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Manuel Del Aguila Barbero is Head of global growth at Crypto.com. Prior to joining Crypto.com, Del Aguila Barbero spent nine years at IG Group, a world leader in derivatives trading via market-leading platforms and apps with access to over 19,000 global financial markets. While there, Del Aguila Barbero held various marketing roles including Global Head of Acquisition and Media, and Head of Client Acquisition Operations. In these leadership positions, Del Aguila Barbero led the establishment of key growth functions and oversaw the successful development
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Jake Choi
Jake Choi is the CEO and co-founder of Whitewater Labs, and previously he was the head of Korean Marketing at Cyber and the Web3 developer community manager at BNB Chain.
Robin Guyard
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Ru Chiang
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Sebastian Gawenda
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Ricardo Da Ros
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Gary Or
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Rafael Melo
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Jon Russell
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Wil Yeung
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Jonah Lau
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