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Clay Collins is the CEO and Co-founder at Nomics and Board Chair at Drip/Leadpages. Before co-founding Nomics, Clay founded Leadpages, where he drove growth to over 48K paying customers (and 175 employees), led the company’s acquisition of Drip, and raised $38M in venture capital financing.
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Luke Hajdukiewicz
Luke Hajdukiewicz is Head of Ecosystem at Rio Network, having previously been head of new ecosystem development at BitGo and head of sales at HeightZero. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the Brooks School.
Clinton Bembry
Clinton Bembry is Co-Founder and CEO of Slingshot. He was formerly Co-Founder of Astro Wallet (acquired by Coinbase), and Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Totient.
Nick Gauthier
Nick Gauthier is Founder and CTO at Nomics. He is a web freelancer, consultant, and trainer specializing in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (especially Backbone.js and jQuery), and PostgreSQL. In 2011 he co-wrote Recipes with Backbone with Chris Strom and in 2012 he wrote Mobile Web Patterns with Backbone.js. Nick has spoken at a bunch of Ruby and Open-Source conferences including RailsConf, WindyCityRuby, GoRuCo, Ruby Hoedown, Lone Star Ruby Conf, and RubyNation, and he's always interested in speaking about web development, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Backbone, and other topics. Nick is currently working on MeetSpace a video conferencing web app for distributed teams.
Eric Jaurena
Eric Jaurena is head of technology ecosystem at Allora, who also previously worked at Chainlink. He is a graduate of Minneapolis College and the University of Minnesota.
Josh Hawkins
Josh Hawkins is Senior Vice President, Strategic Positioning & Global Thought Leadership at Circle, a consumer finance startup that uses Bitcoin technology to make money transfers and payments instant, secure, global and free. Circle was founded in 2013 by Internet entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire with $26 million in venture backing from Jim Breyer, Accel, General Catalyst, and Oak Investment Partners. Previously, Josh was Vice President of Marketing at SutherlandGold, a leading tech-focused PR and marketing firm based in San Francisco with clients including Birchbox, Comcast Ventures, CloudFlare, and TOMS. Prior to joining SutherlandGold, Josh was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Brightcove, a leading cloud-based video platform company with software used by thousands media companies and marketers in more than 60 countries. At Brightcove, Josh led global public relations, marketing communications, creative services, and website operations. Josh joined Brightcove in 2005 when it was a pre-revenue, 20-person startup. Over the next eight years, the company grew to 350 employees, with sales and marketing operations in nine countries and revenue of $100 million. In February 2012, Brightcove completed a successful IPO. Josh speaks at industry events and has articles published in Advertising Age and Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly.
Taylor Nelson
Taylor Nelson is the head of Business development at CR3 Labs and previously was Improbable's Chief Web3 strategist. He graduated from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities.
Eric Zhang
Jiannan (Eric) Zhang is the founder and CEO of DoraHacks, a global hacker community. He is an early contributor to TrueChain, a blockchain infrastructure for assets and decentralized applications. He was formerly the founder of TopHacker Group.
Jin Hong Kuan
Jin Hong Kuan is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Opdefi and was previously a software engineer at Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Minnesota.
Josh Rosenthal
Josh Rosenthal is a partner at Polychain and has worked at FalconX, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase.
Eskender Abebe
Eskender Abebe is Head of Product and Strategy for ENS and previously was Senior Product Manager at Consensys. He graduated from the University of Minnesota.