate Development at Kraken, a member of Silvergate Bank's Board of Directors Blockchain Advisory Committee, Co-Head of CME Ventures, a member of the Board of Directors of Ripple, and an advisor to Accenture. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Master's degree in Entrepreneurial Finance and Economics and received a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Indiana University.
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Bobby Zagotta
Bobby Zagotta is the CEO and global Chief Commercial Officer of Bitstamp USA and previously was the chief Commercial Officer of Kraken. He also served as senior Managing Director of Strategy & Execution at CME Group and as a senior manager at PWC. He graduated from Texas A&M University in the United States.
Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Eugene Cheung
Eugene Cheung is Chief Institutional Business Officer at OSL and was previously Vice President and Institutional Head at Bybit. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong and Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sunny Ray
Sunny Ray is the co-founder of Unocoin, an India-based startup that aims to make it easy to securely buy, sell, and store bitcoin. He has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, when he directed Business Development for Buttercoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrency trading firms. Sunny operates beyond the level of pure business & always considers relevant social, economic, environmental, political and cultural issues in the local, regional, national & global level. He is incredibly passionate about sales and business development with a drive to create partnerships and opportunities in new geographies. His drive is to work inside emerging and disrupting industries while leveraging his strengths in developing international markets. Since December 2013, he is the President of Unocoin, a leading bitcoin and blockchain company. Unocoin is a platform that makes it easy to securely trade bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto-assets. Unocoin employs more than 100 employees and serves millions of customers. The company is also backed by some of the most reputable investors in the space such as DCG.co (which is backed by CIBC, MasterCard, etc), Boost.vc (backed by Tim Draper, early investor in Hotmail, Skype and Tesla), FundersClub (early investors in Coinbase), etc. He also has a strong interest and international experience in robotics and mechatronic systems. Prior to 2013, Sunny spent nearly 8 years doing sales and international business development in the robotics and mechatronics industry. His clients included Stanford, University of Alberta, Georgia Tech, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Indian Institute of Technology, etc. Sunny is an advocate for and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Club in Toronto. He looks forward to leveraging his extensive international business development experience and applying it towards the new and emerging Canadian Cannabis Industry.
Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.
John Biggs
John Biggs is Hemi editor-in-chief and founder of TypeWriter Plus, who previously served as content director for Kraken. He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Carnegelung University and a master's degree in business and economics journalism from New York University.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
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.
Amir Mehrbakhsh
Amir Mehrbakhsh is Head of Marketing at Walrus and previously worked at Sui, Celo, and Ripple.
Jed McCaleb
Jed McCaleb is the founder of Stellar, Mt. Gox and Ripple, and he has been involved in and witnessed many of the major events in the history of Bitcoin. He also founded Vast, an aerospace startup. In addition, he is also the founder of the world's first P2P sharing software eDonkey.