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Munaf Ali is the founder and CEO of Phoenix Group and was previously a vice president at Citigroup.
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Sean Glennan
Sean Glennan is the Chief Financial Officer of Hut 8 Mining and was previously a Managing Director at Citibank. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
James Kow
James Kow is head of business development at Bitstamp. Before that he was an executive director at State Street Bank. He was also the head of foreign exchange e-commerce sales at Citibank and he worked at Bloomberg. He graduated from the National University of Singapore.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Thomas Scaria
Thomas Scaria is the Co-founder and CEO of Lore. He previously worked at Polychain Capital as an Entrepreneur In Residence. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Jasper Lewitton
As President of Pantera, Jasper drives and oversees the strategic vision, direction, and operational management of the firm. He has over twenty years of leadership experience across Global Investment Management firms. For close to a decade, he served as Business Unit Head and Senior Leader at Bridgewater Associates, where he managed and transformed the Investment, Client, and Operational areas of the firm. Prior to Bridgewater, Jasper held several senior strategy and operational roles, including Global Head of Strategy at UBS, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at Citigroup, and COO of Citigroup's Real Estate private equity business. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has worked in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jasper has a LLM from the University of Cambridge and Finance, Economics, and Law degrees from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he grew up.
Richmond Teo
Richmond Teo is the Head of stablecoin and payment at World Liberty Financial and former CEO of Asia and a co-founder of Paxos. With over ten years of experience in analyzing and investing in public and private financial technology companies, Rich has a deep understanding of market structure, stock and commodity exchanges, and clearing corporations.
Ian Lee
Ian Lee is the Co-Founder at Syndicate and formerly Managing Director of IDEO CoLab Ventures and General Partner at Digital Asset Investment Company. He focuses on blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, digital currencies, and Bitcoin. Previously, he was the head of Citi's Global Lab Network and led Citi's Blockchain Accelerator. He worked with Citi's innovation labs, venture investing team, business unit executives, and strategic partners to pursue important growth opportunities for Citi that required deep relationships, coordinated investment, and open collaboration. Ian also helped lead Citi's investments and activities in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Ian brings more than ten years of experience in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Citi Ventures. Before joining Citi Ventures in 2014, he helped build the global innovation organization at Deloitte, a $34B professional services firm. He co-founded two startups, including a communications app and social enterprise, and spent more than six years as a management consultant at Monitor-Deloitte. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and double bachelor degrees in Design Media Arts and Economics from UCLA.
Wenyi Zhu
Wenyi Zhu is the founder of Kuddo and was previously head of business development at CyberConnect.
Bijan Alizadeh
Bijan is a leader within the blockchain ecosystem and has a longstanding track record of spearheading blockchain adoption in the MENA region and globally. In 2015, Bijan co-founded Phoenix (part of the Phoenix Group of companies), which is building one of the largest mining farms in the United Arab Emirates. Bijan also co-founded Phoenix VC, a venture capital firm that has successfully invested $10 million in blockchain startups. Following Phoenix VC’s great success, Bijan established Cypher Capital. It is covering venture capital, public markets, nodes, mining, etc., and is recognized globally with its highly successful track record of investments. Bijan believes in working with visionary innovators and outstanding talent to create a holistic blockchain community, whereby the ecosystem can benefit and grow.
Ashwin Khosa
Ashwin Khosa is Vice president of Business development at Ondo Finance and previously worked at Bitfinex and Citi. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.