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Jimmy Zhong

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Jimmy Zhong is the co-founder of IOST. He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer and Mathematics. He was a former member of Magna Cum Laude 500-startup. He has founded multiple successful start-up companies and successfully exited them. He is also an early Bitcoin/Ethereum miner.

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Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG). He is at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, and DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies worldwide. As an early and active investor in the industry, Barry established himself in 2012. He founded DCG in 2015 and the company is now one of the industry's most prolific investors, backing hundreds of companies globally. In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments, Genesis, CoinDesk, Foundry, Luno, TradeBlock, and HQ. DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets. Before DCG, Barry was the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. He has been recognized with several awards and honors, such as Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's "40 under 40" list. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. He graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.

Justin Ridgely

Justin Ridgely is the COO at Syndicate. Formerly, Director of Operational Finance at BlockFi, Founder of Reboot Careers, Finance and Strategy Lead at Dissectables, Associate at Credit Suisse.

Kenny Dong

Kenny Dong is an investor at Folius Ventures and previously worked at Sequoia Capital and Northern Lights Ventures. He graduated from Emory University and Yale University.

Sa Wang

Sa Wang is the co-founder of IOST. She has served as the CMO and marketing consultant for many internet companies in China and the United States.

Christina Oshan

Christina Oshan is General counsel at Anagram and previously was co-founder and general counsel at Maul Media. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and Emory University School of Law.

Travis Scher

Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

Kevin Tan

Kevin Tan is the co-founder of IOST. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and has won the National Olympiad in Informatics Gold Medal and the ACM/ICPC Regionals Gold Medal.

Mikhail Avady

Mikhail Avady is the co-founder of Prodia. He is a graduate of the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, the Eisenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Arizona.

Terrence Wang

Terrence Wang is the co-founder of IOST. He graduated from M.S. Princeton University, majoring in Distributed Systems. He has many years of research experience in the field of Cryptocurrency and Distributed Algorithms. He once developed a high-level functional language, Coinlang, which replaced Bitcoin Script at Princeton University.

Taylor Zhang

Taylor is the former head of ecosystem of Mask Network. He holds a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Emory University.