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Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
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Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Michael Casey
Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk's chief content officer. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs. Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna. Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media. Casey owns a small amount of bitcoin.
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Terence Kwok
Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol and was previously the founder of Tink Labs.
Nick Pann
Nick Pann is a co-founder of Sindri and was previously Vice President of Product at TenantBase. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Alvin Kwock
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder & CEO of OneDegree.Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force, CUHK Business School’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Finance, and a founding member of Innovate for Future. Alvin started his career in J.P. Morgan and spent 11 years there, prior to founding OneDegree. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research.
William Foxley
William Foxley is Director of Media and Strategy at Compass Mining and previously worked at Coindesk and Messari.
Leigh Cuen
Leigh Cuen is a reporter at Forbes and was previously a senior reporter at CoinDesk,
Anshum Bhambri
Anshum Bhambri is the co-founder of FanCraze. Previously, he worked for six years at bulge-bracket investment banks in New York and London, and was involved in trading derivatives and structured products, as well as providing corporate finance and M&A-related advice to technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, and eBay. Anshum is a graduate of Stanford University and The University of Chicago, and holds degrees in Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, and Business.
Jason Teutsch
Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, a scalable verification solution for blockchains. He has held postdoc positions with Prateek Saxena at NUS, Trent Jaeger at Penn State and Wolfgang Merkle at Universität Heidelberg. Previously he has served as a US Fulbright fellow to Israel and to Hungary. From 2008-2010 he held a research staff position at CCR-La Jolla, and before that he worked at the RAND Corporation. He fulfilled his dissertation research as a CIC Traveling Scholar at the University of Chicago computer science department under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. He earned a PhD in mathematics from Indiana University in 2007, a DM in composition from the IU School of Music in 2004, and a BA in guitar performance and mathematics from Pomona College in 2000.