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Hadley Stern is Marinade's Chief Business Officer and was previously the founder of Fidelity Digital Assets and COO of Bloq. He is a graduate of Concordia University. He is committed to pushing technology and financial services forward within regulatory frameworks. From 2021 to 2023 at the Bank of New York Mellon, Stern led the development of the first bank-grade crypto-custody platform as the Global Head of Digital Asset Custody, integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum custody into banking systems under regulatory oversight. At Bloq, from 2018 to 2020, as COO, he significantly boosted revenue and managed operations, overseeing P&L and the product roadmap for a leading blockchain infrastructure company. His earlier role at Fidelity Investments from 2001 to 2018 includes serving as the Founding President of Fidelity Digital Asset Services, launching trading and custody services for digital assets, and leading initiatives in Fidelity's Blockchain Incubator starting in 2014.
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Emiliano Bonassi
Angel investor, Web3 researcher, and investor with a strong interest in security; former manager at AWS Cloud and Yearn Finance.
Matthew Roszak
Matthew Roszak is Co-Founder and Chairman of Bloq Blockchain Technologies, Founding Partner of Tally Capital, Co-Founder of Vesper, and Founder of Metronome, a Next-Generation Cryptocurrency. He is a Leading Blockchain Investor, Entrepreneur, and Advocate. He also serves as the Chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce Blockchain Industry Association, Founder of Token Alliance, and a Board Member of BitGive. He is also the Founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center and the Producer of the industry's first documentary, "The Rise of Bitcoin".
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.
Ricky Tsang
Ricky Tsang is the Chief Information Officer at Meex and formerly served as CIO at BC Group. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
Greg Jizmagian
Greg Jizmagian is the Co-Founder and CTO at Exponential DeFi. Previously, he worked as a Business and Technology Leader at Amazon. Greg Jizmagian graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Aaron
Aaron is the Co-founder and CTO of CoinMarketCap. Previously, he worked at Trip.com and Amazon. Aaron graduated from Hunan University and Arizona State University.
David Schwed
David Schwed is Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood and previously was COO at Halborn and global Head of digital Asset Technology at the Bank of New York Mellon.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Maggie Hsu
Maggie Hsu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading go-to-market for the crypto portfolio. She previously led go-to-market for Amazon Managed Blockchain at Amazon Web Services, and before that led business development for AirSwap, a decentralized exchange. Maggie has held executive positions at Zappos.com and Hilton Worldwide. She was also a consultant at McKinsey and Company. Maggie is a cofounder of Gold House, a nonprofit collective of pioneering Asian leaders. She holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University.
Tausif Ahmed
Tausif Ahmed is Vice President of BD at io.net and previously he was Head of NFT and Web3 Business Development at Kraken. He graduated from Drexel University.