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Nicolas Pinto got his Neuroscience PhD from MIT in 2010 where he was the first to use GPUs for Neural Networks. He also taught GPU Programming to Computational Scientists at Harvard & MIT where he did his postdoc until 2012. He then founded Perceptio in 2014, the first privacy-preserving mobile Deep Learning startup. Apple acquired his startup in 2014, which formed the genesis of all Deep Learning technologies deployed on Apple’s current product line. Nicolas left Apple in early 2018 to focus on the intersection of Blockchain and AI for security, privacy and scalability of these systems. To this end, he recently co-founded Cygni Labs with Thomas France from Ledger, the crypto hardware wallet company.
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David Taylor
David Taylor, co-founder and CEO of etherfuse, previously worked at Apple and is a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Arizona State University.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.
Peng Jia
Peng Jia is the former CTO of Nimble Network and previously worked at Apple. He graduated from Stanford University, McGill University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
Pierre Samaties
Pierre Samaties is Chief Business Officer at DFINITY. He was the former Partner at Roland Berger leading the Global Digital Assets, Web3 and Metaverse practice and the CEO of energy and innovation specialist RWE Middle East.
Robbie Heeger
Robbie Heeger is President & CEO at Endaoment. Formerly, Manager - Production Operations, Technical Producer at Apple.
Nitya Subramanian
Nitya Subramanian is the founder of Capsule. He was the former product lead of Celo. Nitya Subramanian graduated from MIT.
Paul Grewal
Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.