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Richie Lai is Co-Founder, CIO of Bittrex. He was a security engineering specializing in cyber crimes and areas around malware, botnets, and web exploits. He spent 12 years at Microsoft focusing on security where he helped shape many aspects of the program. His next stop was Qualys, where for a year he helped launch their Malware Detection Service. Today he works at Amazon securing their products, network and infrastructure. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, poker, and spending time with his wife.
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Emiliano Bonassi
Angel investor, Web3 researcher, and investor with a strong interest in security; former manager at AWS Cloud and Yearn Finance.
Praneeth Srikanti
Praneeth Srikanti is the Investment Partner & Co-founder at Ethereal Ventures and former Investment Principal at ConsenSys Ventures.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Maika Isogawa
Maika Isogawa is the founder and CEO of Webacy, a venture-backed protective layer for self-custody. Prior to this, she was a cybersecurity engineer for Microsoft and was recognized as a "Forbes 30 Under 30" lister. She attended Stanford University and specialized in artificial intelligence.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Ted
Ted is a co-founder of DILL, and was previously a co-founder and CTO of Secure3, a software engineer at Amazon, and a founding developer at CertiK. He has a master's degree in computer science from Yale University.