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Li Fan is the Chief Technology Officer at Circle. He is responsible for managing Circle's engineering team. Previously, he has served as CTO and interim CPO at Lime, SVP of engineering at Pinterest, Senior Director of Engineering at Google Inc., and Vice President of Engineering at Baidu, China.
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Josh Hawkins
Josh Hawkins is Senior Vice President, Strategic Positioning & Global Thought Leadership at Circle, a consumer finance startup that uses Bitcoin technology to make money transfers and payments instant, secure, global and free. Circle was founded in 2013 by Internet entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire with $26 million in venture backing from Jim Breyer, Accel, General Catalyst, and Oak Investment Partners. Previously, Josh was Vice President of Marketing at SutherlandGold, a leading tech-focused PR and marketing firm based in San Francisco with clients including Birchbox, Comcast Ventures, CloudFlare, and TOMS. Prior to joining SutherlandGold, Josh was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Brightcove, a leading cloud-based video platform company with software used by thousands media companies and marketers in more than 60 countries. At Brightcove, Josh led global public relations, marketing communications, creative services, and website operations. Josh joined Brightcove in 2005 when it was a pre-revenue, 20-person startup. Over the next eight years, the company grew to 350 employees, with sales and marketing operations in nine countries and revenue of $100 million. In February 2012, Brightcove completed a successful IPO. Josh speaks at industry events and has articles published in Advertising Age and Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly.
Divya Agarwalla
Divya Agarwalla is currently the Head of Product - Mobile at Solana Labs, previously served as the SVP and Head of Product at Circle, and was a Product Manager at Google.
Jerome Wu
Jerome Wu is co-founder and CEO of Space Nation and venture partner of Lighthouse Capital. He was previously President of 360 Games and Vice President of Baidu Games. He graduated from Fudan University.
Hang Yin
Hang Yin is the co-founder and CTO of Phala Network, and he is also the co-founder and head of development of Bitcoin Gold. He graduated from Fudan University.
Zoé (Zora) Meckbach
Zoe (Zora) Meckbach is Vice President and Partner at Phala Network and previously worked at Google. She is a graduate of the International University of Science and Technology, Hult International Business School, Indiana University International University and Fudan University.
Matt Stafford
Matt Stafford is vice president of global ecology at Circle and previously served as head of AI partnerships at Google. He graduated from Oxford University in England.
Nikhil Chandhok
Nikhil is the Chief Product Officer at Circle, responsible for developing accessible and easy-to-use products for all Circle customers. He has extensive experience in developing tech-forward products and software, tailoring advanced mobile devices, streaming video, AI, and Augmented Reality for companies such as Meta, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft.
Sherice Torres
Sherice is formerly Chief Marketing Officer at Circle, and she has more than 25 years of experience in helping cutting-edge brands innovate and engage with customers as a marketing executive at Meta, Google, and Nickelodeon. She has been recognized by the National Diversity Council, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Crain's Business, among others.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.