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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.
Farid Rached
Farid Rached is the former Ecosystem Growth Manager at Avalanche. Pushing a decentralised future forward by growing the development, exposure and adoption of Avalanche. Formerly at Magic Labs, Fortmatic. Avalanche is the first smart contracts platform that can confirm transactions in under one second, is interoperable with all Ethereum tooling, and capable of throughput orders of magnitude greater than existing blockchain networks (4,500+ transactions/second). It achieves strong safety guarantees without compromising decentralization or requiring sharding and enables millions of independent validators to participate as full block producers. To date, Avalanche’s high performance attracted decentralized projects looking to escape the pain points of slow transaction throughput and settlement speeds of legacy blockchain platforms.
Emin Gün Sirer
Emin Gün Sirer is the co-founder and CEO of AVA Labs and a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on Operating Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems. Additionally, G¨¹n serves as co-director of the Blockchain Alliance IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts), which was funded by the National Science Foundation in 201
John Nahas
John Nahas is the senior vice president of business development at Avalanche. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
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.
Nikhil Chaturvedi
Nikhil Chaturvedi currently works at Blockworks and previously served as Head of Business Development at Allora. He is a graduate of the State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick.
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.
Kevin Sekniqi
Kevin Sekniqi is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AVA Labs, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a researcher in distributed systems, with a particular focus on blockchain technology, and actively participates in various entrepreneurial projects to develop new paradigms for achieving higher scalability, throughput, and latency in distributed applications.
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.