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Sam O. Yilmaz is the general partner and chief operating officer of Bloccelerate. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Straits University.
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George Kikvadze
George Kikvadze is the Executive Vice Chairman of the Bitfury Group - the world's leading emerging technologies company. Prior to joining Bitfury in 2013, George has worked at GCF Fund, York Capital Management, AFK Sistema and Morgan Stanley. He obtained his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and his MA in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). George is a member of the Europe One YPO Club and is a Founding Member and Board Director of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).
Sam Cassatt
Sam Cassatt is co-founder of LAYER, founder of Aligned, and previously Chief Strategy Officer at ConsenSys.
Brian Tsang
Brian Tsang is the former Head of Product and data at Rarible, who has also been a product manager at Uber and a data analyst at LinkedIn. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Hopkins University.
Bob Xu
Bob Xu is the founder of Questflow and was previously Director of Product Management for Himalaya. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.
Katherine Wu
Katherine Wu is the COO at ENS Labs and venture partner at Archetype and previously served as a senior head of trading for venture capital at Coinbase. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Cardozo School of Law.
Xan Ditkoff
Xan Ditkoff is co-founder of Conductive Research and a partner at Rubik Ventures. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University.
Jehan Chu
Jehan Chu is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Kenetic, Co-Founder of Social Alpha Foundation, Founder of Ethereum Hong Kong Meetup. Fellow, Class 24 at Kauffman Fellows.
Victor Zhou
Victor Zhou is the founder and CEO of Namefi, co-founder of Aleph Crypto, and was previously a Google software engineer. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in automation from Tsinghua University.
Kate Mitselmakher
Kate Mitselmakher is the CEO, Founder & General Partner of Bloccelerate VC. Kate has not only been one of the early investors in cryptocurrencies who has seen a 100x return since 2013, but also a passionate blockchain advocate for the enterprise applications across Fortune 500 companies. During her tenure with world’s largest technology research firm, Gartner, Kate as supported top CIOs of global enterprises across full spectrum of technology strategy & implementation. In the past three years, as a part of Gartner Invest group, Kate has advised numerous venture-based companies and accelerators, such as Alchemist Accelerator. She also worked alongside some of the top investors in Silicon Valley, thereby creating a strong network of top entrepreneurs, VCs, and technology buyers. During her free time, Kate also runs Seattle-based blockchain meet-up and completes her master’s thesis on Blockchain from Harvard University.
Marc Hochstein
Marc Hochstein is the managing editor of CoinDesk. He has more than 25 years of business journalism experience and more than 15 years of management and coaching experience. Marc Hochstein graduated from Johns Hopkins University.