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Dan Larimer, also known as BM, is a genius programmer and the only creator in the world who has produced three consecutive blockchain products in the top 50 by market capitalization. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His dream has always been to find a free market solution that can guarantee people's lives, freedom, and property security, and make the world a better place. He realized that everything had to start with free currency. In 2013, many Bitcoin exchanges were shut down by the US government, and bank accounts were also seized. At this time, BM began developing the world's first decentralized exchange, Bitshares, and invented bitUSD, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. In the following two years, Dan systematically solved many of the problems that blockchain technology encountered in application. For example, for the trading speed requirement of 100,000 transactions per second for exchanges, Dan developed the Graphene technology solution. In early 2016, Dan developed the Steem blockchain based on his new understanding and developed the Steemit social media application on this public chain. The DPoS consensus mechanism he proposed is based on the concept of shareholder voting to elect validators, which is used to prevent three to five large mining pools from attacking the network and achieve maximum decentralization. Concerns about the risks of DPoS are actually ignoring greater risks. The lack of unity between token holders and decision-makers is a greater risk for the network. In 2017, at the New York Consensus Conference, BM introduced the ambitious EOS project to the world, with the goal of becoming the operating system of the blockchain industry and being seen as a strong competitor to Ethereum. With parallel computing, millions of TPS, and no transaction fees, EOS contains several important features that, if successful, will make blockchain technology a truly practical technology.
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Michael A. Robinson
Michael A. Robinson is the Foundation chairman of Oort and co-founder and managing partner of Aves Lair. He graduated from Virginia Tech.
Gavin Wang
Gavin Wang is the Managing Partner at SNZ Holding and formerly Director of Business Development & Strategic Investment at Futu Securities.
Conor Patrick
Conor Patrick is a CTO at Cordial Systems and previously he was a software engineer at \n Jump Crypto. He graduated from Virginia Tech.
Jonathan Ebinger
Jonathan is a general partner of BlueRun Ventures. Over his 20 years at the firm he has led investments in Coupa Software (NASD: COUP), Kabbage (American Express), Enpocket (Nokia), as well as Jackpocket, Paystand, FreeAgent, and numerous other early stage companies. Jonathan also has 15 years of marketing and finance experience in the telecommunications industry. Jonathan was the Vice President of Marketing for Qwest Communications, and held other senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, Inc., an early internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.
Mothusi Majinda
Mothusi Majinda is the Chief Technology Officer of Bullish and was previously Director of Platform Engineering at BC Group, Assistant Vice President at Credit Suisse, and Analyst at JPMorgan Chase. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Brendan Blumer
Brendan began building innovative technology companies when he was in high school. After several successful exits-including Gamecliff, an in-game marketplace, and okay.com, Hong Kong's largest digital property agency-Brendan became an early investor in blockchain when he co-founded Block.one. He now serves as the Chairman of Bullish.
Ethan Tong
Ethan Tong is the founder and CEO of KnightSafe and was previously the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Aspen Digital and a partner at EVG.
William Wolf
William Wolf is the former Partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he was responsible for Payment-related Development at Airbnb as a Founding Team Member at Tilt.com, as a Technical Director; as a Senior Software Developer at Siteworx, managing Technical Decisions, Implementation, Resource Cooperation and Strategy for each Project; at Rackspace to establish Webmail.us Email Hosting Platform. He has over a decade of experience building high-quality products and extensive experience in Distributed Systems and Team Management.
Andrew Berkowitz
Andrew Berkowitz is the Founder and CEO of ValuesCo, a Cofounder of AfrofutureDAO, and a Fellow at the Milken Institute. His prior experience includes working as the Managing Partner of The Global Startup Movement, Chief Operating Officer of Tradeversity, and Chief Executive Officer of Socialstack. He studied Business Information Technology and Management Consulting and Analysis at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.