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James Hormuzdiar is the CTO at BlockApps. He graduated from Yale University.
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Bob Summerwill
Bob Summerwill is currently the Head of Ecosystems at BlockApps and previously served as the Executive Director of ETC Cooperative. He has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. In his early years, Bob worked on Ethereum and Hyperledger before moving to Ethereum Classic, where his interest in privacy projects grew. Bob has been programming since 1984 and working as a professional software engineer since 1996 (mostly working on AAA video games). Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003 and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK. He was the basis for the creation of the Enterprise Ethernet Alliance, and worked on the project full-time from October 2016 to October 2017 for ConsenSys. He co-presented the technical roadmap at the EEA launch and served first as Secretary of the Technical Working Group and then as Vice-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee. Prior to that role, he spent some time at the Ethernet Foundation.
Mainak G.
Mainak G. is the head of blockchain strategy at Ironlight. He is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management, Yale University and the Indian Institute of Technology.
Felipe Montealegre
Felipe Montealegre is CIO and co-founder of Theia and previously was Vice President of Declaration Partners. He graduated from Yale University.
Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is Head of Staked at Kraken and was previously co-founder and CEO of Staked. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdBuyer.com, which was acquired by Mediaocean in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
Can Sun
Can Sun is co-founder and Head of Legal at Backpack Exchange and was previously General Counsel at FTX. Previously, he was the General Counsel at FTX. Can holds a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Yale Law School and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.
Zeyu Liu
Zeyu Liu is co-founder of Genitive Network. He is a doctoral student at Yale University, holds a master's degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from UCLA.
Jazear Brooks
Jazear Brooks is the co-founder of Sifchain.
Yuan Xia
Yuan Xia is the Founder & CEO of Secure3. Previously, he worked for GGV Capital, Airbnb, and Facebook. He is also the Founding Director & CSO of CertiK. He graduated from Purdue University and Yale University.
Jake Schwartz
Jake Schwartz is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.