Details
John Morrow is the co-founder and COO of Gauntlet. He was previously an engineering manager at Microsoft and an analyst at Goldman Sachs. He graduated from Cornell University.
Work Experience
Education Experience
Relevance Person
Ethan Feldman
Ethan Feldman is the CTO of Talos. He is responsible for leading the firm's global technology organization. Before co-founding Talos, Mr. Feldman spent 10 years at Broadway Technology working with Talos co-founder Anton Katz. During his time at Broadway, he developed technology for many leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. His technology career started at Microsoft. Mr. Feldman holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Maria Shen
Maria is a general partner on the investment team at Electric Capital. Prior to Electric, Maria was CTO and co-founder of a startup that helped SMBs easily create their supply chains with manufacturers around the world. Prior to that, she worked on search technology at Microsoft, with her features shipped to more than 1 billion devices. Maria received her A.B. in Government from Harvard and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell.ㅤ
Akilesh Potti
Akilesh Potti is the Co-founder of Ritual. Presively he was Partner at Polychain, ML at Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading at Goldman, ML Research at {MIT, Cornell}.
Tarun Chitra
Tarun is building Gauntlet Networks, which aims to make crypto networks and their governance interpretable and statistically sound. Previously, he was a quantitative researcher and engineer, working at the intersection of low-latency, high-performance computing, and machine learning.
Paul Lei
Paul Lei is Head of Protocol Strategy at Gauntlet and was previously at Goldman Sachs. He has a BA in Statistics from Harvard University.
Ben Livshits
Ben Livshits is the Chief Technology Officer of Eclipse. Previously, he was the Vice President of Research at zkSync and the Chief Scientist at clipseBrave. He is also an Associate Professor at Imperial College London, a PhD from Stanford University, and a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. He graduated from Cornell University and Stanford University, has written hundreds of academic papers, and holds dozens of patents.
Adam Spar
Adam Spar is the former head of marketing at Gauntlet. He is a graduate of Cornell University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Kevin Sekniqi
Kevin Sekniqi is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AVA Labs, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a researcher in distributed systems, with a particular focus on blockchain technology, and actively participates in various entrepreneurial projects to develop new paradigms for achieving higher scalability, throughput, and latency in distributed applications.
Ryan Navi
Ryan Navi is the principal of ParaFi Capita. He was previously an investment banking analyst at Citibank. He graduated from Cornell University.
Luka Jankovic
Luka Jankovic is HHead of Product at Galaxy Digital LP. Ex-GoldmanSachs, a NYC-based multi-strategy cryptocurrency and blockchain investment firm with Mike Novogratz. Prior to joining Galaxy, Luka worked at Goldman Sachs in the Hedge Fund Strategies group between 2016 and 2017. He spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 at Goldman Sachs working in private equity and hedge fund groups. Luka graduated Summa Cum Laude in three years from Cornell University in 2015 where he majored in Applied Economics & Management in the Charles H. Dyson School with a triple concentration. In 2016, he completed his Master's degree at Cornell University focusing on behavioral finance.