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Sandra Persing is the VP of Product, Developer, and Ecosystem Marketing at Circle and was previously the Director of Developer Relations at the Stellar Development Foundation. She graduated from Wellesley College and holds an MBA from Cornell University.
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Evan Park
Evan Park is an Investment Associate (Crypto) at Tribe Capital and also works at Wingbits. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Dante Disparte
Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.
Mind Apivessa
Mind Apivessa is the co-founder of Station Labs, previously held positions at Meta and IBM. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Conner Symmetry
Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
John Wu
John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Robert Bogucki
Robert Bogucki is a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard Digital and previously was a managing director at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Justin B.
Justin B. is the co-founder of WhiteBridge, an experienced full-stack digital entrepreneur specializing in creating and scaling online businesses using paid traffic and the latest marketing strategies. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in Business and Eastern European Studies from University College London.
Alex Marinier
Alex Marinier is Founder & General Partner at New Form. Previously, Alex was an investor at Sand Hill firm DCM Ventures, where he led the firm's expansion into blockchain investing. Prior to that, Alex worked in private equity at Blackstone in New York underwriting secondary transactions. He's a seed investor in Compound Finance, Blockfolio, and Chia among others. A native New Yorker, Alex holds a BSc from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business.