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Jason Kam is the founder at Folius Ventures, a Hong Kong-based crypto fund. After years of working as an analyst in Traditional Finance at Deutsche Bank, 40 North Management, and Briarwood Chase Management, Jason took the leap into the world of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in 2018, seeing its potential.
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Annabelle Huang
Annabelle Huang, founder of a stealth company, was previously a managing partner at Amber Group and head of AirSwap Asia. Before transitioning into digital assets, she advised private equity funds, US corporates, and hedge funds on structured solutions and risk management as an FX structurer at Deutsche Bank and Nomura in New York. Her deep understanding of traditional financial markets, combined with her expertise on how institutions and macro markets work, has played a key role in helping develop the product strategy and solutions delivered through Amber Group. Recently, Ms. Huang has been appointed to lead GlobalX Center, a global expansion team to grow Amber's institutional and retail product offerings to more regions.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Frank Ma
Frank Ma, co-founder and CEO of Ultiverse, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 and worked at large tech companies in the Bay Area from 2013 to 2015.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is an advisor & investor for crypto/web3 founders and teams. She was the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
John Quinn
John Quinn is the Founding Partner and CIO at Decentral Park Capital, managing $130 million of digital assets. He is also the founder of Storj Labs and a recovering investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Flemings.
Max Galka
Max Galka is the founder and CEO of Elementus. Prior to founding Elementus, he held various positions in the data science and finance industries, including being an adjunct lecturer in data science at the University of Pennsylvania, a derivatives trader at both Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and a co-founder of Revaluate, a real estate data startup.
Yu Hu
Yu Hu is the Founder and CEO of Kaito AI. He is building an AI-powered search engine for digital assets. He graduated from the University of Cambridge.