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Mark Greenberg is global Head of Asset Growth and Management at Kraken and previously worked at the Boston Consulting Group. He graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada.
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David Ripley
Dave Ripley is the CEO at Kraken, a digital asset exchange company. Dave was previously a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group from September 2007 to January 2014. There, they advised Fortune 500 executives on key strategic priorities across multiple industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, and consumer goods. Dave also managed and led direction for several concurrent teams of BCG consultants executing a diverse set of strategy projects. In July 2015, Dave founded Glidera, a company that provides a wallet-to-wallet bitcoin buying experience. Dave was with Techstars from July 2015 to October 2015. Prior to that, they were a product manager at Syclo from July 2000 to August 2005. Dave Ripley has an MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, with a focus in strategy, marketing, and technology management. Dave also has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Shimon Lazarov
As Global Head of Growth at OKX, Shimon Lazarov oversees the company's international user acquisition and retention. He is responsible for a range of marketing channels, including paid, organic, out of home, TV, and affiliates, among others. Prior to OKX, Shimon was Head of Growth at Kraken, CEO of LiveCoach, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BS in biology and business administration from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Ian Ha
Ian Ha is the Co-Founder and CTO of Horizon Blockchain Games, a software developer based in New York. He is passionate about startups, design, and fashion.
York Zhu
Yuhe Zhu is a senior investment analyst at BAI Capital and head of investment at Generative Ventures, and previously worked at Yinuo Angel Fund.
Zeus Chen
Zeus graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada and obtained an MBA from the University of Oxford in the UK. In the past two decades, he has worked in several global investment banks and led a number of cross-border investment and M&A businesses. In addition, he has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy. In 2022, he founded the blockchain vending machine project Stealth Startup, which mainly serves the Southeast Asian market.
Jason Fung
Jason Fung is the CEO of Meta0 and the former Global Head of Gaming at TikTok.
Sunny Ray
Sunny Ray is the co-founder of Unocoin, an India-based startup that aims to make it easy to securely buy, sell, and store bitcoin. He has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, when he directed Business Development for Buttercoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrency trading firms. Sunny operates beyond the level of pure business & always considers relevant social, economic, environmental, political and cultural issues in the local, regional, national & global level. He is incredibly passionate about sales and business development with a drive to create partnerships and opportunities in new geographies. His drive is to work inside emerging and disrupting industries while leveraging his strengths in developing international markets. Since December 2013, he is the President of Unocoin, a leading bitcoin and blockchain company. Unocoin is a platform that makes it easy to securely trade bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto-assets. Unocoin employs more than 100 employees and serves millions of customers. The company is also backed by some of the most reputable investors in the space such as DCG.co (which is backed by CIBC, MasterCard, etc), Boost.vc (backed by Tim Draper, early investor in Hotmail, Skype and Tesla), FundersClub (early investors in Coinbase), etc. He also has a strong interest and international experience in robotics and mechatronic systems. Prior to 2013, Sunny spent nearly 8 years doing sales and international business development in the robotics and mechatronics industry. His clients included Stanford, University of Alberta, Georgia Tech, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Indian Institute of Technology, etc. Sunny is an advocate for and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Club in Toronto. He looks forward to leveraging his extensive international business development experience and applying it towards the new and emerging Canadian Cannabis Industry.
Megha Bambra
Megha Bambra is the co-founder and CTO of Rails and previously was the co-founder and CTO of BlockEQ. She graduated from the University of Toronto.
Andy (Jingwei) Zhao
Andy (Jingwei) Zhao is the Head of Product at VirgoCX. In 2016, Andy worked as an Engineering Trainee at Kunshan Duoling Heavy Machinery Technology. In 2018, Andy worked as a Financial Analyst at Goldenwise Capital Management, where they gained experience in financial analysis.Andy (Jingwei) Zhao earned their Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto, where they studied from 2012 to 2017.