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Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Will Wang
Will Wang is a Founding Partner at TKX Capital, a full-service crypto investment bank in primary and secondary markets. Prior to this, he was the Head of Investment and Business Development at Huobi North America, a leading global crypto trading exchange.
Manish Gupta
Manish Gupta is the executive vice president of engineering at Coinbase, previously served as vice president of engineering at Lyft. He is a graduate of the University of Bombay and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Matt Sorg
Matt Sorg is Vice President of technology at Solana and was previously a data scientist at Riot Games and co-founder of Concha Labs. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Washington.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fortress Trust Company. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Haichao Zhu
Haichao Zhu is the co-founder of Rooch Network and has worked on Algorand, Solana and other projects.
Peter Piekarczyk
Peter Piekarczyk is the founding engineer of Backpack. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nicholas Garcia
Nicholas Garcia is founder and CEO of Fortunafi and founder and partner of Space Whale Capital. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Elliot Feeny
Elliot Feeny is the DeFi partner lead at Fortunafii and previously was Director of business Development at Blockdaemon. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.