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Simon Manka is Head of Growth at Ampleforth. Previously at IOSToken (Binance: IOST), Simon led growth initiatives and helped IOST enter the Top 50 cryptocurrencies as rated by market cap. Simon has a passion for cryptocurrency and helping it achieve mainstream adoption. He holds a BA in history from the University of Virginia, where he played football and lacrosse.
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Jimmy Zhong
Jimmy Zhong is the co-founder of IOST. He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer and Mathematics. He was a former member of Magna Cum Laude 500-startup. He has founded multiple successful start-up companies and successfully exited them. He is also an early Bitcoin/Ethereum miner.
Ori Shimony
Ori Shimony is a developer at dOrg and a venture partner at Portal Ventures. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
Sa Wang
Sa Wang is the co-founder of IOST. She has served as the CMO and marketing consultant for many internet companies in China and the United States.
Kevin Tan
Kevin Tan is the co-founder of IOST. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, and has won the National Olympiad in Informatics Gold Medal and the ACM/ICPC Regionals Gold Medal.
Evan Kuo
Evan Kuo is the founder and CEO of Ampleforth and the founder of SPOT Protocol. A math-loving entrepreneur and former CEO of Pythagoras Pizza, he has extensive experience developing predictive auction products, working with venture capital, and more. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, studying the combination of ME and CS related to robotics.
Jai Prasad
Jai Prasad is the Co-founder at Definitive. Presively he Building TokenAnalyst, Crypto Product Lead at Coinbase, Product & Engineering at SeedInvest, College at UVA. Building the intelligence layer for the decentralized world. Former Co-Founder of EntryWire, Management Consultant at Accenture.
Nick van Eck
Nick van Eck is co-founder and CEO of Agora and was previously a partner at General Catalyst. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
John Zettler
John Zettler is the Staking Product Lead at Coinbase. He was a cofounder of $cbETH and has led a number of products at Coinbase through the years including Commerce (crypto payments) and Asset Hub. Before Coinbase, John founded one of the first art NFT marketplaces (RARE Art) and the first combined crypto/stock trading platform for US investors. In a past life, John worked on Wall Street.
Terrence Wang
Terrence Wang is the co-founder of IOST. He graduated from M.S. Princeton University, majoring in Distributed Systems. He has many years of research experience in the field of Cryptocurrency and Distributed Algorithms. He once developed a high-level functional language, Coinlang, which replaced Bitcoin Script at Princeton University.
Ethan Fast
Ethan Fast is co-founder and CTO of Nash, a non-custodial exchange and management platform for cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has published articles in renowned journals and conferences, such as Nature, CHI, EMNLP, and AAAI. Prior to this, he co-founded Proxino, a web analytics company funded by Y Combinator.