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Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
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Steven Pack
Steven Pack is co-founder and CEO of RockSolid, and was previously Head of Product at O(1) Labs and Product Manager at Cloudflare. He graduated from the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales.
Jake Fitzgerald
Jake Fitzgerald is the co-founder and Head of Product at Lyra, having previously worked at AirTree Ventures and Meta. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and New York University in the United States.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Abbey Titcomb
Abbey Titcomb is Head of Community & Governance at Radicle. Former Associate at UnderscoreVC. Researching crypto-economic models and system designs for commons-based peer production.
Lucy (Sinacola) Lock
Lucy (Sinacola) Lock is the Director of Operations at Strangelove Ventures. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and the Massachusetts College of Mathematics and Science.
Blake Richardson
Blake Richardson is a co-founder of Superform and was previously Head of DeFi at BlockTower Capital. He graduated from George Washington University with a degree in economics.
Vikram Arun
Vikram Arun is a co-founder of Superform and was previously an investor at BlockTower Capital and co-founder of Ledger Group. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
David Hsu
David Hsu is an investor in Breed VC and was previously Community Relations Manager at Nansen.
Michael Bucella
Michael Bucella is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Neoclassic Capital. He presively was the General Partner at BlockTower Capital, and Securities Division at Goldman Sachs.
Chris Lee
Chris Lee is co-founder and partner of TKX Capital and Merkle3s Capital. He has served as partner of Black Hole Capital Group, CFO of Huobi, and CEO of OKX.