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Emilie Choi is President and Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase. She was formerly Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Business Operations, and Strategy at Coinbase. She is also a board member of both public and private companies, as well as an angel investor. Her specialties include consumer internet, SaaS, crypto, M&A, venture investments, corporate strategy, business operations, business development, data analytics, and international.
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Aklil Ibssa
Aklil Ibssa is Director of Corporate Development and venture capital at Coinbase and previously was a product manager at LinkedIn. He graduated from Santa Clara University.
Jamie Lottering
Jamie Lottering is Technical Lead at RabbitHole and was previously a senior Software engineer at Coinbase.
Michael Li
Michael Li is the Advisor of AIGC Chain. Previously, he worked as Vice President of Data at Coinbase. Michael Li graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor's degree, and obtained a Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Teddy Knox
Teddy Knox is a Senior research engineer at EigenLayer and was previously Head of engineering at Duality and a senior software engineer at LinkedIn.
Sid Ramesh
Sid Ramesh is a product manager at Coinbase and previously worked as a protocol specialist at Dharma Labs. Sid Ramesh was the CEO and Founder at Chainguru, a small consultancy that specializes in education, research and development for making Blockchains accessible to businesses and consumers. He’s a resident expert on Enterprise Blockchains and consensus protocols.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Brian Tsang
Brian Tsang is the former Head of Product and data at Rarible, who has also been a product manager at Uber and a data analyst at LinkedIn. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Hopkins University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.