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Ramani ‘Ram’ Ramachandran is the CEO & Co-Founder of Router Protocol. Ram, an alumnus of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been a serial entrepreneur in the Fintech and digital assets space for the better part of a decade. He built and ran Asia’s earliest crypto fund returning 4x; built Fordex, the world’s first stable coin DEX and Qume, an institutional-grade crypto exchange. He also launched Asia’s first crypto-index token.
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Ramani ‘Ram’ Ramachandran
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Alessandro Chiesa
Alessandro Chiesa is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at StarkWare, Associate Professor at EPFL .
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.
Rodolfo Gonzalez
Rodolfo Gonzalez is the Partner of Foundation Capital. Rodolfo has an MBA from MIT Sloan’s School of Management, with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship, and degrees in Marketing from ITESM and International Relations from UNAM Mexico.
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.
Sam Fang
Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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.
Chandan Choudhury
Co-Founder of the Router Protocol.
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.
Justin Jow
Justin Jow is the VP Finance at OpenSea.He is ex Uber, Google. He graduated from Harvard University and MIT-Sloan School.
Jean Beaudoin
Jean Beaudoin is the founder and CEO of Metya. He is a graduate of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.