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Mohamed Fouda is Director of Research at Alliance DAO and a venture partner at Volt Capital, and was previously a research associate at Northwestern University and a partner at zk Capital. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.
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Imran Khan
Imran Khan is a Podcast Host at Good Game Podcast, a Core Contributor for Alliance, and a Co-Founder and Venture Partner for Volt Capital. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business.
Bala Varadhan
In his role at Fidelity Investments, Bala Varadhan is responsible for Avon Ventures. Bala Varadhan graduated from Northwestern University.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Avery Ching
Avery Ching is the co-founder and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet.
Paul Ridley
Paul Ridley is the CEO of Old Street Digital. Additionally, he is the Wholesale Digital Officer at Nomura. He holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Yuan Sun
Yuan Sun is a co-founder of Nest Wallet and was previously a data scientist at LinkedIn and Google. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and Northwestern University.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Roy Lu
Roy Lu is a partner at LongHash Ventures and was previously a partner at HashKey Capital.
Juan Hernandez
Juan Hernandez is the Chief Executive Officer of Setter. Presively he was CEO at BLOCKS and OpenFinance Network. Juan Hernandez graduated from Northwestern University.
Eric Brown
Eric Brown is the Co-Founder and COO of Franklin. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.