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Steven Christie joined Binance in January 2022 as Senior Vice President of Compliance, leading Binance's global regulatory policy team to ensure Binance meets its regulatory obligations to the highest standards. Steven will also work closely with global industry leaders, policymakers and regulators to contribute to the development of sustainable regulatory frameworks. Steven has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and regulation as a regulator and policy maker. He spent over nine years with the FCA and 12 years with the Gaming Commission. Prior to joining Binance, Steven worked at the FCA as Strategy and Engagement Manager for the Data, Technology and Innovation division. He was involved in the development of the FCA's encryption guidance and led policy working groups focused on the UK, EU and other countries.
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Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
Sunny Ray
Sunny Ray is the co-founder of Unocoin, an India-based startup that aims to make it easy to securely buy, sell, and store bitcoin. He has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, when he directed Business Development for Buttercoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrency trading firms. Sunny operates beyond the level of pure business & always considers relevant social, economic, environmental, political and cultural issues in the local, regional, national & global level. He is incredibly passionate about sales and business development with a drive to create partnerships and opportunities in new geographies. His drive is to work inside emerging and disrupting industries while leveraging his strengths in developing international markets. Since December 2013, he is the President of Unocoin, a leading bitcoin and blockchain company. Unocoin is a platform that makes it easy to securely trade bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto-assets. Unocoin employs more than 100 employees and serves millions of customers. The company is also backed by some of the most reputable investors in the space such as DCG.co (which is backed by CIBC, MasterCard, etc), Boost.vc (backed by Tim Draper, early investor in Hotmail, Skype and Tesla), FundersClub (early investors in Coinbase), etc. He also has a strong interest and international experience in robotics and mechatronic systems. Prior to 2013, Sunny spent nearly 8 years doing sales and international business development in the robotics and mechatronics industry. His clients included Stanford, University of Alberta, Georgia Tech, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Indian Institute of Technology, etc. Sunny is an advocate for and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Club in Toronto. He looks forward to leveraging his extensive international business development experience and applying it towards the new and emerging Canadian Cannabis Industry.
Rain Long
Rain Long is HashKey Group CHO, formerly the head of human resources at Binance, and also served as CHO at JD.com. Rain Long graduated from China Europe Business School EMBA and Stanford University Mini MBA.
Aya Miyaguchi
Aya Miyaguchi is the Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation and was previously in charge of operations in Japan for the Kraken.
Chase Guo
Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek and Molecule. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.
Yele Bademosi
Yele Bademosi is the CEO and Co-Founder at Nestcoin. Yele is passionate about blockchain adoption at a global level, sharing: “On a high level, my mandate is to leverage blockchain to accelerate Africa’s transition to a sustainable and developed economy. I believe very strongly that blockchain adoption will come from frontier markets that will leapfrog the existing financial systems as well as governance and economic models.”
Ryan Fennelly
Ryan Fennelly is Global Head of OTC Sales and Trading at Crypto.com and was previously Head of OTC at Abra.
Batuhan Dasgin
Batuhan Dasgin is a director of the Celestia Foundation and was previously co-head of Binance Labs and Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap.
Dan Held
Dan Held is a General Partner at Asymmetric and was previously Head of Business Development at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised with the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.