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Ed Felten is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Offchain Labs, the initial team behind the development of Arbitrum. In addition to his role at Offchain Labs, Ed is a professor at Princeton University, where he has been educating students in Computer Science and Public Affairs for nearly 30 years. Ed had a stint as the White House’s Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer from June 2015 until January 2017. From January 2011 to August 2012, Ed served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. He currently sits as a Board Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Ed graduated from Caltech with a B.S. in Physics and received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.
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Mariam Kouanda
Mariam Kouanda is grants manager at Arbitrum and was previously Director of Growth at Angle Labs. He graduated from Sciences Po in Paris.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton works in developer relations at Arbitrum, having previously been a lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, and has also worked at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
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.
Matt Sorg
Matt Sorg is Vice President of technology at Solana and was previously a data scientist at Riot Games and co-founder of Concha Labs. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Washington.
Haichen Shen
Haichen Shen is the co-founder of Scroll and leads the engineering team. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to several open-source projects, including zkEVM, Apache TVM, and RAF. He studied at Tsinghua Yaoban for his undergraduate degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His research focuses on the field of low-level systems. After graduating, he worked on building machine learning systems at Amazon.
Alex Shin
Alex Shin was previously a co-founder and partner at Hashed, and has also worked at Google and DocuSign.
Daniel Wilpon
Daniel Wilpon is the Head of NFTs at Anagram. He was previously a co-founder and partner of Omnichain Capital. He is a graduate of the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
Mihee Park
Mihee Park has over 30 years of work experience. Mihee began their career in 1991 as an Officer at Kyongnam Bank. In 1998, they became a Consultant at Korea M&A Corporation, where their main responsibilities included M&A Advisory. Mihee then moved on to Arthur Andersen in 1999 as a Senior Consultant. In 2002, they joined C&P Consulting as a Manager. From 2005 to 2018, they worked at Sibelco Group, where they held the roles of Chief Financial Officer - Asia, Vice President Corporate - Asia, Senior Corporate Finance Manager - Asia, Interim General Manager - Korea, and Integration Manager. In 2018, they joined Zilliqa as the Chief Financial Officer, where they worked on a high-performance, high-security blockchain platform for enterprises and next-generation applications. In 2022, they joined Big Time Studios as the Chief Financial Officer. Mihee Park attended the University of Washington from 1994 to 1997, where they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management. Mihee then attended the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford from 2017 to 2018, where they obtained a Certificate in Fintech. In March 2018, they also obtained the Oxford Fintech Programme certification from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
Rahul Maganti
Rahul Maganti is the head of product at Wormhole, having previously been Vice President at Jump Crypto, and he has also worked at Arbitrum and Pantera Capital. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
T.J. Ragsdale
T.J. Ragsdale is the CEO and co-founder of Raad Labs. He previously worked at MakerDAO, where he provided financing for real-world assets such as renewable energy projects and carbon credits.