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Shane Fontaine is the co-founder of Hop Protocol and was previously the lead password developer at CoinCircle. Shane was an engineer coming from some of the world’s largest, most powerful defense industry companies such as Boeing and Raytheon. He created the Ethereum engineering meetup in Los Angeles in order to advance and grow the cryptocurrency developer community. He is also a founding member of the UCLA Blockchain Lab team and moderates many of the Ethereum related events in the Los Angeles area. Shane brings a depth of knowledge and understanding of Ethereum and smart contract that can only be attained through practical experience and the years of networking within the ecosystem that someone like him has. He has written many smart contracts and code in the Solidity language, and he provides the knowledge and experience of engineering and trading with the Ethereum blockchain to the team. Shane has years of experience in electrical engineering and an education from the University of San Diego and UCLA.
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Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Shadow. Presively he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Paradigm. Ex-Product at Goldfinch. Before that Alvin Hsia worked at Airbnb. He graduated from UCLA.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Andrew Elkins
Andrew Elkins is the Co-founder at Legends of Venari. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Moran
Charles Moran is the COO of North Island Ventures. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Vanishree Rao
Vanishree Rao is former Head of cryptography at IOHK and former Chief cryptographer at O(1) Labs. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Zeyu Liu
Zeyu Liu is co-founder of Genitive Network. He is a doctoral student at Yale University, holds a master's degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from UCLA.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.