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Jessy is Head of Ecosystem at EigenLayer, Venture Partner at Nascent, and previously worked as an investment analyst at ZhenFund.
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Olivia Wang
Olivia Wang is an investor at Olive Capital and former Head of US for ZhenFund, a leading early stage venture fund in China. In 2016, after spending two years on the deal team in Beijing, Olivia moved to Silicon Valley to start ZhenFund’s US office and oversee its cross-border investments. Previously, Olivia worked at Huobi, a Sequoia China backed bitcoin exchange that is top ten in global liquidity, and currently serves on the company’s board of directors. She started her career on the Asia Equity Sales Desk at Credit Suisse. As an alumna of John Hopkins University, Olivia is an active member of the Hopkins crossborder biotech community. She was named one of Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ for venture capital in 2017.
Teddy Knox
Teddy Knox is a Senior Research Engineer at EigenLayer and the Head of Product for EigenDA. Previously, he served as the Head of Engineering at Duality and as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Alan Curtis
Alan Curtis is COO of EigenLayer and was previously CEO of Rio Network, Head of PlatformBlockchain Capital, CTO of Core Scientific, and CEO of RADAR.
Frederick Allen
Frederick Allen is Director of Business Development at EigenLayer and was previously Head of BD at Rio Network and Head of Staking Sales at Coinbase. He graduated from Monash University in Australia.
Josh Felker
Josh Felker is co-founder of Nascent. Previously, he founded Vigilant Global Trading in Montreal, which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012, where he spent five years as a partner overseeing liquidity provision, risk/directional trading, venture capital, cryptocurrency trading, and more. Josh holds a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from Western University.
Gajesh Naik
Gajesh Naik is a senior software engineer at Eigen Labs and previously a software engineer at LayerZero. He is also an angel investor.
Caleb Tebbe
Caleb Tebbe is currently Director of Engineering at EigenLayer and was previously a Principal Research Engineer at Blockchain Capital, a development engineer at Coinbase, and a CTO at Radar.
Theresa Regenstreif
Theresa Regenstreif leads Finance, Operations, and People at Nascent. Previously, Theresa was Head of Finance at an early stage Fintech company that was acquired, with a VC who built and invested in early stage consumer facing Fintech companies, and worked with an impact investor seeding early stage agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Theresa holds a graduate degree in Accountancy from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Niels Ma
Niels is the initiator of BuidlerDAO, formerly of Yahoo, Alibaba, and ZhenFund.