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Mani Patel was previously product Director at Simba Chain. She is a graduate of Lamar University and has a master's degree in engineering from Rice University.
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Jake Nyquist
Jake Nyquist is the Head of Protocol at Caldera and Founder at Hook Protocol.Presively, he worked as Software Engineering Intern at Airbnb & Facebook.
Philip Arthur Moore
Philip Arthur Moore is COO at Frontier. Previously at Automattic.
Soups Ranjan
Soups Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sardine. He was previously the Director of Data Science and Risk at Coinbase. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, with a dissertation titled "High-Performance Distributed Denial-of-Service Resilient Web Cluster Architecture".
Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. He founded the company, which has become one of the largest in the Bitcoin space, in June 2012. He is also the co-founder of GiveCrypto, working to build an open financial system for the world. Before founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at AirBNB from 2011 to 2012. He had also previously founded UniversityTutory.com and worked as a software engineer at CarWoo.com.
Phil Hedayatnia
Phil Hedayatnia is the co-founder and CEO of Airfoil. He is a graduate of Rice University and the Hawken School.
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic is Professor at NorthwesternU (CS) & Co-Founder at bloXroute Labs. Computer networking with emphasis on design, measurements, analysis, denial-of-service resiliency, and prototype implementation of protocols and algorithms for the Internet, including blockchains. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic is a Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Northwestern University, where he leads the Northwestern Networks Group. His research interests are in the area of computer networking with emphasis on design, measurements, analysis, denial-of-service resiliency, content distribution, and prototype implementation of protocols and algorithms for the Internet.
Dennis Qian
Dennis Qian is the co-founder at Definitive, having previously worked as a senior software engineer at Coinbase and Tagomi. He graduated from Rice University.
Brandon Iles
Brandon Iles is Co-Founder of Ampleforth and a former Senior Software Engineer at Uber and Google. He spent over 5 years in Google's Search Ranking and Machine Intelligence groups and later worked in Uber's Ranking and Relevance team. He loves the intersection of Systems, Data, and Intelligence. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Rice University.
Robert Feng
Robert Feng is the Vice President of Sales and Strategy at iPeakoin. He was previously an investor at Jinshajiang Venture Capital and an analyst at Deloitte.
Jared Flatow
Jared Flatow is vice president of engineering at Halliday and previously vice president of engineering at Compound. He founded Quasi Convex Union. He grew up in Oceanside, NY (school #9). In 2003, he moved to Houston, TX to study electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. In 2007, he moved to Chicago, IL to work for the Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (though it was then under a different name as part of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center). In 2009, he moved to Palo Alto, CA to join the Data Insight program at Nokia Research Center.