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Christina Smedley is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Lightspark. She has led marketing, communications, content and branding teams at Amazon, Facebook/Meta, PayPal and Robinhood.
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David Marcus
David Marcus is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, and was previously the co-founder of the Facebook-initiated cryptocurrency project Diem, as well as the former president of PayPal and vice president of messaging products at Facebook.
Ali Aghareza
Ali Aghareza is the co-founder and CTO of Meso.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Sabir Alizada
Sabir Alizada is the Engineering Lead at Trust Machines and was previously a senior Software engineer at WhatsApp and Meta. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University.
Daniel Chavez
Daniel Chavez is Unchained's COO and previously served as the Senior Manager of Global market Operations at Meta. He is a graduate of Pittsburg State University.
location tba
location tba is co-founder and engineer of Azuki, ex-Facebook engineer.
Sirri Perek
Sirri Perek is a professional software engineer specializing in iOS programming, Obj-C with multi-threading, memory management, and design patterns. He has experience in client-server applications, deep Facebook SDK integration and social flows, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, and Java. Sirri has held positions such as Senior Software Engineer at Facebook and Co-Founder at Cenoa. He has also studied at Bilkent University, graduating with a BSc in Computer Technology & Information Systems and Waterford Institute of Technology.
Paul Grewal
Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.