Andrew Hemingway

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Andrew Hemingway is Head of growth at Hashflow and previously worked at Avalanche and Tron.

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Min H. Kim

Min H. Kim is currently a venture Partner at Hack VC and head of the Halborn ecosystem, and was previously CMO at Polygon, SushiSwap Contributor, and senior Business Development Leader at the TRON Foundation. She graduated from Dartmouth College.

Maofan Ted Yin

Maofan Ted Yin is the former chief scientist at Hyperbolic. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Cornell University.

Varun Kumar

Varun Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Hashflow. He learned about cryptocurrencies through a friend he met at HotHub, and before getting into the crypto industry, he worked in the aerospace sector.

Farid Rached

Farid Rached is the former Ecosystem Growth Manager at Avalanche. Pushing a decentralised future forward by growing the development, exposure and adoption of Avalanche. Formerly at Magic Labs, Fortmatic. Avalanche is the first smart contracts platform that can confirm transactions in under one second, is interoperable with all Ethereum tooling, and capable of throughput orders of magnitude greater than existing blockchain networks (4,500+ transactions/second). It achieves strong safety guarantees without compromising decentralization or requiring sharding and enables millions of independent validators to participate as full block producers. To date, Avalanche’s high performance attracted decentralized projects looking to escape the pain points of slow transaction throughput and settlement speeds of legacy blockchain platforms.

Emin Gün Sirer

Emin Gün Sirer is the co-founder and CEO of AVA Labs and a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on Operating Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems. Additionally, G¨¹n serves as co-director of the Blockchain Alliance IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts), which was funded by the National Science Foundation in 201

John Nahas

John Nahas is the senior vice president of business development at Avalanche. He graduated from the University of Southern California.

Lucas Liu

Lucas Liu is the co-founder of Dmail. He was previously Director of marketing at Sperax and has also worked at Tron and Huawei. He graduated from Macquarie University and the University of Sydney in Australia.

John Wu

John Wu is the President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andresseen Horowitz that is building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. His mission is to make financial services and products accessible to everyone. He is using his experience of more than 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-based solution for the origination, issuance, and trading of financial assets. Previously, John was the CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, which enabled compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Before that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a hedge fund supported by the Blackstone Group. John began his investment career at Tiger Management, a distinguished hedge fund that had $20 billion in assets under management at its peak. Afterwards, he managed a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. John received his MBA from Harvard University and holds a BS in Economics from Cornell University.

NanFeng

Nanfeng is the Co-founder and CEO of Opside. He graduated from Tsinghua University and worked as a core developer for ByteDance, deeply participating in the underlying construction and later iterations of multiple projects.

Kevin Sekniqi

Kevin Sekniqi is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AVA Labs, and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a researcher in distributed systems, with a particular focus on blockchain technology, and actively participates in various entrepreneurial projects to develop new paradigms for achieving higher scalability, throughput, and latency in distributed applications.