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Joel Dietz is a serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who has helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational channel, and the first academic work on cryptoeconomics. His research focuses on the confluence of blockchain network topologies and swarm intelligence, exploring how the principles of decentralized organizations can be used to drive global innovation. He also works on holonic philosophy, the evolution of jurisprudence, data-driven approaches to innovation, and smart city data architecture.
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Grace Wang
Grace Wang studied at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in software development before co-founding Salsa in 2022.
Ankit Wadhwa
Ankit Wadhwa is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rario. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Alfredo Terrero
Alfredo Terrero is the Co-Founder and COO of IntoTheBlock. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Alejo Pinto
Alejo Pinto is the founder of Pontem Network and previously worked at BlockFi. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Katherine Minarik
Katherine Minarik is chief legal officer at Uniswap, and previously she was vice President of Legal at Coinbase. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
Evan Rosenbaum
Evan Rosenbaum is the Co-founder and Advisor of Genies. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Akshat Vaidya
Akshat Vaidya is the Head of Investments at Maelstrom Capital, former Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Finance at BitMEX。
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.