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Mo Dong is the Venture Partner at IOSG Ventures and the Co-Founder at Celer Network. Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design and teaches full-stack smart contract courses.
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Will Wang
Will Wang is a Founding Partner at TKX Capital, a full-service crypto investment bank in primary and secondary markets. Prior to this, he was the Head of Investment and Business Development at Huobi North America, a leading global crypto trading exchange.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta previously served as Executive Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase and also served as Vice President of Engineering at Lyft. He is a graduate of the University of Mumbai and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Gokhan Er
Gokhan Er is a Managing Director at IOSG Ventures, and previously he was an investment associate at Link Capital and an investment analyst at HTX. He graduated from Peking University and Straits University.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is CEO of Borderless and previously was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fortress Trust Company and Chief Product Officer of Prime Trust. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Peter Piekarczyk
Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nicholas Garcia
Nicholas Garcia is founder and CEO of Fortunafi and founder and partner of Space Whale Capital. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Elliot Feeny
Elliot Feeny is the DeFi partner lead at Fortunafii and previously was Director of business Development at Blockdaemon. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ethan Chan
Ethan Chan is the CEO and co-founder of Allium and previously worked at Microsoft. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.