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Carl Hua is a Managing Partner at Reforge and was previously CTO and Investment Partner at Shima Capital and Chief Architect at Celsius Network. Before that, Carl led the research and development efforts at RippleX, Ripple's open-source/developers platform business unit. He also co-managed the C++ (XRP Ledger) team during his time at Ripple. Before Ripple, Carl was the CTO for Logos Network - a first-layer, high-performance blockchain company, which was later acquired by Ripple. Earlier in his career, he contributed to the next-generation real-time flight software for the Europa mission at JPL NASA. He has also led engineering teams developing flight software at Northrop Grumman.
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Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Shadow. Presively he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Paradigm. Ex-Product at Goldfinch. Before that Alvin Hsia worked at Airbnb. He graduated from UCLA.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Charles Moran
Charles Moran is the COO of North Island Ventures. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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.
Zeyu Liu
Zeyu Liu is co-founder of Genitive Network. He is a doctoral student at Yale University, holds a master's degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from UCLA.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.