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Ali Aghareza is the co-founder and CTO of Meso.
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Calanthia Mei
Calanthia Mei is the co-founder of Masa Network and previously worked at PayPal and HSBC. She is a graduate of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Mandeep Walia
Mandeep is the Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Circle. He previously held the role of Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Facebook. Mandeep is responsible for leading Circle's compliance and risk management globally. He has held senior leadership roles in global compliance and enterprise risk management at financial services/fintech companies such as PayPal, LendUp, and State Street. Most recently, Mandeep was the Chief Compliance Officer/Head of Enterprise Risk at Novi, Facebook's digital wallet business.
Zahid Shaikh
Zahid Shaikh is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Sardine. He was previously a Senior Product Manager at PayPal and Uber.
Ben Mills
Ben Mills is the Co-founder of Meso. He was formerly with Venmo, Braintree, and Solana Labs.
Lisa Loud
Lisa Loud is the Co-founder and CEO of Fluidefi. She began her career as a Development Manager at Apple, later serving as the Head of U.S. Digital Acquisition at PayPal, before moving on to cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX as the Head of Marketing in 2017. Additionally, Loud served as the Chief Operating Officer of Switzerland-based cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift.
Aly Madhavji
Aly Madhavji is the co-founder and managing partner of Blockchain Founders Fund, and has worked for PayPal and Microsoft.
Coralie Billmann
Coralie Billmann is Vice President of Europe at Circle and was previously Chief Operating Officer of 3S Money Europe. She has also worked at PayPal and Hengfeng Bank.
YY Lai
YY Lai is a Managing Partner at Signum Capital and was previously head of the PayPal Fintech Incubator and Head of Incubation at NTU Ventures. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University.
Derek Moen
Derek Moen is a Product Manager at Royal, with a career spanning from Biotech to Fintech to web3. He has experience developing gene therapies for rare pediatric diseases, driving adoption of explainable AI models for credit underwriting, and harnessing Big Data to help shoppers get the best deals on the Internet. Currently, he is working on OUSD, the leading decentralized, yield-generating stablecoin, and was a Co-Founder of Archimedes.
Kurt Hemecker
Kurt Hemecker is chief executive officer of the Mina Foundation and was previously chief of staff at Diem Networks. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology.