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Ricardo J. Méndez is Advisor at Bindle Systems, Founder of Numergent Limited. Open source, privacy, and advocating for a humanistic focus on tech. Ricardo J. Méndez is a technologist, open source and privacy advocate. He was Samsung NEXT’s Technical Director for Europe, where I’m focused on our Consumer Empowerment thesis - focusing on technology startups which give people back control of their data, attention, intention, and time.
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Chris Kurdziel
Chris Kurdziel is a ex-Partner at Mirana Ventures, where he invests in the intersection of crypto and games. He previously worked on gaming and creative technology investments for Samsung NEXT Ventures, and is currently a Venture Partner and Advisor to Joyance Partners and SocialStarts. Chris has experience helping video creators monetize and distribute their content online, as well as working with the R&D team at Samsung on their smart TV platform. His interests include networked creativity and human-centered computing, and he is passionate about technologies such as Bitcoin and P2P wireless mesh networks.
Gary Coover
Gary Coover is the co-founder and COO of SuperLayer. Before joining SuperLayer, he spent nine years at Samsung Next, the software and services innovation arm of Samsung Electronics, where he launched and scaled new investment vehicles and startup ecosystems globally, and served as the Ventures Operating Managing Director and Silicon Valley GM. he is also an active angel investor, startup advisor, and non-profit board member/advisor for the LT Murray Foundation, and HBM Oncology Foundation. He hold an MBA in Strategy from UC Berkeley - Haas School of Business and previously co-founded an ecommerce startup that was acquired in 2017.
Colin Goltra
Colin Goltra is the former COO at YGG and the Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world's largest Cryptocurrency platform, where he is focused on expanding markets, access, and infrastructure for Crypto throughout the Philippines & Southeast Asia. Colin is an avid collector of NFT-based Crypto Art and an active proponent of Filipino self-empowerment in the Crypto-Metaverse. Along with Gabby Dizon, Colin co-created the Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. His thoughts on the Crypto Art movement have also been featured globally in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times Magazine,' as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications.
Teemu Päivinen
Teemu Paivinen is the founder and CEO of Gevulot and founder of Equilibrium Labs. He graduated from Aalto University.
Michael Repetny
Michael Repetny is co-founder of Marinade Finance and previously co-founder and CEO of Zeerat. He graduated from Prague University of Economics and Business.
Hadley Stern
Hadley Stern is Marinade's Chief Business Officer and was previously the founder of Fidelity Digital Assets and COO of Bloq. He is a graduate of Concordia University. He is committed to pushing technology and financial services forward within regulatory frameworks. From 2021 to 2023 at the Bank of New York Mellon, Stern led the development of the first bank-grade crypto-custody platform as the Global Head of Digital Asset Custody, integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum custody into banking systems under regulatory oversight. At Bloq, from 2018 to 2020, as COO, he significantly boosted revenue and managed operations, overseeing P&L and the product roadmap for a leading blockchain infrastructure company. His earlier role at Fidelity Investments from 2001 to 2018 includes serving as the Founding President of Fidelity Digital Asset Services, launching trading and custody services for digital assets, and leading initiatives in Fidelity's Blockchain Incubator starting in 2014.
Patrick Chang
Patrick Chang is the Founder and at Dispersion Capital. As an early investor in some of the most pioneering web3 innovators and protocols, including Alchemy, Dapper Labs, Flow, Forte, Syndicate, Theta, and Blockstack(STX).Patrick Chang graduated from Columbia Business School.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Tuomas Mäkinen
Tuomas Makinen is CTO at Gevulot, where he previously worked at Equilibrium.