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Ron Bernstein was CEO of Paradex before it was acquired by Coinbase. Fascinated with the convergence of the internet, peer-to-peer trading, sports betting and prediction markets, he founded Intrade in 2000, and Tradesports in 2003. Intrade went on become the world’s leading prediction marketplace until the platform's closure in 2015. Ron became fascinated by "Blockchain" in 2014 and became an advisor to Augur.net in 2015 (a prediction market protocol built on top of the Ethereum blockchain). Next steps were forming Augment Partners, a technology company working to build sound financial business models in the growing world of decentralized trading. The development of digital currencies, more blockchains and decentralized software systems continues to fuel his interest in trading, prediction markets, and token economies, and how they may be applied in the real world to benefit everyday life. AugmentPartners' first commercial product release was a peer to peer, non-custodial erc20 token exchange called Paradex .
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Manan Patel
Manan Patel is the co-founder of Neynar and previously was a senior software engineering manager at Coinbase. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and Nirma University.
Spencer Yang
Spencer Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Gomu.co, an NFT infrastructure company with products such as NFT Hub, NFT APIs, and Collection.xyz. He is also the Venture Partner of Press Start Capital, a fund focused on Web3, gaming, and entertainment. Previously, Spencer worked on product at Coinbase, where he was responsible for retail derivatives, DEX, securities, and wallets. He also led growth, revenue, and operations at CoinMarketCap, and navigated the company's acquisition by Binance. Spencer has founded two companies that were acquired: Hashtag Capital and KeyReply. He is an angel investor and has a background in product management, growth, and operations.
Paul Delio
Paul Delio is the Head of Business Development at CARV and previously served as Business Development Manager at Pocketful of Quarters. He graduated from the University of Southern California.
Allen Ng
Allen Ng is the founder and CEO of EVG, and the co-founder of Kikitrade, a Crypto social investment platform.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Christina Shu
Christina Shu is the Co founder of Arch Labs, a fintech company specializing in derivatives in the crypto market. Shu holds a degree from the University of Southern California.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Boris Ilyevsky
Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is the founder of Aevo and previously worked in software development at Coinbase/NumerAI. He studied computer science at Cornell University, but dropped out after two years.