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Neil Chopra is the head of banking and asset management at Fireblocks. He previously worked at Ripple. He is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University.
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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.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.
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.
Rich Hauschild
Rich Hauschild is the CEO of Fortress Trust and previously served as COO of crypto IRA provider iTrustCapital.
Bill Lou
Bill Lou is the co-founder and CEO of Nest Wallet and was previously the co-founder of bstreet.io and KL Ventures, as well as a software engineer at Bloomberg and a Draper Dragon analyst.
Jed McCaleb
Jed McCaleb is the founder of Stellar, Mt. Gox and Ripple, and he has been involved in and witnessed many of the major events in the history of Bitcoin. He also founded Vast, an aerospace startup. In addition, he is also the founder of the world's first P2P sharing software eDonkey.
Peter Marton
Peter Marton is the Director of Digital Identity at Fireblocks and was previously the Deputy Director of Virtual Currencies at the New York State Department of Financial Services. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Brad Garlinghouse
Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of Ripple and a member of its Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, he served as the CEO of the file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012, he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL, and before that, he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President. Earlier in his career, Brad pioneered the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.
Brian Fu
Brian Fu is the co-founder of zkLend and graduated from the University of British Columbia.