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Mark Friedenbach is an independent Bitcoin developer, nanotechnology entrepreneur, and space cadet. He is a research engineer and co-founder at Blockstream, and holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Santa Clara University. He has extensive experience as an application developer at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he developed tools for visualizing complex three-dimensional data on commodity hardware and open-source software stacks. He has also served as a Technical Admin for the Physics Computation Lab and Lead Residential Communications Consultant at Santa Clara University.
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Fernando Gouveia
Fernando Gouveia is the founder and Managing Partner of Compa Capital, and previously he was Head of Business Development at Xapo. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University, Stanford University and Pompeu Fabra University.
Vasanth Thiruvadi
Vasanth Thiruvadi is the Head of Finance at Chainforest in Los Angeles, California. He has extensive experience in the finance and accounting field, having obtained a Master of Science in Information Systems from Santa Clara University and a Master's degree in Financial Accounting from the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, he has a Bachelor of Science in Finance, General and Economics from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona.
Jason Wong
Jason Wong is a general partner at Leland Ventures. He graduated from New York University and Santa Clara University.
Aklil Ibssa
Aklil Ibssa is Director of Corporate Development and venture capital at Coinbase and previously was a product manager at LinkedIn. He graduated from Santa Clara University.
Samuel Harrison
Samuel Harrison is the CEO of Findora. He was formerly the Director of Strategic Partnerships at ThunderCore.
Rami Akeela
Rami Akeela is the Co-founder & VP Product & Research at Fabric Cryptography. He also is the Founder & CEO at Crypto and Blockchain Consultancy. Rami Akeela is a Doctor of Philosophy from Santa Clara University.
Thomas Harrison
Thomas Harrison is the founder of Rocko and previously founded Blockrize, which was acquired by Gemini. He graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in finance.
James Seely
James Seely is Head of GTM at Syndicate, where he oversees all sales, marketing and customer operations to increase product adoption and drive revenue growth. He previously served as senior product strategist at Carta. He graduated from Santa Clara University.
Jason Di Piazza
Jason Di Piazza is the Head of Capital Formation at Blockchain Capital LLC. Previously, Jason worked in business development and investor relations at Farallon Capital Management, focusing on creating relationships with institutional investors in the US and Latin America. Prior to that, Jason was a Managing Director at BlackRock, specializing in raising capital for various traditional and alternative investment solutions. Jason also has experience as a Manager at National Semiconductor. Jason holds a Masters in Global Economic History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor's in Political Science from Santa Clara University, and completed coursework at Georgetown University.