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Paul Stahura is the Lead Advisory Board member and Co-Founder at D3. He is an influential entrepreneur and visionary in the field of domain names and internet infrastructure. As the co-founder and former CEO of eNom and Donuts Inc, Paul revolutionized the domain name industry by leading the expansion of the internet's domain name system. Under his guidance, Donuts became the world's largest registry of new generic top-level domains (.org, .au, .business, .email, and many others). Beyond his accomplishments at Donuts, Paul has served on the board of directors for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Paul holds a Bachelor of Science and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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Kunal Karani
Kunal Karani is the chief Business officer of E Money Network after being the co-founder of Finance Blocks. He also served as CEO and chief strategy officer of Turing Labs. Kunal Karani is a 4-time entrepreneur with over 10 years of technology experience and a deep understanding of multiple sectors. He graduated from Purdue University in the United States.
Jacob McDorman
Jacob McDorman is the co-founder and CTO of Saga and previously was the co-founder of Cellaflora, a software consulting firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Purdue University.
Xiahong Lin
Xiahong Lin is the co-founder of Continue Capital, he founded the blockchain prediction market Bodhi, and worked as a Twitter Android developer.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Yuan Xia
Yuan Xia is the Founder & CEO of Secure3. Previously, he worked for GGV Capital, Airbnb, and Facebook. He is also the Founding Director & CSO of CertiK. He graduated from Purdue University and Yale University.
Mickey Maher
Mickey Maher is currently the Chief Business Officer at Amplica Labs and was previously the SVP of Platform and Blockchain Partnerships at Dapper Labs.
Jaco Koenig
Jaco Koenig was previously the co-founder and CTO of Doshi and is a graduate of Purdue University.
Kristal Gruevski
Kristal Gruevski is the founder and general counsel of Zivoe. He is a graduate of Purdue University and Cooley Law School.
Stephen McKeon
Stephen McKeon is a Partner at Collab+Currency and was previously an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon, specifically researching crypto-assets, securities offerings, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions. Stephen McKeon is a graduate of Purdue University.
Fred Hsu
Fred Hsu is Co-Founder & CEO at D3. With over two decades in the tech industry, Fred has been instrumental in scaling multiple companies with successful outcomes. As Co-Founder and CTO at Oversee.net, he pioneered the standard for many domain-related services including aftermarket brokerage, web hosting, ad placement (parking), and other managed services. Fred also founded San Francisco-based Manage.com, a mobile ad tech platform (acquired by Criteo, NASDAQ:CRTO), and Ember Entertainment, a Seattle-based AAA-game studio (acquired by Gala Games). Fred holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.