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Mike Elias is the Founder at IdeaMarkets. Doing to corporate media what bitcoin does to central banks. Prev Business Development at Global Liquidity.
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Bugra Cakmak
Bugra Cakmak is a co-founder of Cenoa. Prior to this, he was the co-founder and CTO of Bash Biotech Inc., the project manager at HAVELSAN, and a software engineer at Google.
Mike Cagney
Mike Cagney is a co-founder of Figure, a macro trader, a blockchain enthusiast, a kayak fisherman, a wine enthusiast, and a cyclist. As an entrepreneur and macro economist, I have been fortunate enough to have a career that combines my passion for building companies, particularly in the financial services sector, and my love of markets. If you would like to connect with me, please let me know when and where we first met. If you would like to meet me, there are plenty of people I'm connected to who would be able to facilitate an introduction. My specialties include financial services, hedge funds, blockchain, fintech, macro trading, and entrepreneurialism.
Ake
Ake is the director of developer Experience at Chainstack and was previously the head of project management at SIT Alemira. He is a graduate of Chuvash State University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jason Vranek
Jason Vranek is the co-founder and CTO of Puffer Finance and previously was a research engineer at Chainlink Labs. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Rahul Sethuram
Rahul is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and developer with experience in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript web development (Node, React, GraphQL, SQL), Ethereum development, and serving as the CTO of Connext. He is a talented and visionary product-focused entrepreneur with a well-rounded skill set, having worked with both small startups and big companies, leading teams and projects as well as individually contributing. Rahul is also interested in cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, AI, and robotics. His achievements include winning the Status.im Global Hackathon for "Most Potential", being the co-founder of TipdOff (which was acquihired by ColorTokens), and being promoted multiple times to team lead at Tesla Motors.
Amir Forouzani
Amir Forouzani is the co-founder and CEO of Puffer Finance and was previously a research associate at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Cyrus Haghighi
Cyrus Haghighi is a partner at Purechain Capital and previously he was Head of IT at Dfns. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and SAN Jose State University.
Melissa Horton
Melissa Horton is the COO of GEODNET. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Josh Lehman
Josh Lehman is executive director of the Urbit Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Shay Shao
Shay Shao is co-founder and chief Product Officer of Auth3 Network. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Cruz.