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Flora Fang is the Chief Operating Officer at Highstreet, with extensive management and international strategic planning experience in various fields. She has successfully assisted several multinational companies in new product development and cross-industry projects. Prior to blockchain, Flora served as the Chief Operating Officer at an international gaming group, overseeing its development team and formulating operational plans. Flora is an avid e-sports player and also practices ikenobo, equestrian, and the art of making Chinese tea. Previously, she has held positions such as Incubation and Operation Consultant at Blizzard Fund, Strategic Advisor at GeneOnline, Managing Partner at Avalanche Asia Star Fund, Partner Relations Advisor, and Global Partnership Director at NEM Group. Flora holds an EMBA from Hult International Business School (which she dropped out of) and a Game and Interactive Media degree from Vancouver Film School.
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Jasper Zhang
Jasper (Yue) Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic and was previously a Senior Blockchain Fellow at Ava Labs and a quant Fellow at Citadel Securities. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Peking University. He is also a gold medalist in the Alibaba Global Math Competition and the Chinese Math Olympiad.
Maofan Ted Yin
Maofan Ted Yin is the former chief scientist at Hyperbolic. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Cornell University.
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.
John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
Ishaan Hiranandani
Ishaan Hiranandani is Strategy Lead at EigenLayer and was previously a product manager at jpmorgan Chase andan investor in Jump Crypto. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
Phillip Liu Jr.
Phillip Liu Jr. is the COO of The Arena and a founding member and former head of strategy at Ava Labs.
Chris Lavery
Chris Lavery is the Chief Financial Officer of Ava Labs and a former graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Devika Mittal
Devika Mittal is the India Head of Ava Labs, having previously worked at Oyi OKX and Oyi OKX. She is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the Chief Marketing officer at Eco and was previously Vice President of Marketing at Ava Labs and Head of Marketing at AirSwap. He is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington.
Andrew Hemingway
Andrew Hemingway is Head of growth at Hashflow and previously worked at Avalanche and Tron.